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| Program's homepage for downloading | Description | Platforms |
| 3DT: 3D Topicscape | 3D Topicscape is a memory aid, a thinking tool and a "let's get organized" assistant that helps you build concept maps and mind maps in 3D. | Win 98, 2000, XP |
| ACD: ACDSee | Image viewer and browser for BMP, DIB, GIF, IFF, LBM, JPG, PCD, PCX, DCX, PIC (SoftImage), PNG, PSD, RLE, TGA, TIF and WMF. It may be usefull to associate these extensions with ACDSee because it's fast. | Win3.1/95/NT |
| AH: ACE-HIGH MP3 WAV WMA OGG Converter | Converting batches of MP3, WAV, WMA, OGG Vorbis files from one format to another on-the-fly. | W98/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| AT: AccuTrans 3D | Viewer, manipulator and convertor for many 3D object formats. | W9x/NT |
| AV: Acloon VideoViewer | The Right Click Video Viewer + Audio and Image Viewer. Acloon VideoViewer, the fastest, most powerful, and easiest-to-use video, audio and image viewer available for Windows! Acloon VideoViewer digital video and imaging software offers support for 23 popular video formats, 7 popular image formats and 12 popular audio formats. ( mpg, mpe, mp2, mpa, mov, avi, fli, flc, cel, gif, avi, dat, asf, asx, jpg, ico, mp3, wav. Min. DirectX 7.0, 32 Mb RAM, Pentium. 20 days trial shareware $29,95. | W98/ME/NT4/2K |
| CDMP3: CD to MP3 Ripper | Convert audio CD to MP3, WAV, WMA, VQF, OGG. | Windows |
| CMW: CDH Media Wizard | Allows the user to play all popular media formats in one program! Formats include: CD Audio, Video CD, RealAudio & RealVideo, Windows Video, MP3, MP2, MPEG Video, Apple Movie, Standard Windows Audio, MIDI, and many other various audio and video formats! Powerful conversion features include WAV to MP3, MP3 to WAV, CD to MP3, and CD to WAV. | W9x/NT |
| DC: DropConvert | DropConvert filters, converts and manipulates text files. DOS <=> Unix <=> Mac <=> Fixed length format conversions, remove HTML, blanks etc, case conversion, search and replace, ASCII<=>EBCDIC, skip binary files and much more. | W95 |
| FMV: FmView | Especially a fast add-on for File Manager, Explorer, Windows Commander (W95) or possible other filemanager-like program. It recognizes more than 70 file-formats like graphic-, wordprocessor-, database- (ODBC needed) and spreadsheet-formats. For the most graphical formats you need to register. | Win3.1x, 95, NT3.51, NT 4.0. |
| FV: FormView | Reads, Views, Searches, Converts and Prints Hewlett Packard Printer Control Language (PCL) print files. Prints to non-PCL printers. Converts PCL to PDF. FormView can be installed as a web browser helper application to facilitate the storing of PCL printed output on the web. Freeware. | Win3.1/95 |
| GC: GraphicConverter | Image converter and manipulator. imports PICT, Startup-Screen, MacPaint, TIFF (uncompressed, packbits, CCITT3/4 and lzw), RIFF, PICS, 8BIM, 8BPS/PSD, JPEG/JFIF, GIF, PCX/SCR, GEM-IMG/-XIMG, BMP (RLE compressed BMP's also), ICO/ICN, PIC (16 bit), FLI/FLC, TGA, MSP, PIC (PC Paint), SCX (ColoRIX), SHP, WPG, PBM/PGM/PPM, CGM (only binary), SUN , RLE, XBM, PM, IFF/LBM, PAC, Degas, TINY, NeoChrome, PIC (ATARI), SPU/SPC, GEM-Metafile, Animated NeoChrome, Imagic, ImageLab/Print Technic, HP-GL/2, FITS, SGI, DL, XWD, WMF, Scitex-CT, DCX, KONTRON, Lotus-PIC, Dr. Halo, GRP, VFF, Apple IIgs, AMBER, TRS-80, VB HB600, ppat, QDV, CLP, IPLab, SOFTIMAGE, GATAN, CVG, MSX and more. It can export to a variety of these formats. | MAC |
| GW: Goldwave | Soundplayer, recorder and editor for AFC, AU, IFF, SND, VOC and WAV. It can also convert between many formats. The drivers need to be installed using Windows Control-panel, Multimedia (W95). | Windows 3.1x/95/NT. |
