3D Construction Kit (a.k.a. 3D Virtual Studio)
One of Incentive's final product before changing its business into producing virtual realities is easily one of the best-- if not THE best-- game-creation program ever made. It lets you create believable 3D games with BASIC-style scripts and a highly detailed 3D object module that lets you create and specify...
3D Construction Kit 2
3D Construction Kit 2 (3DCK2) is a great sequel to Incentive/Domark's 3D Construction Kit, released a year earlier. As with the first title, 3DCK2 isn't really a game but a powerful application that lets you create 3D action/adventure games. The engine is powered by Freescape, Incentive's acclaimed game engine that...
Adventure Construction Set
As its name implies, Adventure Construction Set is a program that allows you to create your own "adventure." The result is really an RPG, due to heavy emphasis on monsters and statistics. As a tool for creating dungeons, ACS was very advanced for its time. Though the graphics and sound...
Bannermania
Bannermania is a fun little application that lets you create banners of all shapes and sizes, and print them out in color. The program is much more limited than Broderbund's venerable Print Shop series, but is still notable for providing a lot of "bang for the buck," i.e. dozens of...
Bard's Construction Set
Make your own Bard's Tale versions with this cool construction set!...
BBC Gardeners' World: 3D Designer
The first in a long and reasonably successful line of 3D garden designer software, Europress' 3D Designer is licensed by BBC to use the name of its popular "Gardeners' World" TV program on the product. Quite ahead of its time by 1993 standards, the plethora of design/drawing options in 3D...
Cornerstone
Commonly known as "the cause of Infocom's fall," Cornerstone is a revolutionary relational database application that unfortunately never sold as many copies as it deserved. The program was very powerful for its time, with many innovative features that were miles ahead of the competition. For example, Cornerstone allows you to...
Dr. Sbaitso
A cool personal psychiatrist program shipped with Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro, Dr. Sbaitso was designed to showcase digitized voices Sound Blaster card was able to produce. Tell your problems or ask questions using standard parser (e.g. "Why does everyone hate me?") and the digital Dr. Sbaitso will intone...
Dungeon Master's Assistant Volume I
Dungeon Master's Assistant Volume I and Volume II are not games but a pair of useful utility programs that prospective AD&D dungeon masters can use to help generate and organize their pencil-and-paper games. Although all text-based, the interface is intuitive and the programs are packed with a wide range of...
Dungeon Master's Assistant Volume II
Dungeon Master's Assistant Volume I and Volume II are not games but a pair of useful utility programs that prospective AD&D dungeon masters can use to help generate and organize their pencil-and-paper games. Although all text-based, the interface is intuitive and the programs are packed with a wide range of...
Fanta Vision
Fanta Vision is an excellent graphics application that allows you to design your own movies by drawing pictures, animating them, and adding sound. The program was very sophisticated for its time (1988), considering the range of options it offered. The game combines an excellent user interface, a wide range of...
Flight Sim Toolkit
Ever wanted to make your flight simulator? Well, this program has everything you need. You can create theatres of operations, model units, etc... There are several games built around this, the better being Tornado Squadron and WW2. Graphics can either be standard VGA or 640x480 SVGA, with sound support for...
Hacker (Wadesoft)
From the readme, "This program was created as a programming aid: to help WadeSoft decipher various file formats, such as .WAV and .TGA files. It can be used for this purpose as well as another - to help gamers "cheat". As well as a programmers' best friend, this utility can...
Hudson City Sector One
Hudson City Sector One is a little-known utility program - more appropriately "gamemaster's aid" - for use in managing ongoing games of pen & paper RPGs set in Hudson City, part of HERO Games's award-winning "Dark Champions" RPG system. Based on the "Goldtree Engine," a short-lived utility engine by Goldtree...
Lotus Agenda 2.0
Lotus Agenda is arguably not only the best "personal information manager" (PIM) software ever made, but also one of the best applications ever seen on a PC. A DOS program originally marketed by Lotus during the late 1980's and early 1990's, Lotus Agenda is in fact the program for which...
Marvel Screen Posters
Yet another module for the world's most popular screensaver After Dark (also see Star Trek: The Screensavers) The program features screens from released and unreleased Marvel comics, great sound effects, and diverse modules to make staring at the monitor more entertaining. Not as informative as LucasArts' Star Wars Entertainment ,...
MegaZeux
One of the best game-related applications ever made, MegaZeux is a versatile Game Creation System (GCS) created by Gregory Janson, creator of acclaimed ZZT games Code Red and many more. Essentially a souped-up version of ZZT, MegaZeux lets you create top-down games using ASCII graphics and tracked music (via SoundBlaster)....
Moslo 1.32
Slowdown-utility, very useful for old games designed to run on an XT or 286....
Nickelodeon Directors Lab
What better way to present a classic Nickelodeon Game than with a classic Nickelodean Figurehead, yes Mellisa Joanhart herself helps to instruct you through the many features of this all inclusive Viacom Interactive's Nickelodeon Director's Lab!The Game is laid out in a Room with several doors, each leading into the...
Origin FX
One of Origin's least known releases is a solid screensaver collection that features posters and scenes from famous Origin games (e.g. Wing Commander and Ultima). The screensaver modules are not as varied in style as LucasArts' underrated Star Wars Screen Entertainment-- they are mostly just slideshows including a lot of...
Pinball Construction Set
Based on the same engine as Music Construction Set, Pinball Construction Set is another original application that remain as fun and playable today as it was years ago. The program lets you construct a pinball table from the ground up: place hoops, targets, rails, and many other components on the...
Star Trek: The Screensaver
Yet another module for the world's most popular screensaver After Dark. The program features the original cast, great sound effects, and diverse modules to make staring at the monitor more entertaining. Not as informative as LucasArts' Star Wars Entertainment, but still a great value for all Trekkie fans....
Stereolusions
A cool program for Windows that can create stereograms-- pictures that form 3D images when you cross your eyes properly-- from any picture. Many graphics formats are supported, and the program also includes excellent guides on how stereograms work, and overview of different techniques used to create them. No more...
ThinkTank
ThinkTank is an excellent "outliner" application, a niche genre of applications that were more popular on the Macintosh in the early 1980s. Outliner software allows you to organize your ideas into a complex hierarchy and edit them - to create a detailed outline, in other words. Naturally, outliners were popular...
What Are You Doing Today, Charlie Brown?
What Are You Doing Today, Charlie Brown? is a nice calendar program for Windows that features hundreds of Peanuts comic strips. You can create to-do lists, set reminders for events, and group different kinds of events into categories for ease of use. Overall, a nice little application that fans of...
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