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TRACKER is a general-purpose income/expense tracking program written for
the visually-impaired.  The program is designed for use with a speech
synthesizer, to vocalize information usually read from the screen.  The
documentation has internal help screens for each of the program's
commands.

CATCHER is an interesting twist on an old theme.  The object is to catch
falling characters with a paddle at the bottom of the screen.  The twist
is the program was written for visually-impaired people and is designed
for use with a speech synthesizer.

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Disk No  732  TRACKER / CATCHAR                                      v1
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TRACKER is a general purpose income/expense tracking program written for
the blind. The program is designed to be used with a speech synthesizer to
speak information usually read from the screen. The documentation consists
of internal help screens for each of the programs commands.

CATCHAR is an interesting twist on an old theme. The object is to catch
falling characters with a paddle at the bottom of the screen. The twist is
that the program was written (like TRACKER) with blind people in mind. The
game can be used with a speech synthesizer and played without the need for
a sceen display (even though it does have one). Instructions are included
within the program.

WAIT causes the computer to do just that, wait. for use in batch files, to
use type 'WAIT n' where n is the number of minutes to wait.

TRACKER  EXE   Income/expence tracking program for the blind
$HELP$   TRA   Help screens used by tracker.exe
SAMPLE   TRA   Sample file for tracker.exe
CATCHAR  EXE   Action game for the blind
WAIT     EXE   Cause computer to wait
DATIME   EXE   Set date and time
TRAIN    EXE   Draws a train on the screen
READ     ME    Message from the author

PC-SIG
1030D E Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1987 PC-SIG

Program name: TRACKER, CATCHAR

Author name:  SCOTT WHITEHEAD
Address:       SPEACOM INNOVATIONS
              10413 Firethorn Lane
              Austin, Texas, 78750
Telephone:    none

Suggested Donation: $20 for TRACKER, no amount specified for CATCHAR

Program Description:
     TRACKER is a general purpose income/expense tracking program written for
the blind.  The program is designed to be used with a speech synthesizer to
speak the information usually read from the screen (the program can be used
without its speech features though).  The program has a full screen display so
can be used by the sighted as well as the blind.
     The documentation is internal (there is no printed documentation at all)
and can read from the screen or spoken through the speech synthesizer.  The
help screens are viewed one command at a time.
     CATCHAR is interesting twist no an old theme.  The object of the game is
to catch falling characters with a paddle at the bottom of the screen.  The
twist  is that the program was designed (like TRACKER) with blind people in
mind.
     All of the documentation is internal and can be spoken through a speech
synthesizer as well as read from the screen.  Actions within the game are
displayed on the screen while a series of sound effects indicate what is
happenning for those who cannot see (or aren't looking at) the screen display.
For those who don't wish to close their eyes to play, the screen can be turned
off completely. Both programs will run on color or monochrome systems with one
disk drive and at least 128K memory.

 Volume in drive A has no label
 Directory of A:\

TRACKER  EXE     92014   9-30-86  12:58p
$HELP$   TRA     43200   9-29-86  11:39a
SAMPLE   TRA      8103  10-01-86   6:16a
CATCHAR  EXE     85720   9-29-86   8:56a
WAIT     EXE     41384   9-17-86   2:26p
DATIME   EXE     43822   9-17-86   2:20p
TRAIN    EXE     32466   9-17-86   1:49p
READ     ME       2705  10-16-86   4:50p
CATCHAR  SCR       100   1-04-80  12:15a
NOTES732 TXT      1605   4-09-87  10:04a
FILES732 TXT      1512   4-09-87  10:06a
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