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Other software for legacy PC
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This section contains important and useful additional programs
for Windows 95/98/ME/XP Which I recommend to use.
[ Table of content ]:
1. Gopher clients
2. Telnet and Networks
3. Mail Clients Software
4. IRC Clients Software
5. Virtualization and emulators
6. Archivators Software
7. CD/DVD Drive software
8. Video, audio convertors and grabbers
9. Psychotronic tech and fields
10. Medicine and health
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Gopher clients
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To launch the address bar, press the "G" key and enter
the address with gopher://
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| Console Lynx browser for DOS 2.8.2 rel 1 [723 kb] |
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For serfing in Gopherspace from DOS and 386+ CPU.
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| Console Lynx browser for Win32 2.8.2 rel 1 [674 kb] |
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Console browser for Win32 that allows you to visit
Gopher:// holes
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Example of work in Windows 98
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Example of work in Windows XP
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| Console Lynx browser for Win32 2.8.3 dev 3 [625 kb] |
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Console browser for Win32 that allows you to visit
Gopher:// holes
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| Console Lynx browser for Win32 2.8.3 dev 17 [746 kb] |
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Console browser for Win32 that allows you to visit
Gopher:// holes
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| Console Lynx Browser for Win32 2.8.5 rel 1 [1 478 kb] |
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Version of the popular console browser for Windows 9x-XP.
Unlike the above versions, it supports not only http://
and gopher:// protocol, but also SSL. Does not support
TLS 1.2-1.3.
To launch the browser on Windows 98/Me, change the
indirect file paths in the lynx98.bat file (C:\YOUR_FOLDER\)
to direct addresses, for example, C:\lynx24\ This is the
latest version of the browser 2024 that I know of.
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| Gopherus [191 kb] |
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Simple console Gopher client. There is no way to
expand to full screen. Minimum of functions.
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Nice graphical Gopher client. Looks like a classic
two-column Ws Gopher client. Makes Gopher surfing
very comfortable. But very weak functionality.
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| Little Gopher client [752 kb] |
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Telnet and Networks
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| Agnitum Outpost Firewall 3.0 for Win32 [1 800 kb] |
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The best Firewall I know for Win32, and especially for
Windows 98/Me. Allows to control the launch of network
programs, and not just network attacks.
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| Console Prompt ANSI Color FIX for WinNT [14 kb] |
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Fixes your default console cmd.exe colors to be compliant
with the ANSI specification. Includes replacement 16x16x16c
and 32x32x256c icon.
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| Password unlocker for Win32 [30 kb] |
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Password unlocker the tool for restoring forgotten Windows
software passwords hidden by asterisks (***). For example
browsers or mail passwords.
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| Exterm 1.2 for Win32 [403 kb] |
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Terminal manager of AT commands for Com ports.
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| MTelnet 1.2 for Win32 [140 kb] |
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A good console terminal with good support for ASCII
graphics; to switch to full-screen mode, press Alt+Enter.
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| Net Term 3.42 for Win32 [2 074 kb] |
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This archive contains two different installations of the
same terminal version.
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| Net Term 4.2 for Win32 [1 421 kb] |
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A window classic terminal that operates on the basis
of its own color schemes and has a lot of settings for
the user. Connection is possible both via the network
and via a modem. Select the Terminal font as the main
font, and also make fine adjustments to the emulation
before starting work.
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| Net Runner 0.09 for Win32 [79 kb] |
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Good support for ASCII graphics, but obvious problems
with its display and speed on single-core computers.
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| NT Crt 3.46 for Win32 [1 803 kb] |
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A simple terminal with the ability to download/upload
files. Ideal for working with network devices. To display
ASCII graphics correctly, select the Terminal font in the
program.
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| Tara Terminal 2.3 for Win32 [942 kb] |
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A simple windowed Telnet terminal; to display ASCII
graphics correctly, select the Terminal font.
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| Putty 0.61 for Win32 [1 804 kb] |
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Free SSH and Telnet client for Win32 systems.
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| Sync Term 1.0 for Win32 [2 028 kb] |
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Good support for ASCII graphics, fairly stable and fast
work with BBS on a single-core 2 GHz computer, switching
to full screen mode Alt+Enter.
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Simple and fast windowed terminal client for Windows
9x/NT. Despite the strange default color scheme, this
is the best solution that I have been using for a long
time. Minimum settings, maximum speed!
Unfortunately, there is no way to upload and download
files.
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| Tel star telnet client 1.8.2.3 [488 kb] |
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The most powerful terminal for Windows 9x-NT/2000/XP
Has a lot of flexible settings. The best you can use
on single core computers. I use this for file sharing
on a daily basis.
