1995 Catalog of Public GS182 - B_owling GS omalnIt HS20 & HS21- Dinosaurs Shareware isks for the II S GS96 - 3200 Colors nly $3.50 per disk GS187 - Sound Programs Why pay more? GS206 - Animal Clip Art MAIL ORDERS TO: ORDER LINE BIG RED COMPUTER 423 NORFOLK AVE (402) 379..4680 NORFOLK, NE FAX LINE 68701 .. 5234 (402) 379 ..3361 "f' = SHAREWARE PRODUCT WHY PAY MORE? TECH SUPPORT AVAILABLE The Big Red Computer Club has a large Documentation: Because these programs library of public domain, freeware, and ,ue public domain Uley do not have printed shareware Apple software. For as lillIe as documentation. M,my of the disk volumes $2.50 per disk, you can obtain copies of do include short instructions on the disk as these programs. This provides an inexpen­ how to operate the prognuns. sive and easy way to add programs to your personal software library. Guarantee: All programs in the library m'e believed to be either public dOllUlin or freeware except those which arc specifi­ cally listed as shareware. Sincc thcsc progrmns arc public domain, frecware, or II sharewm'c, all prognuns arc copied AS IS. We cannot guarmltee their performance. Public Domain & 3.5" Disks: The disk volumes listed on pages 3 through 20 of this catalog are 3.5" Defective Disks: If you receive a disk Shareware disk volumes. All of the programs on which has I/O errors mId you arc unable to these disks are for the Apple IIGS owners. copy the disk, you may return it and we Software Most of the disks contain several different will replace it with a new version of Ule programs. You will need 1.25 Megs of smne disk volnme. for memory and System 5.0.4 or higher to run the programs. Most ofthe disks do Shareware Disks: Shilrew,u'Cis copy­ Apple IIGS not include the GS operating system. You righted software. The author gnmts the Computers must first boot the GS system disk before user the right to copy mld distribute thc you can use many of the programs. Some softwm'e within certain restrictions. The of the programs are hard drive installable author also grants the user limited usc of and others are not. Desk accessories and the program (typically for a tryout period Inits must be installed on your System of a week to a month), after which time Disk before you can use them. A few of the user is asked to pay the auUlOr a fee the games require a joystick. (buy the progrrun) orerase Ule disk. Usually when the user buys the so1'twm'e by sending the fee, theiauU1()r sends the user the mpst currenl version ofthe software, often with complete documenta­ Copying Charge: There is a charge for all tion.(You cml ol'dqrish~e\VaJ'Cdisks from copies made from the softwarelibrary. Big Red for Uleusual,copyingJpC'i\\yhen This fee, which includes the cost of the you receive Ulcdisk,itwillhave c0tnplete blank disk, helps cover the costs of instructions on hOWlO pay Ule shareware maintaining and upgrading the library. If fee. Plea~e help support shm'ewm'e you ol'der from 1 to 9 disks, the price authors. per disk is $3.50. For an order of 10 or more disks, the price drops to $2.50 per disk. Add $3 per order fOl' shipping and handling to addresses within the United States and Canada. How to Order: Send your orders to Big Red Computer Club, 423 Norfolk Avenue, Norfolk, NE 68701. PhOlle (402) 379­ 4680. Phone orders are welcome! Payment may be made with personal check, money order, Visa, or MasterCard. We accept U.S. funds only. Sorry, but we cannot accept Americml Express. We accept purcha~e orders from schools and govem­ ment organizations. You do not have to be a member of Big Red to order the disks in © 1995 Big Red Computer Club Ulis catalog. I I I I':I,!!,C 2 l_ JUST $3.50 PER DISK ORDER NOW! (402) 379-4680 3.5" DISKS Asteroids, and allows the user to design and MatheMusic, a pendulum-like graphics customized spaceships. In Chips and Dips the display that plays heavenly music. player must roam the screen collecting objects while avoiding killer robots. The player must climb ladders, and jump onto objects. GS52· Adventure Games This disk contains JIGS adventure games and arcade action games, The adventures include Spellbinder, Castle Metacus, Original Cave Adventure and Beyond Tesseract. The arcade games include Worm, Battleship and Beast. G872· Card Games Cartus Primus is one of the best shareware Games programs that we've seen. It allows you to play three-handed versions of the following card games: Cribbage, GinRummy, Pinochle, Healts, andPitch. The computer plays two ofthe hands and you can play the third. If you like, the computer will give you hints on which cards to play. There are also sharewareversions ofEuchre and Sheepshead on this disk. GS58 . Fun and Games Thisdiskcontains 11 IIGSgames and 3stunning graphics generation programs. The games includeTic TacToe, AB the LinkTurns, Follower, Romulan, Towers of Hanoi, Q*Bert, FroggeI', GS30· Solitaire Games Concentration and Backgammon. The graphics Ifyou like cardgames, this isa "musthave" disk. programs include 2 from Jason Harper: Itcontains 5 different card games which alluse Polygonia and Fillmaze. Both are wonderful 3 SHR graphics. The games are Casino Solitaire, dimensionalrepresentations ofUGS animation. Slot Poker, Pyramid Solitaire, Monte Carlo and PlasmaLab is almost indescribable; it contains Poker Solitaire. 