| GWS: Graphic Workshop | Viewer, converter for many graphic formats. Knows: ART, AVI, BGA, BMP, CDB, CDR, CLP, CPT, CUT, DIB, EXE, FIF, FIT, FLC, FLI, GIF, HRZ, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPE, JPG, LBM, MAC, MOV, MSP, PCD, PCX, PIC, PNG, RAS, RLE, TGA, TIF, TXT, UUE, XBM, WMF and WPG. | Windows 3.1x/95/NT |
| IM: ImageMagick | Viewer, converter and manipulator for many image formats like AVS, BMP, CGM, DCX, DIB, EPS, FAX, FIG, FITS, FPX, GIF, HDF, JBIG, JPEG, ICO, MAP, MATTE, MIFF, MNG, MPEG, MTV, NULL, PBM, PCD, PCL, PCX, PDF, PGM, PICT, PLASMA, PNG, PNM, PPM, PS, PS2, P7, RAD, RGB, RLA, RLE, SGI, SUN, TGA, TIFF, TIFF24, TILE, UIL, UYVY, VID, VIFF, XC, XBM, XPM, XWD, YUV and more. | Most Unix's, Linux, Win95/NT, MAC, VMS |
| Imaging | This one should be on your Windows 98 cdrom, but I believe it's also available in newer versions of Windows 95 and NT 4.0. It's an image viewer/manipulator for tif, awd, bmp, jpg, jpe, jpeg, pcx and gif | Win9x/NT4.0 |
| IV: IrfanView | Fast image viewer/converter for AVI, BMP, DIB, EMF, GIF, ICO, IFF/LBM, JPEG, MID, PBM, Photo-CD (Overview Photo-CD support), PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, RAS/SUN, RLE, RMI, TGA, TIFF, WAV and WMF. Freeware for non-commercial users. | Win95/NT |
| JIR: Jasc Image Robot | From the makers of Paint Shop Pro, Jasc Image Robot is a batch image converter/manipulator for BMP, CLP, CUT, DIB, GIF, IFF, IMG, JIF, JPG, LBM, MSP, PBM, PCX, PCT, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAS, RLE, TGA, TIF and WMF | Win95/NT 4.0 |
| LVP: LView Pro | Viewing, editing, creating and cataloging images for BMP, DIB, GIF, JPG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PPM, TGA, and TIF | Win 95/NT. If you use Win 3.1 you can download v.1.D2 which you can use together with the Win32s extensions |
| Media Player | Standard in Windows 3.1 and 9x. Player for multimedia. Can be used for Windows Media, Real Audio 4.0, Real Video 4.0, QuickTime, AVI, WAV, MP3, MID, MPG | Win3.x Win9x/NT4.0 DEC Alpha |
| MV: MultiVu | Viewer for simple textfiles as well as some wordprocessor files. It recognizes DOC, WRI and WP*. | Win95 |
| PKZ: PKZIP for Windows | Famous archiver. For Zip's but also support for TAR, GZIP, MIME, BinHex, UUencoded and XXencoded file formats. There may be some differences between the various OS versions, check out their homepage. | Win3.1x/9x, DOS, OS/2, Unix |
| PP: Peeper | Viewer for various formats and recognizes e.g. 386, BMP, CPL, DLL, DOC, DRV, EXE, FON, INI, OCX, TIF, TXT, VBX, WAV, WRI and ZIP | Win3.1x/95. Not for NT |
| PSP: Paint Shop Pro | Graphic converter, drawing program and has a very handy browser at the same time. It knows the following formats: BMP, CDR, CGM, CLP, CUT, DIB, DRW, DXF, EPS, GEM, GIF, HGL, IFF, IMG, JIF, JPG, LBM, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCD, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAS, RAW, RLE, TGA, TIF, WMF and WPG. | Win3.1x/95/NT 3.51/NT 4.0 |
| PT: PolyTrans | Viewer, manipulator and convertor for many 3D image formats. | W9x/NT4(SP3+), SGI |
| PV: PolyView | Viewing and image manipulation for BMP, CALS, CUT, DCX, EPS, FAX, GEM, GIF, IBM IOCA, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPG, LaserData LaserView, MAC, MSP, PCD, PCX, PICT, PNG, PSD, RAS, SUN, TGA, TIF, WMF, WPG, Xbitmap, XPM and X Windows Dump. If you register you can also convert to many of these formats. | W95 and NT (x86) |
| QT: QuickTime | MoviePlayer and PictureViewer from Apple, used for many movie, sound and image formats. | W9x/NT Mac |