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| Zoc terminal 3.16 [988 kb] |
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Mail Clients Software
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| nPOPuk 3.05 for Win98 [226 kb] |
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A wonderful simple and most importantly minimalistic email
POP3/SMTP/SSL client for Windows 9x, 2023 year version!
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| nPOPuk 3.05 for Win32 [744 kb] |
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A wonderful simple and most importantly minimalistic email
POP3/SMTP/SSL client for Windows 2000+, 2023 year version!
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| Pegasus mail 4.51 for Win32 [9 526 kb] |
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Pegasus Mail Windows 32-bit for Win98/ME/NT/2000/XP.
Pegasus Mail can act as a complete internal mail system
on its own without needing further servers or components:
it can send and receive Internet mail on its own using
standard protocols (SMTP, IMAP and POP3).
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| PalMail 0.60.0.33 for Win32 [295 kb] |
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PalMail is a small, fast and secure automatic e-mail
POP3/SMTP checker. Its main purpose is notifying you
when new mail arrives and allowing you to get rid of spam
before you download your e-mails into your e-mail software.
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| Ultrafunk Popcorn POP mail client for Win32 [250 kb] |
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Popcorn is a must lightweight and portable e-mail client
for Windows (POP, SMTP).
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IRC Clients Software
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| Best IRC portable 2.2.1.4 for Win32 [137 kb] |
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Simple IRC client with scripts support.
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| Hydra IRC portable 0.3.4.9 for Win32 [785 kb] |
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HydraIRC is a free, simple, and complete IRC) client,
allowing you to set up a chat channel or a network
program that you can completely configure.This client
is for those users who love an endless number of windows
with statistics.
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| Pirch98 1.0 for Win32 [1 740 kb] |
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Windows colored IRC client you can use to get in touch
with your friends or other people from all around the world
in a simple and fast manner. It don't support SSL! IRC
veterans still use it today.
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| Visual IRC '98 1.10 for Win32 [1 122 kb] |
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Friendly Windows colored IRC client with many settings.
Does not support SSL! A clasical client what became legend
of his time.
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| X-chat 2.3.3d portable for Win32 [1 021 kb] |
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XChat is an IRC chat program for both Windows.
It allows you to join multiple IRC channels (chat rooms)
at the same time, talk publicly, private one-on-one
conversations etc. Even file transfers are possible.
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Virtualization and emulators
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| Connectix Virtual PC 4.2 Fixed for Win32 [18 740 kb] |
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This powerful cross-platform compatibility solution
that enables a single PC to run combinations of PC
based operating systems simultaneously. I have been
using this solution for decades. Because this solution
works in Windows98, Windows2000 and WindowsXP.
This virtual machine allows you to emulate work in Dos,
Windows up to XP, as well as Unix, QNX and so on.
It works stably in Windows98. The maximum allowed
configuration of the virtual system is 512 mb ram and
20 gb hdd. The archive also contain documentation,
boot fdd disk images, and so on.
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| Emulator 3000 for Win32 [1 465 kb] |
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Multiplatform emulator of eight-bit computers, including
ZX Spectrum, CM64, etc. Supports work with disk images.
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Archivators Software
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| Active Archive Password Recovery 4.50 [2 308 kb] |
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A system for recovering forgotten acrhive passwords for
Windows 2000/XP; for work in Windows 98 you need install
KernelX extension.
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| Arj 3.20 for Win32 [457 kb] |
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The latest working version for Windows 98 of the ARJ
console archiver.
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| Freebyte Zip 2.3.1 for Win32 [291 kb] |
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The latest working version for Windows 98 of the archiver
for ZIP 2011.
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| Power archiver 8.6.0 for Win32 [2 576 kb] |
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PowerArchiver is a file management tool that supports
over 60 formats, including ZIP, ZIPX, 7z, RAR, TAR
and more.
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| PeaZip 5.5.1 for Win32 [8 544 kb] |
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PeaZip is a free, Open Source file and archive manager.
Create 7Z, ARC, BZ2, GZ, *PAQ, PEA, QUAD/BALZ, TAR, UPX,
WIM, ZIP. Extract over 150 file formats as ACE, CAB, DMG,
ISO, RAR, UDF, ZIPX. This version support Windows 98. On
Pentium 133/32 mb ram the archiver slows down.
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| Win Rar 3.30 final EXECUTABLE for Win32 [1004 kb] |
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| Rar lang pack [318 kb] |
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| Win Rar 6.02 for Windows XP [2 976 kb] |
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The latest version of the archiver worked in Windows XP.
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| Win Ace archiver 2.11 for Win32 [2 692 kb] |
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WinAce-Archiver is a fine utility you can use to manage
all of your archives. It offers support for .zip, .cab,
.rar, .arj, .arc, and .lha file formats.
