CompuNotes Notes from The Cutting Edge of Personal Computing September 5, 1997 Issue 97 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= To subscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com SUBSCRIBE COMPUNOTES-L FirstName LastName To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to listserv@peach.ease.lsoft.com SIGNOFF COMPUNOTES-L +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CONTENTS My Notes: 1=> A Plea from the Ether 2=> This Issue's Winner! Reviews: 3=> Product: Lighthouse - game/adventure Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com 4=> Product: Adobe Persuasion 4.0 - business/presentations Reviewed By: Dennis MacPherson, mailto:pctc@richmond.infi.net 5=> Product: Slopestyle - CDROM/How To Reviewed By: Jaz Garewal, mailto:seelebrennt@theriver.com 6=> Product: Ascend97 for Windows95: Franklin Day Planner - business/productivity Reviewed By: Gerry Vratanina, mailto:gvratani@interaccess.com 7=> Product: Dissolution of Eternity, Quake Mission Pack #2 - games/action Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com --- BEGIN ISSUE 1=> A Plea from the Ether, Wade Neigel, mailto:wade.neigel@pembbs.com Wade has a very simple request. Can anyone help him out? Send your answers directly to Wade: "This section is a request to anyone who might be able to help find driver software for my tape back-up drive. I have a CaliPer (California Peripherals) internal, scsi tape back-up drive, model CP150. CaliPer used to be a "Nakamichi Affiliated Company", but Nak cannot help me as CaliPer has not been around for a few years. Anyone having one of these units, and would be willing to attach a copy of the drivers to a message to me, I would be very much in debt to. If the drivers are too large to attach, I would be willing to pay postage to Canada, for copies of these drivers. Thanks in advance Wade Neigel, mailto:wade.neigel@pembbs.com ---------------- Take a Few Moments to Read ------------------- VirtualBusiness.News "Hard core 'How-To' for Small Business" Improve cash flow, reduce expenses, save time, money and headaches. If you're a businessperson who wants practical info to help boost your productivity and profits without a lot of hype, VBNews is for you. Software reviews, networking tips, and feature articles about every phase of business, from people who've been there. No theory. No bizopps. And no trouble finding the articles between the ads. Subscribe Today! Send any email to mailto:VBNews@just-business.com ---------------- Take a Few Moments to Read ------------------- 2=> Winner! This week's winner: davidp@LYNNET.COM. 3=> Product: Lighthouse - game/adventure Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Requirements: 486/66, 8 MB RAM, SVGA, 2x CDROM, sound card Tested on: Pentium-166, 24 MB RAM, Nitro 3D, 16x CDROM, 16bit sound card, Win95 MSRP: $49.95 There is little doubt that Myst was the best-selling adventure game of all time. So successful, in fact, that it has spawned a whole host of clones in the same manner that Doom did. Myst even inspired a parody, Pyst. Now Sierra has bowed in with their Myst- clone, Lighthouse. Although Myst heavily influences the design and gameplay of Lighthouse, Lighthouse is a better-than-average adventure game that deserves better than to be known as simply a Myst-clone. The CDROM for Lighthouse includes versions for DOS, Win 3.1, and Windows 95. The only difference between the three versions is that the Windows 95 version takes advantage of the DirectX drivers for sound, providing enhanced sound effects that do a lot to enhance the game. Installation is very quick and easily performed, as is the standard with most games especially those from Sierra. The game starts with an eerie sound track and lightning crashes; you play a short intro that gives you the background to the game and then sit and watch the opening sequence. This opener, that seems to take its cue from the James Bond movies (an opening scene leading to the title song), is a unique approach to getting the player started and hooked into the game. The opening cutscene is a very impressively done, almost certainly Hitchcock-inspired, drive down a sea cliff-side highway to the Lighthouse. Wow! I think most adventure game players will be hooked almost instantly; both my wife and I certainly were. Since my wife is an adventure game nut, I recruited her to help with reviewing the game, especially as far as the quality and playability of the game. The game's Myst-like look is apparent from the start, although the relatively static scenes at each location are far more animated than they ever were in Myst. In the opening scene, for example, you can see the lighthouse beacon sweeping across the sky and the lightning sparks. The graphics to the game are certainly top-notch and well done, as are the superb sound effects. Lighthouse is very good in one of the most important aspects of any good game: suspension of disbelief. Lighthouse can easily draw you in and have you playing for quite some time. The premise of the game is fairly simple. You play