From: olson@mydual.uucp (Kirtland H. Olson)
Newsgroups: alt.hypertext
Subject: Partial List of DOS Hypertexts
Keywords: PC DOS
Date: 9 Jun 92 02:45:13 GMT
Reply-To: olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com
Organization: The Harvard Group, 01451-0667

Recently there have been several requests for the names of hypertext
engines that run on PC's.  Here's a list that may help people to track
down something to use.  

The range of capabilities of these programs is very large.  Some require
large disks and hi-powered machines, some run on the PCjr.  Some provide
tools for authoring, some allow authoring with any ASCII text editor.  I
accept any engine that lets me present data in a sequence that the
reader chooses as hypertext.  

These engines use differing concepts for the hypertext database, ranging
from an ASCII file per frame to a compiled file for all frames.  They
also vary in their treatment of links, use of aliases, methods of
marking link origins, flexibility of reference to destination, and sense
of forward and backward in the collection of frames.

Creating good hypertexts requires organizing ideas and meaning into a
useful, probably intuitively understandable, network so the reader
quickly learns to move around effectively.  Engines don't do that.  Nor
do they translate books into hypertext, nor organize your collection of
research data.  What's more, engines don't automatically make your
graphics files in the little-known HIEROGL.YPH format run on all the
graphics cards your users found on the floor.  Keep an eye peeled for
the killer engine, but in the meantime work in monochrome with the
simplest graphics you can make do with.  

The items in this list include hypertext engines, programs with
hypertext capabilities, and some related tools and demonstration
hypertexts.  This is extracted from my current database and may be
flawed since the sources are not consistent.  

If you can add to, correct, or otherwise improve this data, please send
email to olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com and I'll try to update the list.
I'm always interested in people's experience of any of these programs.

In the following list C means Commercial and S means Shareware
distributioon method.

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PRODUCT            Distribution---->D OPSYS CO
----------------------------------- - ----- -------------------------------
XHELP MS-DOS                          MSDOS
1st Class Hypertext                 C MSDOS AI Corp.
AskSam                              C MSDOS Ask Sam Systems
HyperSift                           C MSDOS Ask Sam Systems
Hyper Helper                        C MSDOS Azarona Software
Hype                                S MSDOS Bill and Bev Thompson c/o AI Expert
Architext                           C MSDOS Brainpower, Inc.
HyperPAD                            S MSDOS Brightbill-Roberts & Co., Ltd.
HyperBase                           C MSDOS Cogent Software, Ltd.
Hyperties (formerly TIES)           C MSDOS Cognetics, Corporation
farVIEW (Commercial, Network)       C MSDOS farSight Technologies, Inc.
farVIEW/S (Shareware)               S MSDOS farSight Technologies, Inc.
farVIEW (Commercial, Personal #net) C MSDOS farSight Technologies, Inc.
Help! Development Kit               C MSDOS Flambeaux Software
xText                               C MSDOS Flambeaux Software
Views                               C MSDOS Folio
vh                                  S MSDOS GNU
Hype                                S MSDOS GoldPax Software
AVC Audio Visual Connection         C MSDOS IBM
PC Storyboard Plus                  C MSDOS IBM
InfoNavigator                       S MSDOS Information Navigation, Inc.
Train-of-Thought                    C MSDOS Information Navigation, Inc.
KnowledgePro                        C MSDOS Knowledge Garden, Inc.
Agenda                              C MSDOS Lotus development Corp
Color-Tx                            C MSDOS MaxThink
DynaDoc                             C MSDOS MaxThink
HOUDINI                             C MSDOS MaxThink
Hyper-demos                         S MSDOS MaxThink
HyperRez                            S MSDOS MaxThink
Hyplus General Purpose              S MSDOS MaxThink
MaxThink                            C MSDOS MaxThink
PC-Hypertext                        S MSDOS MaxThink
Perm                                C MSDOS MaxThink
TransText                           C MSDOS MaxThink
CD-Index                            C MSDOS MaxThink
MaxThink LAN                        C MSDOS MaxThink
HyperBBS                            C MSDOS MaxThink
Hynet-LAN                           C MSDOS MaxThink
HyperLAN (Novell 4-user)            C MSDOS MaxThink
HyperTerm Terminal plus Hypertext   S MSDOS MaxThink
Demo Hypertext (5 Megs of Hypertext S MSDOS MaxThink
Hyplus (Dev Sys plus Utilities)     C MSDOS MaxThink
Hyplus (only glossary/thesaurus)    C MSDOS MaxThink
Info Select                         C MSDOS Micro Logic Corp
NaviText                            C MSDOS Northern Lights Software Corp.
Black Magic                         S MSDOS NTERGAID
HyperWriter                         C MSDOS NTERGAID
Guide Reader PC                     C MSDOS Owl International, Inc.
Guide for MS-DOS                    C MSDOS Owl International, Inc.
VP/Expert                           C MSDOS Paperback Software International
HyperComix Lance Stone              C MSDOS PC Comix, Inc.
The Norton Hypertext Engine         C MSDOS Peter Norton Computing
PC-Browse                           S MSDOS Quicksoft, Inc.
Hyperink                            S MSDOS Shaman Exchange, Inc.
Expert Help Developer's Kit         C MSDOS SofSolutions
Hypershell                          C MSDOS Text Technology
Topic                               C MSDOS Verity, Inc.
Windowbook                          C MSDOS Window Book Inc.
Hyperword                             MSDOS Zaron Software


-- 
Kirtland H. Olson                     olson%mydual.uucp@alliant.com


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Cheers,
+Rick

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