CompuNotes
Notes from The Cutting Edge of Personal Computing
June 1, 1997
Issue 79

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CONTENTS
My Notes:
1=> Why I Have Been Away, mailto:pgrote@i1.net
2=> This Issue's Winner!

Reviews:
3=> Product: After Dark 4.0, Utility
Reviewed by: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
4=> Product: CyberGladiators, Game
Reviewed By: Craig Bull, mailto:bull@udayton.edu
5=> Product: Drag and File Gold For Windows 95, Utility
Reviewed By: Don Hughes, mailto:dhughes@wwdc.com

6=> Clickables!

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1=> Where in the Hell Has CompuNotes Been?, mailto:pgrote@i1.net

To the new subscribers -- this is a personal note, which I usually do not include in CompuNotes.

Well, it has been close to a month since you have seen CompuNotes grace your mailbox. Sorry about the delay. Several factors have contributed to this delay. A new job search and the death of my sister-in-law.

The new job search was slower than I expected. I'm almost an MCSE and have loads of experience in the networking industry including being a former CNE and having built a major WAN for a large corporation. There were high paying jobs out there, don't let anyone tell you there aren't, but the high paying jobs were not exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted a job in project management in the NT/Back Office area. I think I have found a perfect fit as a project manager converting an Air Force base from NetWare to NT and GroupWise to Exchange. Of course, I took the job contingent upon the Air Force liking me, which I will find out tomorrow. Either it will be a very good day or I will be jobless. Ah, isn't life wonderful?

I have a book that lists the ten most stressful things that can happen to a person. In the last two weeks I have had two of them enter my life. A job change, as noted above, and the sudden death of someone close to me.

My sister-in-law and I never got along at first. I think this was because we were so alike. We were both outspoken, sometimes engaging our mouths before our brains.(Do you know how hard it is to type WERE instead of ARE?) We were both very good at manipulating situations when needed. We were both very giving people. We were both very creative. We were both very open minded about everything though she took a liberal stance towards issues and I took the conservative stance. She likened me to Rush and didn't let me forget Clinton actually won the last election. This lead to some pretty heated arguments and situations where we wouldn't speak to each other for weeks.

Her name was Mary Elizabeth Schrader. We called her Mary Beth and people really close to her called her Beth. Included among these close people were her husband and brother. A dynamic and vibrant woman, Mary Beth struggled for years with many problems including having a child out of wedlock, a sleep disorder and physical ailments from a car accident. Only in the last 6-8 months had her life really come together for her and coincidentally our relationship flourished.

Mary Beth had many talents I didn't share with her. The biggest was being artistic. She is the person who showed me the beauty in art. Before I saw her artwork art was pretty boring to me. As she developed her talent in items from nativity scenes to paintings I developed my appreciation. In the last three weeks she was accepted in a contest at the St. Louis Artists Guild. This was quite an honor as not everyone who submits work is accepted. We gussied up and went to her art show. Her painting displayed among other very talented artists truly looked like it belonged. At that point I knew she had the talent to become a person who would touch people in ways only artists can.

The last time I spent with her was alone on May 23rd. She came over to our house to drop her eight year old daughter off for a Memorial Day trip to Chicago. My wife took her daughter and mine out shopping. Mary Beth and I spent about an hour and a half together talking, arguing in a fun way, sharing perspectives and watching half of the last XFiles episode.

We saw her again on Monday, May 26th for about an hour. We chatted about Chicago, she did a dynamite Italian woman impression and we shared Jelly Bellies. We hugged as she left. Little did I know that would be the last time I saw her alive.

As I was jolted awake by the sound of the phone at 3:00am, my wife grabbed it. It was her Mom. Dave, Mary Beth's husband, had taken Mary Beth to the hospital due to a seizure. Missy and I talked and thought it may have to do with stress as Mary Beth had been very busy with her work, which was director of a latchkey program for a local Catholic school. We decided I would stay home with our daughter as it was her last week of school and my last week at my old job. As I went back to bed I asked God to make this a non-issue I also asked God to watch over Mary Beth as I knew hospitals weren't her favorite place.

