Screen Shot Gallery -- GeoWorks® Shareware
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During the "golden age" of PC computing from the early-1980's to the mid-1990's, if you were searching for
an inexpensive shareware or Public Domain program you had two choices -- you could visit your favorite computer software store and browse
racks of shareware programs on 5¼" floppy disks, or, from the comfort of your own computer, download a GeoWorks shareware program from your
favorite bulletin board service (BBS).
The shareware "try before you buy" concept offers users free trials of software. Most commercial software companies will not let you return products once their shrinkwrapped packages have been opened. After finding the shareware program that best meets your needs, to both obtain the full-featured program free of "nag" screens and to support the authors who offer these low-cost software alternatives, it is only right to "register" the program by paying the author's registration fee. Shareware programs can cost tens or even hundreds of times less than comparable commercial software. |
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Desktop Publishing
Desktop publishing software was popular from the mid-1980's to mid-1990's. A combination of word processing and graphics tools, DTP software is used to create newsletters, fliers, presentations, large publications, etc. |
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Copyright © 1993 GeoWorks GeoPublish is actually the GeoWrite program taken from GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0 and marketed as a shareware "desktop publisher" program. GeoPublish features undo, cut, copy, paste, delete, find and replace, word/line count, page/section numbers, condensed/galley/draft with/without styles view options, go to page, zoom, automatic layout recalc, layers, title page, headers, footers, snap-to grid, guidelines, append/insert page layouts, create/edit section, text wrap, hide, duplicate, geometric shapes, flip, rotate, scale, skew, polyline, align to grid, object distribution, text justification, line/paragraph spacing, style sheets, tabs, indents, borders, 9 fonts, font viewer, toolbars for drawing, text, formatting, etc., DTP-style rulers, 1-4 user level settings, on-line help, and more. The spell checker is disabled in this shareware version. The registration fee was US$87.90 which gave the purchaser the full version of GeoWorks Ensemble 2.01. This version only runs on 486 and earlier CPUs. This version was released on two 1.44MB floppies. Total install size: 5.00MB |
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New Deal Publish 2.5 Copyright © 1996 New Deal, Inc. As GeoWorks had done earlier, New Deal, Inc. took the NewWrite program from New Deal Office and released it as a shareware "desktop publisher" program. On the outside, New Deal Publisher looks identical to its GeoWorks predecessor. But inside, there are new and improved features. They include the ability to run on 586-class CPUs, run on DOS, OS/2, and Windows 95, save files with long names (but still writes DOS 8.3 file to media), margins can now be changed by dragging them in the editing window, save document as template, password protection, set custom font size, etc. New Deal Publish also has all of the great features pioneered in GeoPublish 2.01 and on-line help. The registration price was US$89.90 which entitled the purchaser to the full New Deal Office 2.5 suite. This version was released on five 720K floppies. Total install size: 5.67MB |
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