The 1995 update includes over 100 pages of detailed information about all kinds of software with educational applications in the Classics. There are descriptive reviews of over 60 instructional software programs for Latin, Greek, etymology, and classical civilization, along with brief listings for research and productivity software tools, such as text-search programs and wordprocessor fonts.
New entries cover the expanding world of CD-ROM software and Internet resources.
If you are on any of the major software companies' mailing lists, you will undoubtedly have noticed the veritable tidal wave of CD-ROM offerings to hit their pages. There are whole catalogs now devoted only to CD-ROM listings. A program called Athena, published in 1994 by Macmillan, is a good example of a CD-ROM program that just doesn't take full advantage of its medium. Athena is largely text-based. It is merely a large, traditional, encyclopedic database for the searching.