Navigating the sea of sports trivia; several electronic approaches to facts and figures about your favorite event

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La Crescenta, CA-based Knowledge Adventure's $79.95 Sports Adventure data base and computer game provides CD-ROM-like performance in a software package. Trivia and serious information about baseball, football, hockey, basketball, tennis, golf, boxing and the Olympics is accessed either through a keystroke or a mouse click on an MD-DOS microcomputer with an EGA or better monitor. The software takes up 6Mbytes of hard disk space and requires 340 Kbytes of available memory for operation. There is also a reference library reached by clicking on a question mark that provides an alphabetical card catalog. A quiz game, for one or two players, runs at various level of difficulty. The sound achieves better effect by using an accessory sound device rather than the built-in PC speaker. Santa Monica, CA-based Voyager debuts Baseball's Greatest Hits, a $79.95 CD-ROM disk with all sorts of text, graphics, sound and video-based information.

Software, Voyager Co., Computer games, Sports, Baseball, Databases, CD-ROM, CD-ROM disks, Database, Computer Game, Baseball's Greatest Hits (Entertainment/hobby software), Knowledge Adventure, Sports Adventure (Computer game)

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For a mental workout

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Mindlink's Mindlink Problem Solver is a decision-support system that helps users organize and attack a problem with a systematic process. The $299 software is designed as a business tool, but can be applied to help make decisions in personal life. Users may need a computer to help generate ideas or make connections that are not always obvious. The software sprinkles quotations, pictures and poems throughout the decision-making process. The software is divided into four parts: the Gym, Idea Generation, Guided Problem Solving and Problem Solving. The software is an outbranch of research conducted by Synectics management consulting firm. The software runs on Apple Macintosh or Microsoft Windows platforms.

Decision support systems, Decision Support Software, MindLink Inc., MindLink Problem Solver (Decision support software)

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