Thirty minutes later my wife called me sobbing on the phone. She said it didn't look good and I should bring my daughter, Cassie, to the hospital right away. I hurried and made a 10 mile run to the hospital in 6 minutes running red lights and doing 95 on the highway. Cassie and I ran into the hospital emergency room. As I looked up I saw Missy coming out of a room hysterical with tears. I then saw what I knew meant the end was inevitable -- a priest was leaving the room holding a bottle of oil and removing his vestments. The last rites. Shit.

The morning became a blur. I was told by my brother-in-law Mary Beth had suffered a brain aneurysm. He then told me they thought she was brain dead. I visited her room briefly to cry with her husband and see this once vibrant woman lying eyes closed and forced to breathe by a respirator.

At 12:40pm that day the neurosurgeon made his final appearance and explained to the family there was no change in the situation. There was no brain activity at all, including the all important lower brain stem. My niece kept asking if her Mom was going to die. I felt as if all the pain everyone in the world was feeling was focused through this little girl.

As the afternoon unfolded my niece laid next to Mary Beth in the hospital bed. She would look up at me with wide, teary blue eyes as to say, "Can't you help her Uncle Patrick." The feeling of utter helplessness washed over me.

The next morning we met with the transplant coordinator and saw Mary Beth for the last time. She was in a surgery recovery area. My mother-in-law, brother-in-law and myself looked at her lifeless body and said a teary eyed good-bye. My mother-in-law and Mary Berth had an understanding they would be there for each other in times of medical procedures -- this was the last. As we walked from the hospital the transplant coordinator told us Mary Beth's heart had already saved the life of a young local soccer coach. In these moments of brutal pain and anguish I found a feeling of hope. Mary Beth lived on.

At the visitation I was asked by her husband, Dave, to give the eulogy. I was deeply touched. As I said, Mary Beth and I weren't always loving relatives. I was also very scared. What could I possibly do to make the people attending the funeral mass remember the great things about Mary Beth I did. I stayed up until 4:15am the morning before the funeral thinking of what to say and how to say it. I took some advice my Dad gave me. I didn't prepare a formal document. If the eulogy was to convey the greatness of Mary Beth it had to come from my heart as did all things Mary Beth did.

Before I went to the lectern to say the eulogy I asked God to let me get through the eulogy without going hysterical and to fill me with the right words. Armed with a 3x5 note card with exactly ten words, I started speaking. I spoke calmly for about ten minutes. As every sentence came from my mouth I felt calmer, even happy. As I spoke I was remembering how she touched me. How she touched everyone she met. God was inspiring me and I was really giving everyone their insight into how special Mary Beth was.

Mary Beth had recently gone on-line. I always passed her e-mail items on Native Americans, as she felt a kinship with their spirituality. Through the course of this weekend I have already stopped myself five times from forwarding e-mail items I thought she would like.

Mary Elizabeth Schrader -- a dynamic, vibrant woman I loved like a sister and will remember as a great person.

2=> Winner!
This issue's winner: mythdancer@aol.com.

3=> Product: After Dark 4.0, Utility
Reviewed by: Steve Lozowski, mailto:slozowsk@locke.ccil.org
Requires: 486/66, Windows 95, SVGA
MSRP: $30.00

We no longer need screen savers to prevent burn-in with today's monitors, regardless of what the After Dark User's Manual says.  I should say we no longer have this reason to justify purchasing a screen saver.  After Dark 4.0 provides many other entertaining reasons.  The latest incarnation of the popular screen saver from Berkeley Systems comes on a CD-ROM containing versions for Windows 95 and the Macintosh (the Mac version was not reviewed).

