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Organic Chemistry Nomenclature

Organom (94KB zip) added 15/12/01
Status: Freeware
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Author: Ian Lee, Bsc(Chemistry)
Description: "This program is ideal for GCSE and A' Level revision, it provides a very simple approach to the rules for naming organic compounds. It covers all the common functional groups for alkyl and aryl compounds with random examples generated and named, or you can construct your own molecule to be named. This program was originally written in 1984 for the BBC Micro and has now been recompiled to work on a modern PC running Windows 95+ without any other additional software required."


BBC Basic

BeebEm 0.8 for Windows (663KB zip) added 01/06/01
Status: Freeware
Homepage: http://www.allcomm.co.uk/~jake/oddballs/beeb.htm
Author: Dave Gilbert
Description: "a BBC Micro Model 'B' emulator for the PC. Some disk and rom images with a few games are provided to get you started. Self-installs and runs immediately. You may also want BBC File Explorer to import files from a BBC disk onto your PC and BBCIM (included with above) to convert archive files to a disk image that can be used by the emulator. There is an upgrade BeebEm 1.33 for Windows 95+ available (but I was unable to get it to work). Lots more information and software on Richard Gellman's site and The BBC Lives."

BBC BASIC for Windows 95/98/Me/NT4/2000 added 05/11/01
Status: Free evaluation version. Full version £25
Homepage: http://www.rtrussell.co.uk/products/bbcwin/bbcwin.html
Author: Richard Russell
Description: "This is a brand-new version of the original BBC BASIC for PCs running Windows, which is greatly enhanced compared to the earlier BBC BASIC (86). It includes a copyright-free compiler so that your programs can be converted to self-contained executables."


Online Demo Creator

Viewlet2 for 95/98/MacOS/Linux/etc (6.2MB) added 11/07/00
Status: Freeware
Homepage: http://www.qarbon.com/
Author: Qarbon.com
Description: "A powerful tool for creating demos, animated help files and audiovisual FAQ's that play over the web. Produces a very compact movie file of screen shots or other images, which plays in a browser (IE4+ or Netscape 4.06+), on any platform and without a plug-in. For preparing viewlets on older machines (than Pentium II 350 MHz 64 MB Ram) use Leelou, the original program."


General Election Simulation

Election.zip for Windows 95/98 (44 KB)
Status: Freeware, updated: 11 June1999
Author: Penny Lee
Description: "A program that mimics this event for use in school. Links directly to the Internet for information on the candidates for each of the four main parties. A voting booth is provided and results worked out at the end of the election. Easily updated for changes to the title of the election, candidates' names and internet addresses. Requires Visual Basic 5 runtime files."


Logo for Windows

MSWLogo 6.4 for Windows 95/98/NT (1.4 MB)
Status: Freeware, Windows 3 version also available
Homepage: http://www.softronix.com
Author: Softronics Inc
Description: "A program that allows the building of procedures as well as all the other programming features of logo plus a good help file. It is very powerful and covers just about everything possible in Logo, including support for joysticks and robot-type projects. Prints bitmap screen dumps and procedure lists. Comes with lots of interesting examples. The MS stands for Multiple Sclerosis, and any proceeds go towards research."


FlexiData/FlexiWrite/FlexiCAD


Status: Payware
Homepage: http://www.flexible.co.uk
Author: Dave Walton (Flexible Software)
Description: "A set of applications called FlexiWRITE, FlexiDATA, and FlexiCAD for word processing, data handling and computer aided design. Suitable for RM Nimbus PC186 to the latest machines running Windows 98. These programs have been designed (with some help from me) for the simplicity of use desirable in education yet have many advanced features. Demo versions are not available but visit this site for further information."

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