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| 7-zip archiver 9.04 [375 kb] |
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The latest stable version 7-zip works without additional
updates in Windows 98 SE.
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| ZipMagic 2000 for Win32 [6 024 kb] |
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Most innovative, powerful and easy-to-use file compression
program for Win32.
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CD/DVD Drive software
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| Virtual CD 3.0.8 [4 553 kb] |
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Virtual CD for Windows 95 - ME. Files format: VCD
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| FarStone Virtual Drive 7.11 for Win32 [14 565 kb] |
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Are you tired of scratching or losing your favorite PC
games and music CDs? Is it annoying to swap CD/DVDs in
and out of your drive and wait for them to load? Do you
hate carrying around your CDs and DVDs to use on your
laptop? This program will solve your problems.
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| Hekko Virtual CD 4.0.100.1190 for Windows XP [1 022 kb] |
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Hekko Virtual CD creates a virtual cdrom drive on your
Windows PC. This allows you to make images of your
favorite CR-Roms and use them without inserting a CD
into a CD-Rom drive. This not only improves the speed
at which you can access the data on the disk, but also
stops the really annoying disk switching that is required
every time you run a game.
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| Img Burn 2.5.8.0 [3 079 kb] |
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Utility for burning CD/DVD discs for Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP,
very good and multifunctional.
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| Small CD writer for Win32 [388 kb] |
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The smallest portable CD/DVD burning software in the
world! Unfortunately, the GUI is only Russian. But
GUI is so simple that it does not need translation.
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| CyberLink Power DVD 3.0 + DeLux + skins [28 683 kb] |
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The best ever DVD player for Win32. If you often watch
DVDs on your computer, then you know how many problems
arise with the dvd disc menu on computer. This doesn't
happen with PowerDVD!
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| DVD Decrypter 3.5.4.0 for Win32 [877 kb] |
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Allows to bypass DVD regional protection by creating
an ISO disk image.
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| DVDx 2.3 for Win32 [2 026 kb] |
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DVDx allows you to convert DVD to VCD2.0/SVCD1.0/AVI
in one step. It produces good quality movies in AVI/MPEG
format and you don't need to have 5Gb free on your hard
disk! Before installation, install DIVX and KLite codec
pack codecs from this Gopher:// if you are using Win9x.
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| DvdPlay 1.0.0.1 for Win32 [45 kb] |
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"Easter egg" DVD player built into the Windows 98 installation
and which cannot be installed, but only unpacked from the archive.
Very simple and very fast.
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| Xing DVD Player 2.03 Fixed for Win32 [1 191 kb] |
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The most popular DVD player for Windows 95. Features include
automatic performance configuration for your computer. DirectX
6+ required!
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Video, audio convertors and grabbers
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| ImTOO 3GP Video Converter for Windows XP [14 254 kb] |
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Program is a converter of 3GP video files to other video
formats, extracting audio. Features: converter MPG, MPEG1,
MPEG2, MPEG4, WMV, MP4, 3GP, MOV, RM, DV, YUV, H264 to
3GPP format converter 3GP to MPEG, AVI, VOB, MPEG4, WMV
and other formats extract audio from 3GP video to MP2,
MP3, AC3, RA, M4A formats converter MP3, WAV, AC3, WMA,
M4A, OGG, AAC to audio 3GP (audio only) batch conversion
mode selecting and configuring audio and video codecs
setting conversion parameters for each file or folder
preliminary.
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| VirtualDub 1.5.8. for Win32 [678 kb] |
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VirtualDub is a video capture and processing program.
It features fast capturing, process files larger than the
2 gigabyte limit, optimized for linear editing, support
for Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1 video and layer 3 audio,
real-time and near-realtime video processing, video job
queues, and much more.
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| Cool edit pro 2000 for Win32 [10 742 kb] |
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Cool Edit 2000 can turn PC into a recording studio with
all of the features used by professional audio engineers.
You can use it to record your own music, voice or other
audio, edit it, mix it with other audio or musical parts,
add effects like Reverb, Chorus, and Echo to it, equalize
it, and master it so that you can burn it to a CD, post
it on the web.
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| Steinberg Wave Lab 3.00 for Win32 [6 793 kb] |
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Wavelab is a multitrack 24-bit, 96 kHz audio editor.
Features: Red-Book CD burning, DirectX and VST effects,
audio analysis, batch processing, audio file database,
sampler support and more.
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| Mayah EditPro 2.20 for Win32 [1 139 kb] |
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Mayah EditPro is an MP3 file editor. It allows you to edit
mp3 files directly, meaning there is no lengthy reencoding
or accumulated quality loss when saving a file.
