RightWriter (1987) 0 Utility DOS MacOS Windows

RightWriter is a grammar / structure checking utility. You can feed it a document, and it will produce a marked up copy listing high level critiques such as readability, delivery strength, and jargon. It competed with Grammatik, but RightWriter generally produced superior results.

• 2.x
• 3.x
• 3.2 for DeskMate
• 3.x (Mac)
• 4.0
• 5.0 for Windows

Roland Ease Songmaker Software (1988) 1 Media Player DOS

Roland EASE is a MIDI music editor and playback program designed specifically for the Roland MT32. It supports a variety of effects, and editing features.

• 1.0

Roland Midi Music Recorder (1984) 1 DOS

The Roland Midi Music Recorder is an 8-channel music recorder, editor, and player designed for use with the Roland MPU401 MIDI adapter card. The MPU401 enables MIDI compatible musical instruments to connect to an IBM PC.

• 1.x

ScreenExtender (1992) 0 Utility DOS

ScreenExtender is a series of add-on software enhancements for popular word processors such as WordStar and WordPerfect. ScreenExtender increases the amount of text that is visible on the screen at one time. It does this by enabling smaller text characters at higher resolutions. Such text modes, up to 160 columns and 58 rows, are commonly possible with VGA adapters, but ScreenExtender can even extract extra screen real-estate on CGA, EGA, and MGA/Hercules graphics cards.

• 2.0

Serif DrawPlus (1995) 1 Graphics Windows

DrawPlus is home-oriented, easy to use, low cost, vector based illustration program that competed against high end programs such as CorelDRAW!. It was part of a publishing suite including Serif PagePlus, Serif PhotoPlus, and Serif TablePlus, Serif TypePlus, and Serif LogoPlus

• 2.0

Serif PagePlus (1994) 0 Publishing Windows

Serif PagePlus, from the British software company Serif, Inc, is a desktop publishing program for Microsoft Windows that was designed to be a lower cost alternative to others desktop publishers on the market. It was advertised as exceedingly easy to use. Reportedly the original version was named PageStar, and ran on Windows 2.

• 3.x

Services for Unix (1999) 0 Windows

Services for Unix (SFU) is a Unix compatible API layer that runs on top of NT. This enables recompilation of Unix programs on Windows with minimal changes. It does not provide binary compatiblity.

• 1.0
• 2.0

Sheridan Data Widgets (1994) 0 Windows

Sheridan Data Widgets are a set of interface and database widgets used to develop Visual Basic 3 programs under Windows 3.1.

• 1.x

Show Partner (1988) 0 Presentations Graphics DOS

Show Partner is a powerful desktop presentation graphics tool for MS-DOS. With it, you can create or edit graphics, capture screen shots, and assemble them in to an automated redistributable slide show. It supports animations, scripting, and numerous transition effects. It includes screen capture tools for DOS and Windows 1.x/2.x. Show Partner is designed to show presentations directly on your computer screen, rather than printouts or slides. CGA. However, this version supports IBM EGA and VGA. does not include automated graphing capabilities like Harvard Graphics or PowerPoint. Microsoft Mouse 6.00 driver software.

• 3.x

Sid Meier's Civilization (1992) 6 MacOS

Civilization is an addictive turn-based strategy game where you build cities, grow an empire, and compete against rival civilizations. The ultimate goal is to advance your tribe of primitives until they are the first to reach Alpha Centauri, or just conquer the entire Earth.

• I

Sign-Master (1987) 2 Presentations DOS

Sign-Master, from Decision Resources and later Ashton-Tate, is a companion product to Chart-Master and Diagram-Master. It shares the same ability to produce presentation quality graphics on high resolution printers or plotters, but geared more towards textual presentation slides. This program was also bundled in the Master Graphics Presentation Pack.

• 5.11

Smart Label Printer Plus (1991) 0 DOS

This is this software required to operate a Seiko Instruments Smart Label Printer. This software will not install without a Smart Label Printer attached. at any time from within other DOS applications.

• 2.x

SmarTerm (1987) 0 Communications DOS

SmarTerm, from Persoft, is a series of terminal emulators that provide access to mainframe systems and time-sharing services. It emulates various models of "dumb" terminals and includes binary file transfer capability. It claims to feature more accurate emulation over competing products.

