QEMM (1990) 27 Utility DOS Windows

Quarterdeck QEMM is a DOS Extended Memory Manager for 386+ computer which allows you to make use of memory beyond the 640kb barrier. It can also be used with QRAM, a utility for freeing up the 640k base memory.

• 9.x

QuarkXPress (1986) 13 Publishing Windows

QuarkXPress was THE standard publishing software during the 1990s. However it failed to update its product line to newer technologies in a timely manager, charged insane amounts for updates or additional features that should have been built in to the software, and became very abusive to their customers. Later versions required a parallel port/ADB copy protection dongle. They lost most of their market share to Adobe InDesign.

• 4.0

Adobe Type Manager (1991) 8 Windows MacOS

Adobe Type Manager was designed to provide scalable fonts on early Mac and Windows 3.0 systems that did not provide similar functionality natively. ATM is required by a number of graphics application originally designed to work in these environments. ATM is packaged as a "lite" installable runtime. Later releases offer a "Deluxe" version with extra font management abilities. Other OSes including NeXTSTEP, DESQview, and OS/2 come with ATM functionality built-in.

• 4.x

Quicken (1989) 4 Financial Windows

Quicken, from Intuit, is a financial management tool for home users. It was first released in 1984 for DOS and later ported to Apple II, Macintosh, and Windows. Intuit also provided a more powerful product, QuickBooks, for small businesses.

• 6.x (Win)

My Advanced MailList (1991) 1 Database Windows

My Advanced MailList is a comprehensive mailing list manager database that supports a wide variety of label formats, embedded graphics, import/export with other databases, and printing POST-NET barcodes.

• 1.x (Win)

AOLPress (1997) 2 Editor Document Windows

AOL Press 2.0 is a Windows based what-you-see-is-what-you-get HTML editor from AOL. It competed with other HTML Cuisinarts such as Microsoft Front Page.

• 2.0

ABC 3D Atlas (1997) 2 Reference Novelty Windows

A 3D world atlas.

• 98

HP FontSmart (1997) 2 Windows

HP FontSmart is a font management tool which was originally introduced with the HP LaserJet 5P and 5MP printers. HP FontSmart allows you to manage all Windows bitmapped, TrueType, and ATM fonts, not just those included with FontSmart. Fonts are easily installed in Windows (allowing you to select a font in your application), uninstalled from Windows (the font is de-activated from Windows but kept on the system for future use), or deleted from your hard disk to reclaim valuable system resources. Typefaces can also be viewed, magnified, and font lists can be printed. A full installation of FontSmart will provide an additional 110 fonts for use by Windows.

• 2.5

XDict (1997) 0 Reference Windows

A Chinese dictionary

• 1.x

WinPlay (1997) 2 Audio Media Player Windows

WinPlay3 was the first real-time MP3 audio player for PCs running Windows.

• 2.3b5

AutoSketch (1987) 8 Graphics Windows

AutoSketch is a 2D vector program sold by Autodesk. Unlike artistic drawing programs, AutoSketch is specifically geared towards engineering applications. Although not as powerful as AutoCAD, it can work with 2D AutoCAD files. Autodesk also produced AutoCAD LT, a higher end 2-D drawing program. But unlike AutoSketch, AutoCAD LT was based directly on AutoCAD and worked similarly.

• 5.x (Win)

BOA HomeBanking with Manging Your Money (1997) 0 Financial Windows

This is the proprietary dial up program used with Bank of America's HomeBanking service ~1997. It is bundled with a customized copy of MECA's "Managing Your Money", a financial management program.

• 2.1a

Fallout (1996) 63 Windows

A post-apoloptic role playing game.

• 1.0
• 2.0

Kea420 (1997) 2 Communications Windows

KEA is a VT420 terminal emulator with advanced features for mainframe users.

• 5.00

Microshaft Winblows 98 (1997) 11 Windows MacOS

Winblows 98, from Parroty Interactive, is an interactive puzzle where you must find hidden passwords to gain access to secret Microshaft systems. You are rewarded with access to secret Microshaft "applications" and humorous videos. The humor is kind of dry and campy, but it is still worth a few yucks. Includes the mini-games Microshaft Internet Exploder, X-Fools, and Whack the Ewok. For Win9x and MacOS.

• 1.0

Argent Quota Server (1997) 0 Server Windows

This server utility places and manages limits on the content size of network shares under Windows NT 4. Great for keeping users from hogging the entire file server!

• 4.1f

Peachtree Complete Accounting (1992) 6 Financial Windows

Peachtree Accounting was originally created in 1975 by an Altair dealer, The Computer SystemCenter, in Atlanta, Georgia to help sell Altair computers. That possibly would have made it the first accounting package for personal computers.

• 4.0 (Win)

Encarta Virtual Globe (1997) 2 Reference Windows

Encarta Virtual Globe is a companion multimedia product to Microsoft Encarta, and was also included on the Encarta Reference Suite DVD. Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe contains detailed geographical and topographical maps and information, a huge database of places, geography games, satellite photographs, and 3D "flights" over major landmarks.

• 1998 Edition

Macromedia Director (1994) 25 Presentations Windows

Macromedia Director is a multimedia authoring tool, and is used to create Macromedia Shockwave content. It started off as a Macintosh animation program called VideoWorks.

• 5.x
• 7.x

PowerBuilder (1994) 13 Windows

PowerBuilder, by Powersoft and later Sybase, is a development environment for building business application that uses the object-oriented "Powerscript" programming language. Primarily targeted at enterprises, it featured the ability to quickly and visually create powerful database programs under Microsoft Windows without having to worry about the complexities of C/C++ and the Windows SDK. It supports operation with many high end databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database Servers.

• 5.x
• 6.x

Expedia Streets (1997) 1 Reference Windows

Expedia Streets, from Microsoft, is a multimedia street atlas similar to Delorme Street Atlas. It competed with DeLorme Street Atlas, and Rand McNally Route Planner.

• 98 (6.0)

VoiceType (1997) 0 Utility Novelty Windows

VoiceType is a voice dictation and speech recognition program from IBM. Compared to other products, VoiceType was considered fairly fast and accurate, but required several hours of "training" to achieve that. It was aimed at a fairly niche voice dictation market.

• 3.x
• Simply Speaking 3.x

MacDrive 95 (1997) 2 Utility Windows

MacDrive 95 is a system driver for Windows 95 that seamlessly reads and writes 1.44mb formatted Macintosh floppy disks. Note: this only works on 1.44mb disks, not 400K/800K disks.

• 1.x

Adobe Streamline (1992) 7 Graphics Publishing Windows

Adobe Streamline is an image conversion and manipulation tool that aids conversion of bit-mapped images in to PostScript line art for use in tools such as Adobe Illustrator.

• 4.0

Microsoft Windows a Vision for the Future (1997) 1 Novelty Document Windows

This is a promotional collection of documents in HTML format released in 1997 describing Microsoft's upcoming plans for future versions of Windows.

• 1997