the part of an aspiring writer who lives down the Oregon coast from an eccentric scientist Dr. Krick and his baby girl, who live in an abandoned lighthouse. Dr. Krick has rebuilt the lighthouse so that the beacon operates on stormy nights; but he is also very busy building something very unusual (or usual, if you play lots of these adventure games): a portal to another world. One stormy night he leaves a frantic message on your answering machine: something terrible is happening and he must try to stop it; he wants you to watch after his daughter. You arrive at his house just in time to see a mysterious creature called the Dark Being steal his daughter and disappear into the portal. Now what do you do? Lighthouse is among a growing trend of adventure games that feature non-linear storylines and variable endings. The instructions with the game indicate that up to 16 different endings are possible! These endings are decided by a number of decisions made during the course of the game. The first decision is the one I outlined above - do you follow the Dark Being through the portal or not? If you do, the Dark Being knocks you out and you reappear in a strange new world; if you don't the portal closes and you are left alone in the lighthouse. I'm not sure yet how this decision affects the outcome of the game yet, but I'm certainly eager to find out! If you've played Myst and a number of other adventure games than you are probably adequately prepared for the puzzles in Lighthouse. Players new to adventure games, however, will almost certainly find that the puzzles are very difficult and the answers are rarely intuitive. Sierra seems to have realized the difficulty of the game; a hint feature is included with the game as well as a Player's Handbook that provides more specific help towards the various puzzles in the game. There are also some walk-throughs available on the Internet (I found one at the Games Domain at http://www.gamesdomain.com). Certainly there is more than enough challenge here even for the most seasoned adventure gamers. Lighthouse is a very good game; I would highly recommend it to anyone who likes adventure games. If you don't like adventure games, or if you hated Myst, then by all means bypass Lighthouse. I am a little more hesitant to recommend it to new gamers although I would with the caveat that they realize that many of the puzzles are likely to be frustrating and that this isn't something you can complete overnight. Lighthouse is certainly as good as Myst and a worthy addition to the genre. Sierra On-Line P.O. Box 85006 Bellevue, WA 98015-8506 206-644-4343 Ratings: Installation/Ease of Use: Gold User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: Those who love solving puzzles wrapped in the context of an adventure story! 4=> Product: Adobe Persuasion 4.0 - business/presentations Reviewed By: Dennis MacPherson, mailto:pctc@richmond.infi.net Reviewed on: P133, 32 MB RAM, Windows95 Requires: 486, 8 MB RAM, Windows 3.x, 20 MB HD space, 8-bit graphics, CD-ROM Recommended: Pentium, 16 MB RAM, 40 MB HD space, 16-bit graphics, 8-bit sound MSRP: $395 Want a top-shelf, high-end, best-of-breed presentation program? Get Adobe Persuasion 4.0. It comes on two CDs with two small but concise manuals. One CD contains the Persuasion programs (for both the Macintosh and Windows environments) as well as Adobe Type Manager, Acrobat Reader and Distiller, Postscript printer drivers, Persuasion Player, Quicktime, Adobe Chart, Adobe Table, and a PowerPoint file converter. The second CD contains over 500 editable clip art files, free movies and sounds. As expected, installation was a breeze. I installed the program without opening the GETTING STARTED manual and encountered no problems. The manual does include easy-to-follow instructions, however, for installing Persuasion on a Mac, on a PC in Windows, and on a network. If you need to install the program on a machine that does not have a CD-ROM, there are instructions for copying the included compressed files onto floppy disks. The GETTING STARTED manual also contains brief sections about Persuasion's new features and improved performance; a section on using Type Manager to add or remove fonts; and a section I found particularly useful on how to convert PowerPoint 4.0 presentations to Persuasion's format. Like most conversion routines, many features and attributes of the original format could not be converted. Text formatting, for example, like bold, italics, and line spacing did not come over. Before I go too much further, let me make this very important point very clear to everyone: Adobe Persuasion 4.0 is not an easy program to learn. If you're thinking about switching from Microsoft's PowerPoint or Lotus' Freelance, be prepared for an arduous learning experience. For example, there are no convenient little "tool tips" when you pass your mouse across an icon, and there are many obscure palettes containing bizarre little symbols with many hidden capabilities. I found the USER GUIDE (297 pages in length) quite helpful and referred to