In addition to 22 all new animated displays, the CD contains After Dark On-line, a standalone collection of free screen savers that present information from Internet sources as a screen saver. More on After Dark On-line later in this review.  Software to access AT&T WorldNet Service, including Netscape Navigator is provided for those without an Internet Access Provider (ISP).  After Dark 4.0 will organize screen saver displays from previous versions of After Dark, and comes with one older display - Starry Night. I appreciate how After Dark integrates seamlessly with Windows 95. After installation, you select After Dark as your screen saver in the normal Windows 95 Display Properties tab.  An After Dark Icon will appear in your task bar on the right, in the notification area where you can have a clock display.  This new icon allows you to turn on or off the After Dark screen saver, mute the screen saver, or open up the After Dark control panel tab in Display Properties.  The single mouse-click access to these options is very handy.  I like the ability to quickly turn off the screen saver before launching a program that does not coexist well with screen savers, a problem some games have.

Once in the options tab, a randomizer can be selected which uses all the After Dark displays in a random order.  After a user-determined amount of time, the program will change to a new screen saver display if the computer continues to be idle.  This is a nice way to randomly preview the displays, or provide changes without requiring any action on your part.  I switch between using the randomizer, and selecting one of my favorites to remain as my screen saver.

As many screen savers do, After Dark provides user-definable hot-keys to immediately start the screen saver or turn the sound on or off.  Control corners can also be selected for automatically starting or preventing the start of After Dark.  A corner of your display can be chosen that will provide one of those two actions if the mouse is moved and left in that position.

The screen saver displays themselves are among the best I have seen.  Many provide sound or music, which can be fun when visitors suddenly hear something coming from another room when After Dark kicks in.  The sound on many of them greatly enhances their experience.  A couple will not cycle colors if your display is set to more than 256 colors.  I know other programs with similar limitations, but I have never understood the reason for this.  If someone can explain this to me, please drop me a message at the e-mail address above.

Many of the displays have their own options, including custom and random settings.  Messages has an option that appears as a hand writing on your fog-covered monitor from the inside, replete with a squeaking sound as the finger draws a message.  Fish World turns your computer into a photo-realistic aquarium.  Psycho Deli and Slow Burn provide visual delights like those generated by many fractal programs. An After Dark classic, Flying Toasters can be set to either adult or baby toasters.  Each can also be set to display words to their song karaoke-style on the bottom of the screen.  I can't explain why, but I found myself singing along silently.  Bad Dog will temporarily make a mess of your desktop and sometimes stumble into a small "3D Application Window".  The effect is hard to explain, but if you've ever seen the Simpsons episode where Homer enters a 3D world, you get the idea. Other cute screen savers include the dueling Hula Twins, the Art Critic, and Super Guy, who is a child pretending to be a super hero. CYb3r W@t (yes, that's spelled correctly) was a rather confusing combination of high-tech bytes such as binary numbers, messages such as "download commencing", bar codes, and computerized images and voices. I suppose it might be useful to trick someone into thinking your computer is doing something important and mysterious.

Some of the displays double as games.  Rock Paper Scissors is a version of the classic game, this time played with a rock, a piece of paper, and scissors on your computer screen.  Marbles! lets you arrange obstacles in the path of marbles falling from the top of the screen. The obstacles include spheres resembling the globes that you see at Christmas time filled with a scene, fake snow, and water.  As in real life, if a marble hits one of these, the snow is shaken up, and falls over the scene within the globe.  Magic Turtle is a drawing game, where you manipulate turtles to create the desired images.

After Dark On-line is a set of screen savers that brings news and information from the Internet to your PC.  Current choices are DBC Financial News, Sport Illustrated On-line, USA Today, ZD Net, and a fourteen day free trial of The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition. Within these channels, you select the programs you want to view.  For example, within DBC Financial News, you can select from Business Headlines, Dow Jones Industrial, Internet, and Nasdaq Composite, among others.  You can even select a ticker-tape display to track up to 25 stocks or sports scores. You only connect to the Internet long enough to download the news, then the information is displayed as a screen saver.  This downloading can be controlled manually on demand, automatically (if you remain continually connected to the Internet), or with a custom schedule, where you decide when during each day of the week to download the updates.

