Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!sgiblab!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!sprite.berkeley.edu!rab From: rab@sprite.berkeley.edu (Robert A. Bruce) Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom Subject: New -- Nova CDROM, 2nd Edition, for NeXT Date: 14 Mar 1994 17:01:59 GMT Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 115 Message-ID: <2m25a7$ddh@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <2ltfch$sag@ulysses.iol.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: jaywalk.berkeley.edu Walnut Creek CDROM is proud to announce the immediate availability of the Nova CDROM Second Edition, for NeXT Workstations. The Nova CDROM contains software for the Black (Motorola) NeXT. We also have the Nebula CDROM for NeXTSTEP Intel. This new totally revised edition of the Nova will give you more applications, more source code, more fun and information. On this disc you will find utilities, games, fonts, sounds, music, PostScript and tiff graphics. Included on the Nova is the largest collection of public domain and shareware applications of it's kind. There is more applications then ever before and you will see why the Nova is one of the most popular CDROM for the NeXT platform. Each directory on the disc contains an index listing filename, version, author and a short description of each file. A central index is also included which you use with Digital Librarian to quickly locate any file. The Nova for NeXT hardware is in ISO-9660 format with Rock Ridge extensions. A must for every NeXT owner. Remember this is a lot more then an update it's a totally new revised edition. Specs Date published: February 1994 Target platform: NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher for NeXT (Motorola) hardware Megabytes on disc: 604 MB Format: ISO 9660 with Rock Ridge Extensions (unix) Compression used on disc: none Editor: Eric Tremblay, eric@cdrom.com Features - The second edition of the popular Nova CDROM for NeXT hardware. - All applications are ready to run directly from the CDROM - Applications in categories such as utilities, astronomy, graphics, communication, audioapps, graphic, mail, clocks - Games/entertainment applications totalling 31.9 MB - 119 NEXTSTEP ready fonts - Fonts directory can be directly linked with hard disk to make all fonts on the CDROM available to the user without taking up any disk space. - 42 modules for the BackSpace screen saver - 22 NEXTSTEP Palettes for Interface Builder - More then 52 MB of source code - 74 sound files - Contains Pcomm, the unix shell terminal communications program compiled to run on NEXTSTEP and other terminal programs. - Each directory contains an index to make it easier for a user to locate a file. - Indexes are fully indexed in Digital Librarian (for 3.2). - Source code included with many of applications. - All applications were compiled using NEXTSTEP 3.1 or higher - All applications were compiled in NeXT (Motorola) only binaries to save disc space. - All binaries have been "stripped" to save disc space. The price is $59.95. S&H is $5 for US/Canada/Mexico, and $10 for overseas. If you live in California, please add sales tax. You can pay by cash, check, money order or Visa/MC/Dis/Amex. Walnut Creek CDROM 1547 Palos Verdes Mall, Suite 260 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 1 800 786-9907 1 510 674-0783 1 510 674-0821 FAX orders@cdrom.com The NEXTSTEP community has made what the Nova is today. The quality of the applications found on this disc is a good reflection of the talent and expertise that the NEXTSTEP community represents. Walnut Creek CDROM would like to thank the NEXTSTEP community for making the Nova a success. The disc is available for FREE to anyone whose work appears on the CDROM. Just email me your name, address, and the name of the program(s) that you wrote. Overseas addresses are ok Many of the programs on this disc are shareware, and require seperate payment to the author for continued use. This CDROM is fully guaranteed, if you are dissatisfied with this disc for any reason whatsoever, you can return it for an exchange or refund. Here is a list of other CDROM titles from Walnut Creek CDROM: CICA Microsoft Windows CD-ROM - Windows PD/shareware from ftp.cica $29 Simtel MSDOS CDROM - MSDOS Shareware/PD from Simtel internet archive $29 Hobbes OS/2 CDROM - PD/Shareware from ftp-os2.cdrom.com $29 Giga-Games CDROM - Thousands of Games for MSDOS and MS Windows $39 GIFs Galore - Thousands of GIF images $39 Aminet Amiga CDROM - shareware & PD swr collection for Amiga $29 Garbo MSDOS/MAC CDROM - shareware & PD for DOS and Mac $29 Space and Astronomy CDROM - Nasa photos, doscs $39 Project Gutenberg CDROM - Hundreds of etexts, literature, documents $39 QRZ! Ham Radio CDROM - Callsign database, shareware & PD, docs, etc. $29 Sprite CDROM - Sprite Research Operating System from UC Berkeley $29 Nova for NeXT CDROM - Software for NeXT (Motorola) Workstations $59 Nebula for NeXTSTEP (Intel) CDROM - Software for NeXTSTEP (Intel) $59 Source Code CD-ROM - Usenet source archives on CD-ROM $39 X11R5 and GNU CD-ROM - X11R5 Window System, Gnu Src, SPARC binaries $39 Ada CDROM -- Thousands of Ada documents and programs $39 Info-Mac CDROM -- 10000+ Mac programs from sumex-aim.stanford.edu $49 C User's Group Library CDROM - C source code $49 Libris Britannia - British shareware $59 Tookit for Linux CDROM - Linux Applications, Slackware distribution $39 FreeBSD Operating System CDROM - Complete 32 bit OS, X11R5, GNU $39 GEMini Atari CDROM - PD/Freeware for Atari $39 Internet Info CDROM -- All the FAQs, RFC/IEN, Networking, Security $39 Fractal Frenzy CDROM -- Thousands of high resolution fractal images $39 Linux Operating System CDROM -- Complete Linux, X11R5/Gnu, full src. $49 Toolkit for Linux CDROM -- Utilities and docs for Linux, Slackware $39 Clipart Cornicopia CDROM -- 5050 B&W clipart images, PCX/WPG $39 Tax Info '93 CDROM -- Thousands of U.S. Federal Tax forms and pubs $39 La Coleccion CDROM - Spanish PD/Freeware $39 CD-ROM Caddies $4.95 If you would like a more detailed list of other CDROM titles published by Walnut Creek CDROM, you can ftp the latest list from ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/cdrom/catalog, or send email to info@cdrom.com.