it often. There's also an exact duplicate of the GUIDE on the CD, which is easily read using Adobe Acrobat. The GUIDE contains fifteen well-written chapters that help explain how to use the many features of the program. The chapters include the following topics: how to create, edit, and deliver a simple presentation; how to import text and graphics; how to work with colors, layers, and transitions. The default working screen in Persuasion displays six distinct palettes that provide access to the various tools used to create a presentation. A Toolbox contains the main drawing tools; line styles are selected from a Lines palette, text from a Text palette, and color from a Color palette. A Layers palette has tools for positioning objects and a Nudge palette has tools for minute adjustments to the location and position of those objects. A vertical column of icons is displayed in the upper right hand corner of the Slide view for easy selection and navigation between views. Several pop-up menus appear along the bottom of the Slide view for changing the viewing magnification of a slide and for moving between and among different slides in the presentation. Rulers across the top of the screen and down the left side aid in precise positioning of the mouse pointer. A "slide" in Persuasion 4.0 is defined in terms of three separate layers: a background layer for graphic elements, a master layer for positioning placeholders and graphics on a template, and a slide layer for the content you enter on the screen. In order to really master the immense power of this program it is necessary to learn how to use the nine different views it provides for manipulating slides. The Outline view is similar to the one found in Microsoft's PowerPoint and is used to enter and edit information. One of the easiest features of Adobe Persuasion to learn to use and perhaps the most useful is the procedure for taking your slide presentation on the road. When you know you're going to be using a computer that does not have Adobe Persuasion installed, you simply take a copy of Persuasion Player along with your presentation on a floppy disk. Then, you copy the Player file and your special presentation file onto the system you'll be using to give the presentation and you're ready to go. One of the slickest features of Adobe Persuasion is its ability to create documents for presentation on the World Wide Web. It allows you to add links on a slide for quick jumps to other slides or to other URLs. To present your slides on the Web, you simply export them to Adobe's PDF format. PDF files retain every element of the original, including special fonts, because Persuasion embeds the fonts you use on a slide right into the slide. Since the Acrobat Reader is readily available on the Internet. I like Adobe Persuasion 4.0 very much. In fact, I like it so much that I've decided to convert all my presentations from PowerPoint to Persuasion. Sorry, Bill. Adobe Systems Incorporated 345 Park Avenue San Jose, CA 95110-2704 CompuServe: ADOBEAPP AOL: ADOBE MSN: ADOBE 5=> Product: Slopestyle - CDROM/How To Reviewed By: Jaz Garewal, mailto:seelebrennt@theriver.com Reviewed on: Pentium 200MHZ, 64 MB RAM, 8X CD-ROM, Windows 95 Requires: 486SX/33MHZ, 8 MB RAM, 2X CD-ROM, 256 Color VGA Monitor, 16-Bit Sound Card, Windows 3.1 Slopestyle is a non-interactive CD-ROM that teaches every aspect of snowboarding. Slopestyle is easy to use and well designed. This CD not only teaches snowboarding, it also instructs one on how to pick the right gear, get on a ski lift and other things beginning snowboarders need to know. There is nothing to install to run Slopestyle. The program starts running as soon as the CD is put in the CD-ROM drive if you have Windows 95 and Autoplay. Slopestyle's lessons are accessible through the 'Learning Cube'. The Learning Cube is a cube with four sides accessible to the user. One side is a button that brings up the credits for the CD, another brings up the options. The third side brings up a video introduction. The fourth side is the main lesson side. The fourth side has three rows, beginner, intermediate and advance. In each of the rows is three squares each representing a chapter. When a chapter square is clicked an intro. video to the chapter plays. Each chapter has three lesson sections. Lessons can be viewed either as text or as instructional video segments. The text and the video are presented in a small window with buttons surrounding the window. The three buttons just below the window are 'Next Page', 'Play/Pause Music' and 'Previous Page' for text, while the video has 'Rewind', 'Play/Pause Video' and 'Fast Forward'. For both text and video there is a 'Context Sensitive Help' button in the upper left corner, while in the upper right corner there is a 'Back' button. In the lower right corner there is a 'Flip' button which flips between the text and video versions of the lesson. The lessons are very detailed. One beginner chapter's section goes through the importance of snowboard boots and the different types of boots and their