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| CD Ex 1.20 for Win32 [805 kb] |
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Cdex is a is utility which can record Digital Audio (DA)
tracks from CD into the files. The recorded audio tracks
can be stored as WAV or MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3) files.
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| AY Emul 1.5 for Win32 + ZX music [5 187 kb] |
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Emulator AY-3-8910 ZX spectrum, player and Music Ripper
with music from abyssice.trd (is received from FIDO,
ZX.SPECTRUM) abyssice.diz is original and come with
abyssice.trd together.
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Psychotronic tech and fields
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| Brain Wave Generator 3.1.4 for Win32 [1 200 kb] |
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A sound player of psychotronic waves for the brain
of a special frequency for programming your brain and
perception of the world around you. Attention! Please
consult with your doctor before use!
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| Addtional presets for Brain Wave [185 kb] |
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Additional 100 presets for programming your brain, sorted
by subdirectories and topics.
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| Stobo brain washing for DOS [19 kb] |
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Strobo program designed to enter an altered state
of consciousness. Launched via the command line:
gluki - causes crazy images, meditate - relaxes well,
psycho - acid trip, speedhed - to improve the mind.
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| Pinwell for Win32 [10 kb] |
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Zombifying rotating black and white spirals.
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| Luminati for DOS [507 kb] |
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Psychedelic effects and experiences on the monitor screen.
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| Spiral Trip for DOS [16 kb] |
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You need to look to the center of the screen, relaxing
your eyes, no need to strain. After a few seconds, you
may feel an unusual (and possibly unpleasant) sensation
in your eyeballs. After 30 seconds of viewing, textures
will begin to float when looking at objects.
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| Demos of Trip 23 in 1 Roman pack for DOS [1 380 kb] |
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DEMO is a special type of computer art, the end result
of which is an executable file, which contains elements
of three-dimensional computer graphics and tracker music,
most demos are small in size (about 64 KB)). DEMO data
perfectly complements a psychedelic or dissociative trip.
Please consult with your doctor before viewing!
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Medicine and health
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| FitBody Lite 2.0 Fixed for Win32 [14 091 kb] |
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FitBody Lite is a cross-platform health & fitness software
application which plans & tracks nutritional, workout, and
medical information. By simply dragging & dropping foods
from the expandable 5,500 item food database into the user
logbook over 79 nutrients are summarized and profiled
against five user-defined diet plans.
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| Integrative Medicine ACCESS for Win32 [2 626 kb] |
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Integrative Medicine ACCESS-Patient Information Integrativ
Medicine produces the definitive suite of information for
medical professionals and consumers interested in combining
the best of conventional and alternative medicine.
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| Medinsure Magic 3.4 Fixed for Win32 [409 kb] |
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Medinsure Magic provides a systematic way to keep a record
of your family medical costs, medical history, and to ensure
that your insurance claims have been paid.
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| NaturBase Pro 1.5 Fixed for Win32 [10 729 kb] |
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NaturBase portable RIP is a graphical herbal database
830+ Herb Abstracts, 600+ Nutritional Components,
360 Actions, 1480 Indications, 3300 Medical Terms,
440 Herb Illustrations. Repeatedly tested for work
in Windows XP and below. Read the instruction!
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| Persona Medical Records 1.2 Fixed for Win32 [3 709 kb] |
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The PMR Program maintains your medical history in a single
database, allowing you to keep track of dates, costs, and
other important information regarding prescriptions, doctor
visits, hospital stays, symptoms you experience, and much
more.
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| HealthSoft CD 1.0 Fixed for Win32 [45 524 kb] |
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This is a portable version of the cult medical encyclopedia
for Windows HealthSoft by H.Winter Griffith MD. I have
builted three encyclopedias into one archive. Just run
mviewer2 and open MVB file with encyclopedia what you
need. Everything works in WindowsXP and below. The
following databases are available:
1) HealthSoft's Complete Guide to Prescription and Non
Prescription DRUGS is organized by drug generic name,
and in a few instances, by drug-class name.
2) Use the Complete Guide to Surgery to look up descriptions
of a surgical procedure, what to expect, postoperative care
information, and suggestions to help you cope with an
emergency situation. The guide also includes helpful
illustrations and audible pronunciations for unfamiliar
medical terms.
3) Use the Complete Guide to Symptoms & Illnesses to look
up signs and symptoms of illness, causes, prevention
information, appropriate health care, treatment procedures,
and when to call your doctor.
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| Viruses encyclopedia CD Fixed for Win32 [33 649 kb] |
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A full virus encyclopedia in portable version, containing
a detailed description of viruses, DNA, RNA, images of
molecules, symptoms, etc. Details on working in the
readme.txt file.
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