5 different modules that generate animated fi:actal-like graphics. GS79 . Plunder! This diskcontains a game fi·omDr.KenFranklin. Plunder! is a game ofchance and daring for 1 to 4 players ofany age. In Plunder!, you and your competitors find yourself in a treasure room which is filled with various packages.You know most ofthe packages have treasures but one of themhas a bomb. You mustdecide whento leave the room. Ifyou wait too long and the bomb is UI ,,: n uncovered, you lose. GS39· GS Games $2850 This disk contains 4 action packed, freeware GS61 . One·Armed Battle arcade games for the JIGS: Crackle, Quadro­ One Armed Battle, a shareware game by Ken nome, Copy Killers, and The Link Turns. AB Franklin, is a six-reel slot machine game based Copy Killers is a very fast action joystick on the classic game of dice called Oh Shoot or controlled arcade game. The player is an FBI Devil's Dice. The game contains manyhumorous agent hunting for software pirates in a maze. digitized sounds, and ifa stereo cardis attached You mustshoot the piratesbefore beingattacked to the UGS, will playback in stereo. Mage Maze, by computer vhuses. a shareware game written by Davis Hallwas, is a richly detailed UGS maze game. Each maze has 10 levels that contain traps and doors that G888 . PixMix lead nowhere. All that's displayed on screen is a PixMix allows youtoload anyJIGS SHRgraphic compass, and an animation that charts the and the program then creates a jigsaw puzzle players travels through the maze. from the graphic. A graphic can be broken up into as few as 6 large blocks, or as many as 80 G865· Entertainment smaller blocks. Using the Apple Desktop with Included are Wheel, a text based version of pull-down menus, PixMix allows blocks to be Wheel ofFortune; Yahtzee, a beautiful looking swapped with a simple click of the mouse. and fun to play version ofthe dice game classic; Twenty-five graphics are supplied along with Fourplay, a Tetris-like strategygame;Tetrotrix, the program. GS45· Orbizone /Chips & Dips a Tetris clone with versions supplied in both This disk contains 2 wildly amusing, arcade English and French; Brian Greenstone's latest shareware games. Orbizone is an outer space offering, Senseless Violence 2, a shoot 'em up shoot 'em up arcade game that is played with a with a socially responsible anti-drug message; joystick. It is based on the classic arcade hit Page 3 FOR THE APPLE JIGS WHY PAY MORE? TECH SUPPORT AVAILABLE GS91· Entertainment we strongly suggest that you get both disks. In GS113·GS115 BouncingBluster Tonight's Sky v3.0 is the finest planetarium Naxos, you're in a jungle which is inhabited by This three-disk set contains a game which is a program for the IIGS. This program is an aliens. As they jump up from behind bushes or clone ofArkanoid. You use the mouse to move a integratedsoftware package designed as a simple come along the path, you must shoot them paddle at the bottom of the screen. The paddle tool for amateur astronomers to prepare for an before they shoot you. will deflect a ball which will then knock out evening's observing. The program will calculate bticks in the upper pOltion ofthe screen. As you the positions ofthe Sun, Moon, and planets and GS105· Space Clusters hit some of the bricks, they will release power plot them on star maps using vatious formats. This is a clone ofGalaxian, an arcade-style game capsules. Ifyoucatch a power capsule with your Also included on the disk is PowerPlay, a game where space invaders swoop down from the top paddle, it will give you additional features such thathasfour differentmodules calledFourPlay, ofthe screen to attackyourlone space craft.You as the ability to fire missiles or additional balls. Tron, PigNBull and Gtidlock. Other games use the joystick to manuever out ofthe way and As you clear each screen of the bricks, you include Brain Teaser, Castle Metacus, Video fire missiles at them until you have decimated advance to the next level. Jazz and Color.GS. their ranks.