uses(for example, hard shell boots are used by alpine snowboarders because of the ankle support and good board control provided by the boot). The same chapter also has a section that talks about the different types of snowboards: Alpine(good for racing) boards, freestyle(good for tricks) boards and free ride(good for all terrain snowboarding) boards. The remaining chapters in the beginner row deal with the first time on the slope(how to use a chair lift, how to move with the board attached to your feet, etc.) and turning. The intermediate and advance rows delve more into actually snowboarding. The intermediate row has a chapter on carving, catching air and performing intermediate tricks. The advance row's chapters are on power carving, and two are on advance tricks. During one lesson, a glossary is mentioned which, according to the lesson, includes a height and weight chart that can be used to help find the right snowboard for the user. I searched for this glossary, which I could not find in the program or in the manual. The videos range from informative (shots of different types of snowboards) to impressive (video of a snowboarder power carving down a steep slope). The video quality is pretty good, but somewhat grainy. The voices of the narrators are distinct and clear. The voices don't take on the persona of the stereotypical snowboarder(`Snowboarding kicks, dude!'), rather, they have a nice, instructional tone. The music isn't to my liking. The music is basically bad grunge music that even your alternative radio station would hesitate to play. Slopestyle is a great program for anyone who wants to learn how to snowboard or anyone who has snowboarded before and wants to learn more about the sport. This instructional CD-ROM can help the complete beginner or the intermediate snowboarder, but advanced snowboarders probably will not find it too useful. L3 Interactive, Inc. Installation: Gold User-Friendliness: Gold Quality: Gold User: Beginning/Intermediate snowboarder 6=> Product: Ascend97 for Windows95: Franklin Day Planner - business/productivity Reviewed By: Gerry Vratanina, mailto:gvratani@interaccess.com Reviewed on: Pentium 166, 32 MB RAM, and Windows95 Very well put together package. As is typical of Windows95 software packages, it does the customary auto install upon insertion of the CD-ROM. If installing from floppy diskette, the usual File, Run, A:Setup routine should Be utilized. The package contains the CD-ROM with installation for Windows95 and Windows 3.1. It is also provided on five 3 1/2 floppy diskettes as well. The documentation consists of a booklet titled Up and Running Guide, the Ascend97 User's Guide, a registration card and a Quick Reference Card. The opening 'mood' music is very pleasant, as are the opening graphics. Selecting the Installation button continues the install process. Upon entering the first selection screen, you can choose which options to install. If this is your first time installing this package, as opposed to upgrading a previous version, I suggest that you DO NOT install the Ascend v5.0 conversion. This little annoyance would prompt you to specify the location of the previous version's databases. In addition, if you select the Pilot option, the next screen has you specify a Com Port. Unfortunately, the key selection does not take you back to the previous selection screen should you so choose. The complete installation, not including data files, takes approximately five Megs of disk space. There is not an option to run this program from the CD itself. Due to the nature of this product, the licensing allows you to install the program on more than one machine. However, you may NOT run this except on one machine at a time. This allows you to make use of a laptop or a home and work place computer system and just transport your data between them. The installation creates a folder containing three icons, the main Ascend97 icon, a Tools and Utilities icon and the common Readme icon. The Tools and Utilities icon provides you with several nice functions. Backing up and restoring your database are but two of the functions available here. Encrypting and decrypting the database for security purposes as well as compacting and cleaning up the database are additional features. The Repair Database is an invaluable tool should anything happen to your databases. The Ascend Desktop, upon opening the program, gives you access to run all of the Ascend functions. Ascend97 gives you all the functionality of the loose-leaf binder version of the Franklin Day Planner. You have a Daily Task List, an Appointment Scheduler, Daily Record of Events, an easy to use Address/Phone book, a Personal Journal, and you can also keep a booklet of personal favorite quotes as well. The Prioritized Daily Task List function helps you to focus daily activities in order to be more productive and accomplish goals and tasks that are important to you. This Task List lets you write and prioritize a list of tasks every day. You can also link a task to a contact in the Address and Phone Book. You