Like General Sherman's bummers, this misbegotten CD-ROM badgers you mercilessly and leaves your property trashed. THE CIVIL WAR EXPERIENCE, SouthPeak Interactive Win 95-98, $60 (Professional edition, $100, includes additional utilities) Bottom line: Serious suite with a friendly exterior.
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I have just four words for the Symantec people on this issue: free support for life. Would that Symantec had taken the same safety-first approach with AntiVirus: It automatically scans attachments that come into your system via e-mail, a good thing, but includes only six months of free updates for the virus database (and for its Web Services driver-update feature), a very bad thing indeed. CleanSweep lets you remove files from your registry but won't let you even click on critical files needed to keep your computer running.
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Norton Utilities now features a program called Zip Rescue, which lets you back up important files to a Jaz or Zip drive instead of your hard drive. Besides that welcoming front end, the package's single most improved feature, several of the individual programs, including Norton Utilities, Web Services, AntiVirus and CleanSweep, show marked improvement.
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When you install it, for instance, you can leave out the components that you don't want, such as Norton CrashGuard-which, despite improvements, still often halts valid operations in the name of protection from system crashes. SystemWorks hadn't changed much in previous revisions, but this edition features a totally redone, much-easier-to-use interface and more control of the program's functions. Details: SystemWorks 2000 is part mechanic, part guard dog and part butler for your PC. Bottom line: Be prepared to get lost in space for a long time. Installation warning: This game has issues with slower CD-ROM hardware, such as that on many CD-RW drives. Online (and over a local area network), up to eight players and computer opponents can compete in the highly configurable multiplayer games, but as with many real-time games, play can slow markedly if the the Net is busy or lots of units show up onscreen. In single-player modes, you can stay in the mission to gather resources and repair damaged vessels after you accomplish each scenario's goals-a helpful feature, since you develop and carry the same fleet from mission to mission. The game also holds its replay value well. Each ship, from your Mothership (basically a movable city that is now your whole civilization) to the smallest scout, is remarkably well-detailed, so you can zoom your view in and out at the click of your mouse. But you won't mind having to restart some of the 16 single-player missions again, because the superb graphics and stereo sound draw you deep into this sometimes frenetic game.
For starters, the game is truly three-dimensional, allowing you to explore space in all directions-and be attacked in all three dimensions. Details: The premise of this game-a race leaves its decimated planet in search of its ancestral home-has been done before, but this is no cookie-cutter game of gather resources/develop technology/build ships/fight foes. Win 95-98, $99 ($35 rebate available) encyclopedia costs $39 separately ($25 rebate available), dictionary costs $40 separately ($25 rebate available), world atlas costs $54 separately ($20 rebate available).
see Soccer." And with "soccer mom" warranting an entry, why not "football hooligan"? Bottom line: At times bumbling, but still best in its class. "Football" discusses the sport played with the pointy-ended ball and includes the addendum "U.K. The suite's World English Dictionary, the one all-new component, is decidedly U.S.-centric despite its global ambitions. Then toggle between maps detailing rainfall and temperature. The atlas disc is uniformly out of this world: Enter the name of the little fishing lake you went to as a kid-say, Bass Lake in California-and the map zooms to the spot. A search on writer Langston Hughes, for instance, turns up a terse entry dedicated to him, as well as a "fast facts" chronology of his life, his picture, a sound clip of his poem "Harlem," his essay "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" and 24 articles in which his name appears.
But those glitches aside, the appeal of this product remains its comprehensiveness and speed: Type in a word, get back buckets of information.
And the vaunted multimedia is not always a treat: Out of context, you could mistake the rudimentary volcano illustration for a Clearasil ad. For instance, the almanac's list of nuclear explosions omits Pakistan and India's underground tests in 1998, a major gap. Details: As Microsoft's editors stocked the core encyclopedia of the Encarta Reference Suite with 22 million more words and added their own dictionary of "world" English, they occasionally shelved a sour apple in this digital library. What: Five-CD (or one-DVD) information warehouse.