CD Creator (1996) 0 Utility Windows

Adaptec CD Creator, today sold by Roxio, was a popular a tool for mastering and burning CD images. It was targeted primarily at the home and office markets and often bundled with CD-Burner hardware. Some OEM versions were customized for specific drives. Adaptec also sold a similar, but different, program for Apple Macintosh computers under the name Toast.

• 1.x/2.x

CircuitMaker (1998) 78 Engineering Windows

CircuitMaker, from MicroCode Engineering, is an easy-to-use schematic design and simulation tool. This product was discontinued in 2000 after being bought out by Altium, and is not related to the current software of a similar name.

• 6.x
• 2000

Citrix MetaFrame (1998) 3 Server Windows

Citrix MetaFrame is an add-on for Windows Terminal Server that provides Citrix ICA connectivity and additional management tools. Unlike WinFrame, this is not an entire OS.

• 1.0
• 4.0

CleanSweep (1994) 6 Utility Windows

CleanSweep, from Quarterdeck, is a utility that assists with uninstalling and removing leftover files. It also moves programs from one drive to another, to a backup that can be restored later, or to another computer.

• 2.x (95)
• 3.x
• 4.x

Colorado Backup (1996) 7 Utility DOS Windows

Colorado Backup is the software provided with HP Colorado tape drives.

• Set
• 1.70 for Win 95
• 3.22 for Win 95

Connectix RAM Doubler (1996) 4 Utility Windows

RAM Doubler is a utility for Windows 3.1 that uses advanced resource management and memory compression techniques to allow more applications to run side by side. It was designed to be simple and easy to use compared to some competing programs. It competed against similar tools such as SoftRam, Hurricane, and MagnaRam

• Windows 3.x

Corel Linux (1999) 6 Linux

Corel Linux was a short-lived commercial Linux distribution that attempted to compete directly against Microsoft Windows 98/2000.

• 1.x

Corel Office (1996) 12 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Windows

Corel Office is a software bundle that includes WordPerfect and a number of other office applications. It competed unsuccessfully against Microsoft Office. This bundle started out as "Borland Office", was briefly known as "Novell PerfectOffice", then "Corel Office", and under Corel it later became "WordPerfect Office". (Not to be confused with the unrelated ~1990 groupware program, also called "WordPerfect Office")

• 6.1
• 7

Corel Print House (1996) 1 Graphics Windows

A printing program for creating over 20 types of printing projects including cards, banners, signs, certificates, calendars, brochures, business forms, labels, membership cards, coupons, tickets, bookmarks, and doorknob hangers. It uses the 32-bit CorelDRAW 6 mini-engine.

• 1.1

CorelDraw! (1989) 82 Graphics Publishing Unix Windows

Corel Draw is a vector based drawing and illustration program. It is primarily a Windows application, but was ported to Mac OS, Mac OS X, Linux, CTOS and OS/2. It competed against Aldus Freehand, Adobe Illustrator, and Micrografx Designer.

• 3.5 (Unix)
• 6.0
• 7.0

Corporate Secretary (1998) 0 Document Windows

EZ Legal Software Corporate Secretary is a set of legal templates geared towards the operation and management of a company.

• 4.x

Crystal Reports (1992) 20 Windows

Crystal Reports, from Crystal Services/Seagate Technology Inc., is a powerful visual report creation tool for Microsoft Windows. Rather than a specific product, it is designed to work with almost any existing database product. reports from directly from within their applications. Crystal Reports was sometimes bundled with Microsoft Visual Basic. And it can be used with Crystal Reports Server for scheduled report generation.

• 7.x
• 8.x

DataKeeper (1999) 0 Utility Windows

PowerQuest DataKeeper 3.0, formerly from HighPoint Technologies, is a powerful real-time backup program. It features the ability to continuously monitor backups, works with any removable media, compression, and registry protection.

• 3.0

DeLorme Street Atlas (1991) 9 Reference Windows

Back before MapQuest or Google Maps, people could own an entire USA road map on a CD-ROM. DeLorme Street Atlas was one of the most popular road mapping products. You can search for street names or by phone number and zoom in on local neighborhoods. enabled users to create customized maps. focused on road maps. Later it competed with Microsoft Expedia Streets and Rand-McNally Route Planner.

• 4.0
• 5.0

Deneba Canvas (1994) 3 Graphics Publishing Windows

Deneba Canvas is a shape based drawing and illustration program for the PC and mac. Unlike other publishing programs of the time, Canvas combined the ability to use vector graphics and raster images. It could also function as a word processor.

• 5.x

Digital UNIX (1995) 10 Unix

Formerly OSF/1, in 1994 after the Open Software Foundation (run by DEC, IBM, and HP) ceased involvement, Digital Equipment Corporation renamed the OS to "Digital UNIX". In 1998, DEC was bought out by Compaq and the product was again renamed, to Tru64 UNIX.

• 3.2G
• 4.0B
• 4.0D
• 4.0E

Dilbert Break A Day (1997) 2 Novelty Windows MacOS

Released in 1997 by DayBreak Software, Break A Day is a calendar that shows a different Dilbert comic every day. Includes a 16-bit Windows 3.1 version, 32-bit Windows 9x/NT version, and a Mac version.

• 1

Diskeeper (2001) 4 Utility Windows

Diskeeper is a professional disk defragmenting tool with versions for both 9x and NT. It includes features such as scheduling and background defragmentation.

• 6.0

Dr Solomons Anti-Virus Toolkit (1997) 13 Utility Windows

Dr Solomon's Antivirus was a top rated commercial virus scanning suite. There were versions for DOS, Windows 3.1, 95, 98, Novell, SCO Unix, Solaris, and OS/2.

• 7.x

DVMpeg (1999) 1 Video Audio Windows

DVMpeg, from Darim Vision Co., Ltd, is an MPEG encoder that can convert Windows AVI files to MPEG.

• 5.0

Easy Chefs One Million Recipes (1999) 2 Reference Windows

Easy Chefs One Million Recipes, from American Cooking Resources, is one big multimedia CD that contains a huge card file of food recipes. It literally has over a million recipes stored in its searchable database.

• 4.5

Encarta (1993) 50 Reference Windows MacOS

Microsoft Encarta was a home oriented interactive encyclopedia that was often sold with new OEM machines. Unlike a paper encyclopedia, Encarta took full advantage of being on a computer, with updates from the Internet, sound clips and movies, interactive charts and games, and good navigation.

• 1997
• 1998
• 1999

Encarta Virtual Globe (1997) 5 Reference Windows

Encarta Virtual Globe is a companion multimedia product to Microsoft Encarta, and was also included on the Encarta Reference Suite DVD. Microsoft Encarta Virtual Globe contains detailed geographical and topographical maps and information, a huge database of places, geography games, satellite photographs, and 3D "flights" over major landmarks.

• 1998 Edition

Europress Fun School (1999) 0 Windows

Fun School 7 contains five activities designed to motivate and educate. Linked to the UK Government's national curriculum and supporting the national literacy and numeracy objectives, these activities cover the subjects of writing, sequencing and counting.

• 7

Expedia Streets (1997) 4 Reference Windows

Expedia Streets, from Microsoft, is a multimedia street atlas similar to Delorme Street Atlas. It competed with DeLorme Street Atlas, and Rand McNally Route Planner.

• 98 (6.0)