Dear fellow PC enthusiasts:

Welcome to another exciting issue of On Disk Monthly!

Many of you have requested a basic text editor. Try Edit
Meister on for size. You'll also find the following
documents on disk as Edit Meister samples: two Bills of
Sale (one for a titled vehicle and one for personal
property) complete with explanations, and more.

Our CGA customers complained about the old PCX viewer (which
was EGA only). So we upgraded our .PCX Viewer program; it
now supports CGA graphics. Be sure to check out the
Halloween and Thanksgiving .PCX graphics. They'll look great
in your party invitations and documents.

You've said you want to see the latest technology in games.
The Catacomb Abyss Sampler (a three-level sample from the
new 18-level Catacomb Abyss game by our Gamer's Edge
division) gives you just that. Since the Sampler requires
EGA or better graphics (which most of you have), we also
included Circuitry (CGA support) on this issue. As
addictive as Tetris or our very own Nucleon (issue #69),
you're going to love Circuitry.

Look for the following programs on future issues of On Disk
Monthly: a label-maker, a paint program that imports and
saves to the .PCX format, a chess program, a free-form
spreadsheet, task-specific databases, games, utilities and
more!

Catch you next issue. Until then...happy computing!

Ronda Faries
On Disk Monthly Product Manager

P.S. We receive lots of news releases, many of which are
about obscure products that very few of us would ever use.
Some of them, however, are worth mentioning. Just remember,
I have not personally seen or used these products and I am
not recommending their purchase. I am, however, reporting
their existence to you.

BETTY CROCKER'S COOKBOOKS - This series of cookbooks on disk
will be available at your local software store around the
end of September. The separate programs include: Betty
crocker's 40th Anniversary Cookbook (over 1,000 recipes with
complete nutritional data); Betty Crocker's Microwave
Cookbook (over 600 quality-tested recipes); Betty
Crocker's Old-Fashioned Cookbook; Shortcut Cooking for the
SmartCook; and Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol Cookbook. These
cookbooks are compatible with LSG's new Micro Kitchen
Companion, a meal planning and nutrition system. PC and
Windows versions are available. The series is produced under
license from Prentice Hall.

COLLEGE PLANNER - Designed by U.S.News & World Report and
Wintergreen Software of New Orleans, "College Planner" is
designed to help college-bound students through the
overwhelming process of finding the right school from a
database of 1,377 colleges and universities. It is available
in both a personal version for students and an expanded
Professional Educators' Edition.

AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY - Available for DOS, Windows,
and the Macintosh, the American Heritage Dictionary gives
you complete definitions, spelling, pronunciation, parts of
speech, proper usage, hyphenation, idioms, sample sentences
and word origins for over 116,000 words. Use its "Wildcard"
feature to solve word puzzles and anagrams. You'll also
receive the complete Roget's II Electronic Thesaurus.
Marketed by the Writing Tools Group in Cameron Park, CA.

SPORTS ILLUSTRATED CD-ROM SPORTS ALMANAC - The nation's only
sports newsweekly has joined with sister company Warner New
Media to produce the first interactive CD-ROM reference
guide of statistics and sports coverage. Search through
nearly 10,000 sports facts with a single click of a button.
Later this fall, look for a second title, Sports Illustrated
Gold Rush, a new CD-ROM game based on the history, athletes
and events of the Summer Olympics. Available through
software, consumer electronic, music and book stores.

DESKTOP LIBRARY - This new Walnut Creek CD-ROM includes the
complete text of 2,334 works of literature. This fully
indexed disc is loaded with ASCII files that are compatible
with virtually every computer platform, including IBM-PCs
and compatibles, Macintosh, Amiga and Unix. In addition to
hundreds of novels and works of fiction, it includes the
complete text of the Bible, Koran and other religious works,
as well as important speeches, historical documents, etc.
Available from Walnut Creek CDROM, Walnut Creek, CA.

ACCU-WEATHER FORECASTER - Update your program as often as
you like by downloading live weather information from
Accu-Weather, the world's largest commercial weather
service. The telecommunication is fully automated and the
displays and user-interface are designed to be easily used
by people who are not meteoroligists. The information
available includes: surface maps, radar maps, saellite
photos, graphs and charts, aviation forecases, emergency
bulletins, current weather and forecases for cities all over
the world, etc. Developed for IBM-compatible and Macintosh
computers by Metacomet Software, it is distributed by
Software Toolworks of Novato, CA.

HOMEBOUND ASSISTANCE - Computer Business Services Inc. of
Sheridan, IN, has just introduced a computerized telephone
monitoring service that automatically calls and checks on
the homebound up to three times a day. This new service is
now operating in over 50 cities and is projected to be in
over 500 cities by the end of 1992. The computer also makes
wake up calls, calls to remind people to take their medicine
and checks on latch key kids for their working mothers.

CONGRATULATIONS COMPUTER PAPER - Micro Format, Inc. has
introduced a line of specialty computer paper products
called Congratulations "Designer Series" Computer Paper.
This laser paper has a unique ambigram design that can be
read from any direction and can therefore be used for either
portrait or landscape printing. Available from Banner Band
Paper Product distributors. Banner Band is based in
Wheeling, IL.