can also create repetitive tasks for activities that you do on a regular basis. You can also forward tasks to a date in the future. A Pop Up calendar with the current date highlighted allows you to select the Daily task list simply by clicking on the date in question. The Appointment Schedule option keeps track of your busy day. Appointments can be viewed in a daily, weekly or monthly format. With this module you can create regular daily appointments, repeat appointments, and attach notes and alarms to your appointments. There is also a Personal Productivity Pyramid function incorporated via the Values and Goals option. This relates back to the Franklin Time Management System that is the primary concept of this package. You can build a Personal Productivity Pyramid that reflects your own values and goals as well as create daily tasks that will appear in your daily task list based on these goals. The Address and Phone Book option allows for the default of Business and Personal phone books with an option to add additional categories to fit the individual user's requirements. It helps you keep track of all the important people in your life, business associates, family, friends, and acquaintances. You can keep categorized lists of addresses and phone numbers as well as dial these numbers using a modem attached to your computer. The Daily Record of Events helps you to keep track of the details and accomplishments of your day. These events can then be quickly reviewed at the click of a button. The Journal option allows you to record important events in your life. The Index function within this Journal gives you quick reference to any special entries that you have made. The Red Tabs option can be used to simplify and organize important files. You can use this option to create lists and notes that would otherwise waste your time searching through your desk for. Important date categories are another customizable function. Birthday and Anniversary are the two defaults but more can be added as required. An added feature is a Favorite Quotes module that allows you to store your favorite quotes for speeches, reports, or even personal inspiration. You can also display a different motivational quote upon program startup. Another feature is the Turbo File. Turbo files are used to gather outside information into an on-line database. Upon creation, turbo files create a tracking mechanism based on category, keywords, location, and type. This allows for more reliable and faster access to important data. All in all, I think that this package is very well put together and is an invaluable tool for the computer user community. It also provides an excellent information vehicle for all of the "Road Warriors" out there to improve and/or maintain their busy schedules. Franklin Quest Co. 2200 West Parkway Blvd. Salt Lake City, Utah 84119 (801)-975-9999 mailto:support_win@franklinquest.com 7=> Product: Dissolution of Eternity, Quake Mission Pack #2 - games/action Reviewed By: Doug Reed, mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Requirements: Pentium, 16 MB RAM, 4x CDROM, soundcard, Quake(registered) Dissolution of Eternity is the second in the Mission Pack series of additional missions for Quake. The first was Scourge of Armagon, made by Hipnotic Interactive & distributed by Activision, featured new monsters, traps, weapons, and 15 new levels that were some of the hardest I've ever played. The result was an extraordinarily successful product that improved on the original. Now Activision and Rogue Entertainment have released Quake Mission Pack #2 - Dissolution of Eternity, in an attempt to see if they can improve even further over Scourge of Armagon. I'm here to tell you that they have succeeded; Dissolution of Eternity is a must-have for anyone who cannot get enough of first-person action games. Installation of Dissolution of Eternity (hereafter referred to as DOE) requires that you already have the registered version of Quake installed on your computer. DOE upgrades Quake to version 1.08 (Scourge of Armagon upgraded Quake to 1.07), an upgrade that is neither available separately nor compatible with saved games from version 1.06 - so be certain you don't want to replay any old games before you install. Games from Scourge of Armagon are also not compatible. The reason for the upgrade is that several new features are added that are not part of the original game - including new monsters, traps, weapons, and environment. The biggest change to the environment is the addition of earthquakes- as the manual states it - "now the player can literally quake!" What else is new? There are fewer new weapons than Scourge - lava nails are the primary new super weapon, along with plasma bolts. Lava nails are armor piercing 'hot shots' - in other words, enhanced versions of the original nails - that do substantially more damage. If you thought nail guns were lethal before - boy are you in for a surprise. Other "new" weapons include multi-grenades and multi-rockets and plasma cells for the Thunderbolt. The best