The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (1987) 1 DOS

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, from Infocom, is a text-based interactive fiction game where you play the role of the Arthur Dent, a hapless nobody who must escape the destruction of Earth, and solve numerous puzzles along the way.

• 1987

The New Basics Electronic Cookbook (1992) 1 Reference DOS

Created from the best-selling Silver Palate Cookbook series by authors Julee Rosso and Sheila Lukins, The New Basics Electronic Cookbook includes a library of over 1,800 delicious recipes, hundreds of colorful pictures, and a wide range of helpful cooking hints, spoken by the authors themselves.

• 1992

The Print Shop Companion (1984) 0 Graphics Publishing DOS

As the name suggests, the Print Shop Companion is a companion product to The Print Shop. It contains extra miscellaneous functionality such as graphics editors and envelope printing.

• For IBM PC (DOS)
• The NEW PSC (DOS)
• Deluxe

The Program Director (1989) 0 Utility DOS

The Program Director is a tiny little customizable menuing program. It was sold commercially as budget software.

• 1989

The Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia (1992) 0 Reference DOS

The Software Toolworks Multimedia Encyclopedia is an early multimedia CD-ROM encyclopedia that features articles, photographs, animation, and sound. It was often bundled with sound cards and new computers. There were versions for DOS, Windows, and Macintosh.

• 1.x

The Steinman Spreadsheet (1988) 0 Spreadsheet DOS

Steinman is a small spreadsheet program originally written in 1984 for the Commodore 64 by Barbara Steinman. The Steinman Spreadsheet is "output oriented", focusing on creating customized printed reports based on your spreadsheet data. distributed by SoftDisk with their Big Blue Disk magazine.

• 1.00 (IBM PC)

The Video Wizard (1986) 0 Database DOS

The Video Wizard, from IntraCorp, Inc., is a database program specifically for keeping track of video tapes. Among other things it has the ability to locate blank space on your tapes. It also includes a primitive video titler for use with IBM CGA composite video out. This program was also available for a number of other platforms such as Apple II, C64, and Atari ST.

• 1986

ThinkTank (1984) 1 Editor DOS

ThinkTank is an outliner program or "Idea Processor" that arranges notes and ideas in a hierarchy that you can easily re-arrange. It was marketed as a tool for writing document outlines, brainstorming, notes, and todo lists. But it proved to be a very popular program, not just for writers, but for anyone who wanted to organize and move around ideas.

• 1.x

Toolworks Backup Pro (1990) 0 Utility DOS

Backup Pro, from The Software Toolworks, is an easy to use backup program for MS-DOS. It features drop down menus and mouse support. It was sometimes bundled with OEM computers, and was sold for very low cost compared to others.

• 1.x

ToyBox Menu Manager / Magic Desk (1992) 0 Utility DOS

ToyBox II, later renamed to Magic Desk, is a simplified graphical menu system that lets you launch your DOS applications from a selection of tiled iconic buttons. Supports nested hierarchies, includes an icon editor, and a number of common icons.

• 2.x
• 3.x (Magic Desk)

Trace86 (1985) 0 DOS

Advanced Trace86 is a full screen debugger tool that lets users visually trace through execution of 8086 machine code.

• 2.x

Track Ball Drivers (1990) 0 DOS

Generic mouse and track ball drivers for devices using the Microsoft or Mouse Systems protocols.

• 4.x

Trackball Drivers 0 DOS Windows

Various drivers for trackball-based input devices.

• 4.15

Trend Micro Chip Away (1993) 0 Utility DOS

Released in the early 90s by the Japanese company Trend Micro Devices, Inc (later just Trend Micro), Chip Away Viruses is a DOS based virus scanner that is intended to run from a hardware product built in to a PC motherboard before the system boots. It includes a custom embeddable DOS (called X-DOS), but it can be run from regular DOS. Trend Micro also produced the products PC Rx (A regular software virus scanner), and PC-cillin (a hardware/software combo that keeps critical boot information in a special device). Users sometimes misinterpreted the name "ChipAway Virus" as being a virus itself.

• 2.x

True BASIC (1985) 2 DOS

True BASIC, from True BASIC, Inc, is a powerful BASIC compiler for DOS.

• 1.0

TTY Communications (1983) 1 Communications DOS

TTY Communications is a rudimentary dial up/terminal emulation telecommunications package sold with the Texas Instruments Personal Computer.

• 1.x

Turbo Basic Toobox (1988) 2 DOS

Turbo Basic Toobox is a commercial set of sample editor-related source code for use with Borland Turbo Basic.

• 1.0

Turbo Pascal Toolbox (1985) 27 DOS CPM

The Borland Turbo Pascal Toolbox consists of several sets of sample source code for different purposes. They are designed for use in conjunction with the Turbo Pascal Compiler product. The sets include Turbo Graphix Toobox, Turbo Database Toolbox, Turbo GameWorks Tooolbox (new in 1986 with TP 3), and Turbo Editor Toolbox (new in 1986 with TP 3). Also see the Turbo Pascal Tutor.

• 1.x
• 4.0

Turbo Pascal Tutor (1984) 5 DOS

The Turbo Pascal Tutor is a set of sample programs and exercises that help you learn Borland Turbo Pascal. This is for use with Turbo Pascal. Also see the Borland Turbo Pascal Toolbox products.

• 1.x
• 4.0

Turbo Power Object Professional (1989) 1 DOS

Object Professional, from Turbo Power, is a library of window object types for Turbo Pascal Programmers, supporting overlapping resizable windows, menus, pick lists, data entry controls, and text editing.

• 1.x

Turbo Power Turbo Analyst (1989) 1 DOS

Turbo Analyst, from Turbo Power, is a set of utilities, source code, and documentation for Turbo Pascal software developers. It includes tools to automate common programming tasks, such as a Pascal formatter, cross reference, execution timer, execution profiler, program indexer, and program listener.

• 5.x

Turbo Power Turbo Professional (1989) 1 DOS

Turbo Professional is a library of utilities, source, and documentation for turbo Pascal programmers. Includes TSR management, BCD arithmetic, windowing, menuing, EMS and XMS access routines, large arrays, macros, runtime error recovery.

• 5.x

Turbo Tax (1991) 0 Financial DOS

Turbo Tax, from ChipSoft, was a program that assists people in filing their tax returns.

• 9.x

Turner Hall Card Clock Driver (1985) 0 DOS

This is a clock driver required to use the real-time clock on "The Turner Hall Card", a memory expansion/clock card for IBM PCs.

• 1985

Type Faces (1983) 0 Utility DOS

Type Faces is a program that can print word processing documents using a number of fancy fonts. The fonts are rendered graphically so you are not dependent on the fonts included with your printer. At the smaller sizes, the fonts are letter quality. Type Faces supports formatting codes that you can insert in to your documents, such as right justify, centering, and underline.

• 1983