[Originally sent to a friend but I thought this might be of interest]
Some time ago I was browsing around a BBS and came across a DOS suite.
I made a mental note of it but didn't write down the area or name.
Went back to get it and it took forever searching the BBS's CDs to find it.
This suite used to be commercial, apparently, and is dated 1995.
It is fairly complete with 10 applications.
Word processor - files up to 20MB (not all in memory of course).
Spreadsheet - Lotus compatible. 702 columns x 10,000 rows
Database - dBase III compatible
Addressbook
Alarms
Calendar Maker
Calculator - accessible from anywhere
Terminal - 9600bps, X/YMODEM
Data Encryption
DOS Shell
Information Manager
Mail Merge
Mailing Labels
Report Creator
Spell Checker - 8,000 and/or 56,000 words
System Information
Time Manager
To-Do List - accessible from anywhere
The docs says it can be installed down to a 360K floppy but it's
taking up 11MB on my drive at the moment.
It has mouse support. It's also an open-type environment where if you
outgrow certain modules you can always set it up to launch something
else in lieu of a standard module (Lotus 1-2-3 for instance in place
of the included spreadsheet).
There's also an area, I think, to set up separate launchers.
And just like the Linux Cliq apps I was trying out you can also
start/run just a certain module instead of the whole thing.
'MW S' for instance would start the spreadsheet standalone.
That all sounds well and good but how does it run?
Well, Not too good on this Tandy (NEC V20, 736K, EMS, DOS 5, SCSI HD).
Even though it's text-based it's rather slow. It has the zooming windows I
abhor so much in programs and there's no way to disable that as far as I
can tell.
Comparing it to say Net-Tamer (one of the slowest text-based[?]
programs around) or the DeskMate GUI, MicroWorks is slower me thinks.
However, when I ran it with a disk cache loaded (HyperWare's SpeedDisk)
it seemed to improve quite a bit.
The installation would quit at the same point twice. Not sure why
but I think it was when it was going to install the help files.
Since they are in a self-extracting file called HELP.EXE there may
have been a conflict with the DOS or 4DOS help file.
No matter as I manually ran HELP.EXE and the spell checker selfexe files
in the installed directory.
There are two doc files, one at a reasonable 180K or so and one very
huge file (8.5MB!!). I believe it's a Microsoft Word doc.
That said, MultiWorks for DOS looks like something worth investigating,
especially if one has a Survival PC like a 286 or so with limited
hardware (low RAM, small MFM/RLL/IDE drive).
If you're interested in checking it out some time I can put it up
on the page for download.
I definitely wouldn't try it on your Tandy HX though.
Oh, archive size is 1MB.
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