Practical Computer Services 483 Klockner Road Hamilton, NJ 08619 (609) 584-7947 Voice (609) 587-0583 Fax (609) 587-2672 The TAO BBS E-Mail: bob.watson@tao.com Web Site: http://www.nerc.com/~pcs/ Product Descriptions -------------------- xxx = Current version number þ Universal Registration þ This registration option allows you to register all of our Universal PPE's for one low price. A GREAT value for only $40.00! þ LoopBack þ Universal PPE LoopBack is a VERY powerful call-back verifier for use with PCBoard v15.2x. This is a great way to keep multiple accounts off of your system and to do away with voice verification. If you can't seem to find a door to support your intelligent multiport serial card, fossil driver, or OS/2 interface, then turn to LoopBack. LoopBack supports all multi-port cards that PCBoard supports. If PCBoard supports it, so does LoopBack. LoopBack also comes with another PPE called LoopUtil. With LoopUtil, there is no hassle with shelling to DOS and editing text files etc. With LoopUtil, you control EVERY setting, every toggle, every database file, everything from PCBoard. LoopBack supports dialing templates, wildcards, bad # file, trash file, trash file index (for QUICK access), timetables defineable by dialing template, automated messages (Internal and External), file flagging, caller-id searching, call-back only mode, and MUCH much more. The BEST call-back verifier! Filename: LOPBKxxx.ZIP Registration: $25.00 þ Voter++ þ Universal PPE The premier voting booth door available for PCB 15.2x! Unlimited booth count, quick and simple setup (under five minutes!), SysOp configurable whether users can add questions and answers, full booth creation/deleteion/editing built in. Bonus utility included, NEWBOOTH, will show your users those booths they have not voted on yet! COlorful *graphic* displays, full color graphs built of all booths for your bulletin section! Automatic maintenance, SysOp can run hands off after install! Full Prompt definition file, so you can change the prompts to suit your needs (Language, color...etc). Filename: VOTERxxx.ZIP Registration: $20.00 þ Ho' House þ Universal PPE The pinnacle of human degradation, you run a brothel, and work your ladies to make you enough money to build up your standing amongst the other pimps. Unfortantely while you are doing this, other pimps are working to build themselves up, player fights, stealing of others whores, stealing others money and generally being an SOB will get you far in this game. Players vie to be the Pimp's Pimp, and there really is only one way to get there! A great game that players call day after day to play. Filename: HOHOxxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ Virtual Reality Soldiers þ Universal PPE VRS is the ultimate in PCBoard on-line games! Player vs. Player battles, sneak attacks, a full planet of nasty mutants (all with diffrent personalities, and abilities) and a town filled with locals, all trying to seperate you from your hard earned credits. Action, Role Play and text adventure blend to make a world that will suck in your users and force them to play every day! Filename: VRSxxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ Suggestion Box þ Universal PPE No longer are users out in the cold when it comes to your BBS - the more the users are involved, the more subscritpions you will see! Users can enter in "suggestions" and the rest of your user base can vote on those "suggestions". Suggestions are dynamically sorted to show the "suggestions" with the highest votes. SysOps can add notes to each suggestion allowing you to explain what you can do. A great - useful program that will get use every day on your system. Filename: SUGSTxxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ Profiler þ Universal PPE Match Maker allows for the matching of callers with like interests based upon answers given to questions developed by the SysOp. Full matching allows the user to generate a full profile on the users in the database, matching on sex, sexual preference, age, marital status and the full profile. Lightning fast searches, and user friendly displays make this useful program fun and easy for your users to take full advantage of. Give it a try today. Filename: UPROFxxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ Auctioneer þ Universal PPE Run a silent auction on your system, users can Bid on products that other users enter, or enter their own! Start bids, bid increments, length of time to run item, and a full description are all user controllable. Notification of sale is sent to both bidder and seller, and Sellers who do not get any bids are notified at the end of their bid time. Fun and exciting, people root through their closets to find stuff to sell, why not help them out? Filename: AUCTxxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ PCBDE þ Universal PPE PCBDE is the most versatile Door Manager available for PCB. PCBDE will keep track of exactly which doors are being used, allowing, you the SysOp to know which door is worthy of your hard earned registration dollar. Keeps track of last date the door was opened. Fast and easy setup, setup once and forget about it. Allows you to have one menu for *both* PPE's and regular DOOR programs, making most PPE's fully seamless. A must have for every PCB SysOp. Filename: PCBDExxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ PCBBE þ Universal PPE PCBBE is the most versatile Bulletin Manager available for PCB. PCBBE will keep track of exactly when each bulletins was updated and notifies the user which bulletins are new since their last logon. Fast and easy to setup, setup once and forget about it. A must for every PCB SysOp. Filename: PCBBExxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ Depository þ <<1995 PCBoard Favorite Add-On Contest winner as "Best Shareware PPE">> A quick and easy banking program that allows your users to save their extra time or bytes for a rainy day. It also allows them to exchange bytes for time and time for bytes. Quick and easy installation. Once installed, the SysOp can forget about it! Configuration is a snap. The SysOp has many configuration options available, such as bank limits, withdraw limits, exchange rates and security level access. It couldn't be easier! Filename: DEPOSxxx.ZIP Registration: $15.00 þ Weather Forecaster þ A nice way to present your weather data files to your users. This PPE allows you to display weather data gathered from the internet or where ever you decide to get it in a user friendly format. It displays severe weather warnings, extended forecast, state climate data and local forecast by county. The county display uses your states ZONE report. It also allows you to download WEATHER.ZIP. This could be anything you want, such as the satellite images from Planet Connect. Quick and easy to setupand manage. A must for anyone interested in weather. Filename: WEATHxxx.ZIP Registration: $10.00 þ CallMe þ The callback only door. Unlike it's close cousin, the callback verifier, this program is used to allow you to call back your users on your dime and stay connected! Many SysOps use this great little program for high security systems, it is also quite useful for those Ma-Bell situations where it may cost you nothing to call a user, but it might be a long distance call for them. A quick call to your BBS to initiate the CallMe door and your users are online - happy as can be! Simple setup, no maintenance. Filename: CALLMxxx.ZIP Registration: $10.00 þ MailList þ A no-fuss, no-muss program for you to get full comma-delimited mailing lists for use in databases, word proccessing mail-merges or for whatever you need it for. It will pull all pertinent info from the users record (including TPA's, PSA's and comment fields), and this will all be saved out to a file. Small, fast and oh so simple to use. Freeware! Filename: MAILLxxx.ZIP Registration: FREEWARE þ PCSNoise þ Are you constantly having to do maintenance on your BBS, and don't have the time to explain to your users why their are being logged off before you actually drop carrier on them? If so, PCSNoise will display 4 random lines of what will appear to be line noise on the users side. After that, it will drop carrier on the user. Filename: NOISExxx.ZIP Registration: FREEWARE