BUDGETING BONANZA

Tired of shuffling through a shoe box crammed with receipts, squinting at the marks left by faded ribbons, trying to remember the amount of the check you forgot to record? Organize your finances with this month's feature program, PHA$AR, the Professional Home Accounting System and Register, written by Tom Marks of Marksman Technology. The program has been split into two arcfiles, titled PHA$AR version 3.0 and PHA$AR Datafiles.

And speaking of money, Uncle Sam wants his share. Yes, it's tax time again, and we're presenting Tom Chandler's 1989 Tax Templates to use with LDW Power. In addition to the 1040 long form and its accompanying schedules, we've included spreadsheets for calculating income from selling your home and moving expenses.

With the spare change left over after your annual IRS payment, you can have some fun, Las Vegas style, playing Mark Siegel's Super Jackpot Slots. You have nothing left over, you say? Don't worry. You don't have to risk a cent (and, unfortunately, you can't spend your winnings).

NOTE: Due to the number of complaints we've received about the Heidi format, this is the last month we're using it. We haven't decided yet what will replace it, although we promise it will be more stable and straightforward than Heidi.

ST WRITER UPDATE

Dr. Bruce Noonan does it again! This month's bonus is an update to the popular word processor, ST Writer. For ST Writer Elite version 3.6 Noonan embedded the resource file in the program and sped up the search-and-replace routines. He made the same improvements for ST Writer Elite: German and ST Writer Elite: Spanish. We've included the ST Writer Elite Manual for those who want to brush up on all the features of this perennial favorite.

As another tax-time bonus, we're presenting Tom Marks' PHA$AR Tax Calculator, which works with PHA$AR version 3.0 on Side 1 of your START Disk. This program uses the data in your PHA$AR files to provide painless tax statements. File now and get your refund early!

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