When the screen saver is playing an After Dark On-line channel, you can click on an item that interests you.  This will launch your web browser and connect to that item on the content provider's web site. After Dark On-line requires that you have a 32 bit Internet browser and a connection to an ISP.  An additional 500 KB of disk space is needed for each news channel you select.  After Dark On-line also works with all previous versions of After Dark, and is available for free download at http://www.afterdark.com

If you want a screen saver, if only for amusement, I would recommend After Dark 4.0.  Just watching and listening to some of displays can be a great stress-reliever.  With the addition of After Dark On-line, you can use your screen saver to help save time finding information that is important to you on the Internet.  Screen saver collections don't get any better than this!

Berkeley Systems, Inc.
2095 Rose Street
Berkeley, CA 94709
Voice: (510)-540-5535
<http://www.berksys.com>

Installation/Ease of Use: Gold
User-Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
User: Novice


4=> Product: CyberGladiators, Game
Reviewed By: Craig Bull, mailto:bull@udayton.edu
Reviewed on: Pentium 100, 32MB RAM, Windows 95, 4xCD-ROM
Requires: Pentium 60, 8MB RAM, Windows95, 2xCD-ROM
MSRP: $39.99

CyberGladiators is a futuristic fighting game along the lines of the shareware game One Must Fall.  The planet Id (Industrial Dump) was once the home base for the Quaaflax Alliance's top special tactics team, until it became their graveyard during a Gy Djin terrorist assault.  The bodies were never found and the planet became a radioactive wasteland.  A freak cosmic stop caused the waste and chemicals on the planet to fuse.  The CyberGladiators rose from the wreckage.  Amazingly, they bore a striking resemblance to the Alliance fighters.  Of course, to keep thing interesting, the storm also hit the DungeonStar, a deep- space prison built to house the most dangerous criminals in the Galaxy.

The battles in the game take place across four Quaaflax galaxy planets.  Each planet has two arenas.  You must win all eight battles to win the right to face your opponent's ultimate warrior.  The final match takes place on your opponent's home turf: Planet Id if you're an evil Gladiator; DungeonStar if you're a good Gladiator.

Installation was straight forward.  The AutoRun feature of Windows95 makes it very easy.  Inserting the CD after the initial installation causes the system to ask if you'd like to play the game.  Before it actually installs the game, a test is performed on your system to see if it meets the minimum requirements.  I originally installed the game on an AMD DX4/100 with 32MB of RAM, not realizing the minimum requirements.  By unloading all applications (like WordPerfect's DAD) I was able to get it to run.  Obviously, it will work better on a Pentium, but the 486 wasn't bad. The intro sequence is great, but breaks up badly on a 2x CD-ROM drive.  Other than that, a 2x CD-ROM is fine.

The game begins at the fighter selection screen.  You can choose from one of eight fighter; four evil fighters and four good fighters.  From this screen, you can also set options such as fighter strength, motion, time limit, and arena selection.  If you set a time limit (the default is 60 seconds), if no fighter has won at the expiration, you go into Sudden Death, where the next fighter to land a blow wins the battle. With a time limit of None, there is no Sudden Death.

To defeat your opponent, you must beat them in two consecutive battles.  No best two out of three here!  As a result, a fighter who doesn't at least get a draw is in danger of being eliminated.  Each fighter has a set of special moves above and beyond the basic set.  Fortunately, the control combinations are identical, so you don't need to learn a whole new set of control commands for each fighter.

The graphics and sound track for this game are incredible. Each fighter is a 3D rendered object.  Movement is very good, even on the 486.  You can set the resolution and graphics details to various levels, so you should be able to get it to work well on most systems.  The sound effects are pretty good, giving a nice feel to the game.  During each battle, you can have music play.  The music is from the CD and seems to fit the feel of each different arena.  (I'm actually listening to the music tracks as I write this).