| QV: QuickView | You can find this one on your Windows 95/98 cdrom or disks, but here's also an url. It's a previewer that should handle Executables (exe, dll etc.), WP documents (wpd, wp5 etc.), Various text files (txt, asc etc.), Word (doc), wps, wri, Ms Excel 4.0 spreadsheets (xls), bmp, dib, rle, cur, db, dbf. | W95 |
| QVP: Quick View Plus | General viewer for more than 200 formats. It integrates itself in other programs like Explorer, or as helper or plug-in for a web-browser. Works for 30 days, then you must register. | Win3.1/95/NT 4.0. |
| RP: RealPlayer | Sound and Movieplayer for .rm, .ra, .ram and .swf | W9x |
| SB: SnowBound | Image manipulator for 301, BMP, CAL, DCX, EPS, GIF, ICA, ICO, IFF, JPG, MCA, PCD, PCL, PCT, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, RLE, TGA, TIF (many versions), WMF, XBM, XPM, XWD. Demo works for a month. | Win3.1/95/NT |
| SE: StuffIt Expander | Expands files from the most popular archiving and compression formats found online, including StuffIt (.sit), ZIP (.zip), uuencoded (.uue), BinHex (.hqx), and MacBinary (.bin) formats. Other archive formats supported include ARC (.arc), Arj (.arj), and gzip (.gz). StuffIt Expander will also expand self-extracting archives created by StuffIt, ZIP, and Arj. Freeware. | W95 |
| SE: StuffIt Expander | Expand StuffIt, Compact Pro, BinHex & MacBinary files. Version 4.5 also now adds the ability to mount ShrinkWrap image files (electronic versions of disks) and to decrypt Private File encrypted files. Also handles .zip, .tar, BinHex and UUencoded files. Freeware. | Mac |
| TP: ThumbsPlus | Graphic file viewer, locator, organizer and convertor. It knows AVI, BMF, BMP, CDR, CEL, CGM, EPS, GEM, GIF, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPG, LBM, MND, MOV, PCD, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, RAW, TGA, TTF, TIF, UUE, WMF and WPG. | Win3.1x/95/NT, there also is a Beta available for the Macintosh. |
| TVP: The Viewer Pro! | Graphic Manipulator for many formats. Also knows some movie and sound formats. Freeware. | Windows (16 bit) |
| WA: Winamp | This program must be the most popular MP3 player, with 1000's of skins. Not only for MP3, but it knows many other sound formats. Freeware. | Win9x/NT/2K Also an alpha MAC version available for System 8.5 or later |
| WB: WinBrowse | Database Browser for DB, DBF, and MDB. If you register you can also edit and convert between these formats. | Windows 3.1x |
| WC: Windows Commander | If you like the Norton Commander then this program is for you, because it works the same! It doesn't really belong in this list, but it can handle ARJ, LZH, RAR, UC2 and ZIP archives in a Norton Commander style. Except for ZIP you need external programs which you can find some in the Archivers page. | Win3.1/95/NT |
| WZ: WinZip | Manipulator for archives and recognizes e.g. ARC, ARJ, LZH, TAR, ZIP, Ms Compress archives (??_, ??$), and some self-extracting archives. It has simple build-in zip/unzip possibilities. For other archives WinZip needs external programs. Look in the Archivers page. | Win3.1x/95/NT |
| XNV: XNView | Program for viewing and converting your graphics files. It supports 58 file formats (PNG, Jpeg, Targa, Alias, Softimage, Tdi, Gif, Unix bitmap, windows, Iff, Rgb, Sun raster, Fits, Photo CD, Photoshop and more). It offers the possiblity to apply filters (blur, average, emboss...) and effects (lens, waves, ...). Pictures browser, Slide Show and RAW/YUV import. Good, small & freeware! | Win3.1x (+Win32s) Win9x/NT Also Linux/XWindows & DOS (Nview) versions available |
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