• 240

Softerm (1984) 0 Communications DOS

Softerm is a powerful and flexible communications manager and terminal emulation program that operates on a variety of personal computers. It provides basic terminal communications to a variety of host computer, timesharing services, and information services such as The Source, CompuServe, and Dow Jones News/Retrieval. Softerm also functions as an exact look-alike for many popular CRT terminals which enables applications written for a specific CRT terminal to operate with your personal computer system transparently and without programming changes.

• 1.x
• Classic 1.x

Softkey Address Book Maker (1992) 0 PIM Windows

Softkey / Spinnaker Easy Working Address Book Maker is a personal information manager that stores and retrieves names, addresses, and phone numbers. with the ability to print them out in the format used by many popular paper organizers.

• 1992

SoftKey Key Master Maps (1995) 0 Reference Windows

SoftKey Key Master Maps is a road map of the entire USA on a CD.

• 1.0

SoftLogic Disk Optimizer (1987) 0 Utility DOS

Disk Optimizer, from SoftLogic Solutions Inc., was a low cost disk defragmentation utility that competed directly against the Norton Utilities. Like other disk optimizers, it re-arranges where files are stored on a hard drive to decrease file access time. It was, however, not as full featured or robust as the Norton Utilities.

• 2.x

Sound Blaster 16 ASP Drivers (1993) 4 DOS Windows

Drivers for the Sound Blaster 16 ASP series of cards.

• SB16-STD-01 (Revision 6)

Sound Blaster CD-ROM Drivers (1995) 0 DOS

These are DOS drivers for the Creative Sound Blaster with CD-ROM support sound card.

• 1.x

Sound Blaster Developer Kit (1991) 2 DOS

Sound Blaster Developer Kit is a set of libraries used to develop programs that support the Creative Labs Sound Blaster sound card. 6.0, Turbo C version 2.0, Microsoft QuickBasic version 4.5, Microsoft Basic PDS version 7.0, and Turbo Pascal version 6.0.

• 2.00

Sound Blaster Drivers (1990) 32 DOS Windows

The Sound Blaster is a series of sound cards from Create Labs. For a time, the Sound Blaster was considered a de-facto standard for DOS based gaming. Initially it competed against the uncommon IBM Music Feature card, and the Adlib cards. The original sound blaster provided 8-bit mono digital sound in addition to Adlib-compatible FM music synthesis and stereo CMS Game Blaster compatible square-wave music. Most DOS games work best with the earlier ISA cards. Later PCI cards use completely different hardware and only provide Sound Blaster compatiblity through software emulation.

• Sound Blaster 1.0
• Sound Blaster 1.5
• Sound Blaster 2.0
• Sound Blaster Pro
• Sound Blaster AWE32
• Sound Blaster AWE64
• Sound Blaster Live!

Spellbinder (1982) 4 Word Processor CPM DOS

Spellbinder, from Lexisoft and later Ltec Inc, is a word processing program originally created for CP/M and OASIS operating systems and eventually competed with WordStar. It was designed as a work-alike of the NBI Word Processing system and featured spell checking, grammar checking, footnotes, two-column print, proportional printing, and macro programming language. It was bundled with machines from Eagle Computers, Hewlett-Packard, and Xerox.

• 5.x
• 6.10

Spinnaker Splash (1988) 0 Graphics DOS

Splash is a VGA-centric paint program created by Spinnaker Software in 1988. Considering that VGA was only introduced in 1987 in conjunction with the IBM PS2 line, this is a pretty early entry in the VGA-compatible paint program market. pixel-level editing, an extensive internal help system, and can export images to TIFF and PC Paintbrush compatible files.

• 1988

Springboard Certificate Maker (1986) 0 Publishing DOS

Certificate Maker, from Springboard, is a fun little program for printing a variety of styled certificates on your dot-matrix printer. You must refer to the manual to see what the templates look like, as it provides no on screen preview. Award Maker seems to be an offshoot of this product.

• 1

SSSI FacetTerm (1993) 2 Utility Unix

FacetTerm is a windowing interface software package for character-based Unix terminals. FacetTerm gives users pull-down menuing and multitasking ability.

• 3.x