However, (there's always a "but") all that aside, I really didn't care for this game.  I wanted to like it.  I'd seen information on Sierra's WWW site and thought it looked pretty neat.  But I just couldn't enjoy the game.  There really wasn't any point to it.  In the shareware One Must Fall (OMF), each battle you won earned you money which you could use to enhance your fighter.  This game has no such options.  The ultimate goal here is to fight the leader of the opposing force.  If you manage to beat all the other fighters without using a Continue (in other words, with out getting beat on the way) or setting your fighters strength to Strong, you can then fight as the leader you just defeated.  Wow.

The graphics and sounds were great.  But that's no good if the game isn't fun to play.  I found the controls to be awkward.  In looking at the Quick Reference Card, it looks as though the game is really geared for one of three controllers; the Microsoft Sidewinder, GravisGrlP, or Thrustmaster Phazer.  I have a Gravis Gamepad and couldn't get it to work effectively.  I used the keyboard, but that wasn't much fun.  Fortunately, as I mentioned earlier, you didn't have to learn different combinations for each fighter, which made it easier to move from fighter to fighter. But I found a number of times that it was difficult to pull off the special moves because I couldn't perform the combinations fast enough.  Now, I realize that fights aren't fair, but the only time I could get the combinations right was when the opponent was far enough away that I wouldn't do any damage anyway.

All in all, while this isn't a bad game, particularly if that's what you like, I just can't give it great marks.  If you are interested in the game, I'd suggest ordering it directly from Sierra.  I was at the local Egghead Software store a couple weeks ago, and they had it for $42.  Sierra's WWW page says the MSRP is $39.99.  (Gee, could that be why the local Egghead just closed?!)  However, Sierra's on-line order form lists it for $19.95.  So look around before you buy.  Better yet, try a friend's copy.  Then you can decide if it's a good game for you.

Sierra On-Line
Direct Sales
P.O. Box 3404
Salinas, CA 93912
<http://www.sierra.com/cyberg/>

5=> Product: Drag and File Gold For Windows 95, Utility
Reviewed By: Don Hughes, mailto:dhughes@wwdc.com
Requirements: Windows 95
Reviewed On: 486DX 100Mhz, 16MB RAM.
MSRP: $55.00

Canyon Software manufactures various distinct products for Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows NT. Included in their software lines are: Drag and File, Drag and View, Drag and Zip, and Quik DWG (AutoCAD) file viewer.  The review product is "Drag and File Gold" that is actually two programs in one--Drag and File Gold comes complete with Drag and Zip.

The program was supplied on two 1.44 floppies, and installation was easy and no errors were encountered.  If the product I am reviewing has a web site I always check it, looking  for upgrades or support Q&A to detect if the product has any reported problems.

The web site listed Canyon Software's new version of Drag and File Gold as 3.51a, (the version I had was 3.0).  Next I contacted  their support line and inquired about attaining the 3.51a upgrade.  The call manifested a cheerful surprise in the form of a real person answering Canyon Software's support line--no voice mail here.

The support person (MB) could not have been more pleasant to speak with, and she gave me direct to the point answers and instructions on how to attain the upgrade. Soon I was sailing out in Cyberspace to visit their site, and busily downloading the required file.

My first introduction to the shareware version of Drag and File was a few years ago. A friend of mine bought a computer magazine from England that contained a CD-ROM.  He kept calling me and  raving about the Drag and  File management program that came on the CD.  Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I dropped over to check out this "super" program he was bragging about.

I admit that it was one excellent package and I took a copy of the shareware home to try on my computer. The program worked great, however, as I had just purchased a commercial file management program to do a similar job, I removed Drag and File shareware from my hard drive.  Like fine wine that gets better with the passage of time, Canyon Software has not only improved the product, but maintained a high quality standard from top to bottom.