way to describe the multi-grenades and rockets is to picture the old MIRV (multiple independent reentry vehicles) of the ICBM missiles. Remember those? One missile carried multiple warheads - that split off during reentry and thereby hitting more targets. Well, that's how multi-grenades and rockets work. The bad news is that Ogres & Death Knights carry them too! The plasma cells for the Thunderbolt shoot as a plasma energy ball that grounds out on target, shooting off tendrils of lightning. The description sounds more impressive than what you will actually see - although the effect of the plasma ball is deadly enough. Two new powerups are available as well - the anti-grav belt and the power shield. The anti-grav belt should be self-explanatory, while the power shield serves not only as a shield but as a ram for pushing opponents around (like off a cliff, for example). Countering you are no less than the normal Quake monsters and 8 new monster types as well as a "surprising" end-game boss (a Dragon!). Several of the new monsters are toughened versions of old ones - multi-grenade ogres, hell spawn, wraths and Overlords. When I first read the descriptions I thought wraths and Overlords were simply newer versions of Scrags. Boy was I wrong! Wraths are ghostly apparitions, slowly approaching but firing red plasma balls with deadly precision. Your first encounter with an Overlord is at the end of the 1st episode - and you won't soon forget it! Overlords are six-armed floating tanks that can teleport and really eat you for lunch. Also making their first appearance in DOE are the electric eelfish, statues, phantom swordsmen, and Guardians. These new monsters also appear to feature improved AI, making them much tougher opponents even without the extra ordinance. New environmental hazards include pendulums, lightning shooters, lava nail shooters, and buzz saws. Needless to say, there is plenty new of new nasties in DOE! DOE contains another 15 new levels, split into 2 episodes called Hell's Fortress and The Corridors of Time. Rogue has constructed the episodes such that you must play them in linear fashion - no explanation why, but they did. They have also included new multiplayer games for Deathmatches - including Tag & Capture the Flag. Three new elements have been added solely for multi-player games - vengeance spheres, random powerup respawn, and the grappling hook. DOE is tough! This is not for the faint-of-heart or those new to action games. Completion of DOE is not easy, by any stretch of the imagination (unless you cheat of course, which makes you a real wimp!). If you found Quake or Scourge of Armagon to be tough going, you should probably think twice before getting this Mission Pack. Even the early levels are loaded with Death Knights, Fiends, and Shamblers. On the other hand, considerably more thought has to be applied - you can't just simply run around guns blazing and expect to get anywhere - you'll quickly be out of ammo and dead. I am very impressed with the challenge of completing the single player portion of the game - this is by far the toughest challenge I've seen in a commercial add-on. If you like Quake and Scourge of Armagon and just can't get enough (like me), than you will love Dissolution of Eternity. If you're tired of the genre or prefer somewhat less of a challenge, look elsewhere! For me this is a great addition, but I am aware that this is not everyone's cup of tea (Wimps!). As with previous releases, it is incredibly violent and bloody and is definitely not suited for children. For me the attraction is a good chance to relax and vent a little (especially after a bad day at work!) in an incredible immersive environment. This latest release in the Mission Pack series is yet another winner. Whether or not there will be more is uncertain; Hexen II is due out soon and will also be distributed by Activision (seems they are getting all of id's business these days). Screenshots from Hexen II promise to take the Quake engine to an even higher level. 'Till then, I'll be fragging the bad guys in DOE! Activison/Rogue Entertainment P.O. Box 67713 Los Angeles, Ca 90067 (310) 479-5644 CompuServe: GO GAMEPUB in the Game Publishers Forum B Prodigy: ACTI10B Genie: ACTIVISION American OnLine: ACTIVISION mailto:support@activision.com Activision BBS: (310) 479-1335 Installation/Ease of Use: Gold medal User-Friendliness: Gold medal Quality: Gold medal User: Quake fans who just can't get enough, like me! +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Managing Editor: Patrick Grote -- mailto:pgrote@i1.net Assistant Editor: Writer Liaison: Doug Reed-- mailto:dr2web@sprynet.com Archives: ftp://ftp.uu.net/published/compunotes/ Website: e-mail: mailto:notes@compunotes.com fax: (314) 909-1662 voice: (314) 909-1662 +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= CompuNotes is: Available weekly via e-mail and on-line. We cover the PC computing world with comprehensive reviews, news, hot web sites, great columns and interviews. 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