FrameMaker (1990) 4 Publishing Unix MacOS Other Windows

FrameMaker, originally from Frame Technology Corporation and later Adobe, is a professional document system for creating large, complex documents with highly structured layout. It was often accompanied by FrameReader.

• 2.x
• 3.x
• 4.x
• 5.0

FrameReader (1996) 2 Publishing Windows

FrameReader is a document viewer for Frame Technology/Adobe FrameMaker.

• 5.x

Framework (1984) 13 Word Processor Spreadsheet Graphics Communications Database DOS

Originally created by Forefront Corporation for Ashton-Tate and first released in 1984, Framework was an early integrated office suite for DOS. It has a built in word processor, spreadsheet, database, outliner, graphing, and telecommunications.

• 1.0
• Premier 1.x
• II
• III
• XE
• IV

FreeHand (1988) 6 Graphics Publishing MacOS Windows

FreeHand is a vector based drawing program used to create illustrations. It is similar to CorelDraw and Adobe Illustrator. Initially it offered more features and flexibility than illustrator. It was created by Altsys, sold through Aldus, then sold to Macromedia, and then finally was assimilated by Adobe. Later versions repositioned itself as a content creation system for the web through Flash. The final version was Freehand MX (version 11) in 2003.

• 1.0
• 2.0
• 3.1
• 4.0
• 5.0

FrontRunner (1988) 1 DOS

FontRunner, from Apex Software, is a dBase application compiler that specialized in making small, fast, terminate-and-stay-resident database applications. This makes it possible for DOS application users to call up data entry screens without the need to exit the program they are running. It supports redefinable keyboard macros, and can copy data from a DOS application screen into its database. To reduce memory usage it omits dBase's reporting and label generating capabilities. Version 1.2 and later support EMS memory usage.

• 1.x

FT Pro (1991) 2 Database DOS

FT/Pro, from Block Development Corporation, is a form editor/designer that makes use of VGA graphics. It is capable of importing forms from FormTool. FT/Pro contains an extensive set of powerful drawing tools. It supports variable sizes, colors, typefaces, graphic images, and can print high quality forms on laser printers.

• 1.0

GEM Desktop Publisher (1988) 6 Publishing DOS

GEM Desktop Publisher, from Digital Research, is a GEM 3.x based Desktop publishing program. It is not as sophisticated as Ventura Publisher. It uses a VMM (Virtual Memory Manager) in place of EMS/XMS, and requires a hard disk. It can be used with GEM Artline to provide illustrations.

• 2.x

GEM WordChart (1986) 1 Database DOS

WordChart is a simple flat file database with customizable forms for the GEM Desktop.

• 1.0

GeoPublish (1994) 1 Word Processor Publishing DOS

GeoPublish was a rudimentary desktop publishing program for the Apple II and C64 that ran under GEOS. In 1993, Geoworks re-released their commercial standalone Geoworks Writer product as a shareware product reprising the name GeoPublish.

• 2.x

GeoWorks Writer (1991) 0 Word Processor Publishing DOS

After the release of GeoWorks Pro, GeoWorks released stripped down versions that only included specific application. This included GeoWorks Desktop, GeoWorks Designer, and GeoWorks Writer.

• 1991

GRE Test Preparation (1991) 2 Education Windows

GRE Test Preparation is a software program that aids one in practicing taking the GRE (Graduate Record Examinations) general test.

• 2.1

Greetings (1996) 0 Publishing Windows

Greetings, from Parsons Technologies, is a budget greeting card, poster, and banner generator for Macintosh and Windows. It includes a set of graphic clipart. Greetings is more free-form than most card creators and does not try to guide the user through each step. It was sometimes given away as a freebee. Not to be confused with Microsoft Greetings.

• 2.0

Guided Tour of Macintosh (1984) 2 Education MacOS

This is a software and audio cassette demonstration of the Apple Macintosh. It visually guides you through the use of Macintosh, the Finder, and typical Macintosh applications. This software and cassette were bundled with the Apple Macintosh System Software.

• Mac128k
• Mac Plus

Guided Tour of MacPaint and MacWrite (1984) 0 Education MacOS

This is a software and audio cassette demonstration of Apple MacWrite and MacPaint. It visually guides you through the use of the applications. This tour was bundled with the Apple Macintosh System and MacWrite-MacPaint software.

• Jan 1984

Guru (1986) 1 Database DOS

Guru is an "Artificial Intelligence" system used to build expert system databases. This interactive demo provides a limited functionality version of the software, and sample applications that you can try.

• 1.x

Halo DPE (1987) 0 Graphics Publishing DOS

Halo DPE (Desktop Publishing Editor) was an attempt by Media Cybernetics to enter the desktop publishing market by shoehorning additional text processing abilities in to their Dr. Halo II product.

• 1.x

Hayden Ensemble (1985) 1 Word Processor Spreadsheet Presentations Database MacOS

Ensemble, created by Controle X and published by Hayden Software, is an integrated office suite that includes Spreadsheet, Graphing, Word Processing, and Database functionality. It was notable as claiming to be the first integrated suite on the Macintosh, before Lotus Jazz or Microsoft Works as well as its ability to run on both the Mac 512k and the original Mac 128k.

• 1.0

Health and Diet (1993) 0 Reference Education DOS

Health & Diet, from Digital Systems Research, Inc, is a friendly and feature rich database program for DOS that assists users in keeping track of their weight loss and eating habits.

• 1.x

Hello Charlie (1984) 0 Word Processor Spreadsheet Graphics Database DOS

Hello Charlie is a suite of home-oriented rudimentary office products for the IBM PC. It includes a spreadsheet, database, word processor, drawing program, and a typing tutor. It was released in 1984 by Orion Software, an Alabama company better known for its early IBM PC games.

• 1984

HiJaak (1991) 1 Graphics Publishing DOS Windows

The original HiJaak program, from Inset Systems, is a powerful screen capture tool and image converter that can perform batch conversion between a large number of formats. The later Windows version are a powerful raster-to-vector graphics conversion and editing tool that can convert between a huge number of bitmap and vector file formats.

• 2.x (DOS)
• 2.0 (Win)
• 3.0
• 95
• 4.0

Homework Helper (1985) 1 Education DOS

Homework Helper is a series of educational titles from Spinnaker Software.

• 1

HyperCard (1988) 4 Other Database MacOS

Hypercard is a graphical card "stack" oriented application and database programming tool for the Apple Macintosh. It features hypertext and hyperlinking of graphics and buttons, and includes an easy to use scripting language called HyperTalk. In many ways, it resembled a web browser, however it had no networking capability.

• 1.x
• 2.x

HyperPad (1990) 1 Database DOS

HyperPad is a tool for DOS similar to Apple's HyperCard. You can create pages of text and make hyperlinks between them.

• Demo

IBM - I Can Be Anything (1983) 0 Education DOS

Part of the IBM Education Series, I Can Be Anything is a program that lets children age eight and older create graphics. The program comes with 250 redesigned shapes grouped by occupation and is useful in stimulating conversation about occupational goals and educational requirements necessary to attain these goals.

• 1.00

IBM - Language Arts Series Demonstration (1985) 0 Education DOS

This is a demonstration disk for a series of educational software programs. These include, spelling, vocabulary, speech, punctuation, sentence, and touch typing programs.

• 1.00