The Program: Drag and File Gold is first and foremost a very powerful file manager designed to make managing files under Windows an easier task. Canyon Software states: Drag and File Gold works at several levels of sophistication and integrates with other management and utility program. The result is an uncommon degree of flexibility: Drag and File Gold can be configured to meet your needs, your working style, and your experience. When you need more, Drag and File Gold delivers.

The Drag and Zip part of the program allows for management of: ZIP, GZ, Tar archive files. Extracting files from an archive is easy, the user just highlights the Zip file, which the displays the contents. Then you tag each one using the space bar, or right arrow key, then chose copy or move, and the file will be placed in the appropriate directory.

Built with in Drag and File Gold is another menu called "Archive" and here the user can create, virus scan, or check out an archive file"check out" extracts the files to a temp directory.

The Main program screen displays the driver bar, Toolbar, and menu choices.  Drag and File allows the user to open up to twelve drive windows.  A second launch bar sits on the Windows95/NT taskbar area, next to the Tray Icon (Speaker-Time at bottom right).

However, Drag and File is a single document interface application--each window has its own set of button bars, menu etc. The user can select many different functions from the button bar or the menus as follows:.

The File Menu: Copy, Move, Delete, Rename, Launch, Make Directory, Find Files, File Attributes, Associate and Multi Associate files, List All Files, Exit, Close all Drag and File Gold Windows.

The Disk Menu contains: Copy Diskette, Label Disk, Format Disk, Map Network Drive, Disconnect Network Drive, Network Neighborhood--to use the Network functions you must be connected to a network.

The Sort Menu: by Extension, by Filename, by Date, by Size, Unsorted, and Save.

Tree Menu: Expand one level, Expand Branch, Expand All, Collapse Branch, Collapse All.

Options Menu: Fonts, Settings, Customize Toolbar, View All Details, View Filenames Only, Show File Icons, Show Toolbar, Show DOS command Line, Recycle Bin, My Computer, Control Panel.

Actions Menu: Filter, Filter Set, View, Synchronize Directories, Set File Date and Time, Print Dir List, Print File List, Edit File, Tag, UN-Tag, Tag All, UN-Tag All, Tag Branch, Tag Files, Re-Tag.

Archive Menu: Create Archive, Virus Scan Archive, Check Out Archive.

Windows Menu: New Window, Cascade, Tile Horizontally, Tile Vertically, Refresh Drive, Refresh Files.

Along with the multitude of menu items available to the end user, one can also use key command to access the various functions within Drag and File Gold.

In today's computer world files tend to grow beyond the size of a single floppy is capable of holding (1.2 or 1.44 drives).  An advantage in Drag and File Gold is its ability to archive a large file or groups of files.  If the zip file is two large for one floppy you can still back it up: from the "Create Archive" menu selection or by clicking on the ZIP button, then select "Span Multiple Disks" from the Zip Setting tab, and simple follow the programs prompts..

Selecting "Span Multiple Disks" enables the user to pack large files on to many floppy disks, for backing up or transferring data between computers.  If you do not have a tape, Zip, or Jazz, or other type of system to back up data files, then this is ideal choice.

There is little doubt that Drag and File Gold is one of the best file managers I have had the pleasure to use under Windows 95. The program is rock solid, stable and gives the user more file power,  for their money.  Canyon Software on the front cover of the user manual boasts" Drag and File takes you where no file manager has gone before."  If anything this is an understatement of Drag and File Gold's true capabilities.

The program is one of the best file managers for Windows 95 and possibly the best overall program bargain for the money.  If you are in the market for a Windows 95 file manager and have access to the Internet, stop by Canyon Software's Web Page and download the Shareware version--you will not be disappointed.

Canyon Software
1537 Fourth Street, Suite 131
San Rafael, CA 94901
Fax (415) 453-6195
Sales Only (800) 280-3691
http://www.canyonsw.com

Ratings:
Install/Ease of Use: Gold
User Friendliness: Gold
Quality: Gold
Customer Support: Gold
End User:  All

6=> Clickables!

Sites Doug and I have come across this week you may be interested in:

None this issue.

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