PharmAssist (1994) 1 Reference Windows

Softkey PharmAssist is a simple and easy to use CD-ROM reference of medications and health information.

• 2.x

Phasar (1983) 0 Financial DOS

Phasar is an easy to use, low cost "budget" home accounting system, and register for DOS.

• 1.x

Phase3 (1994) 1 Windows

Phase3 is a collection of design tools you can use to build a complete database application to run under Windows 3.x. From your design, Phase3 will generate code in C or Pascal to create a complete, stand-alone source program in your target language. Phase3 will then execute your nominated compiler to compile the final stand-alone Windows-executable EXE file. time and to re-generate the source code as required. You can also write your own Pascal of C code at any point in the application. You can do this directly within Phase3 without having to modify the generated source code. (RDBMS) for storing and manipulating your application's data.

• 2.x

PhotoFinish (1992) 0 Graphics Windows

PhotoFinish is an image editor that features a number of effects geared towards photo touch-ups or enhancements. It also supports acquiring images from a scanner. It was produced and sold by ZSoft, who earlier created PC Paintbrush. PhotoFinish somewhat resembles PC Paintbrush, but has many more features. After SoftKey bought out ZSoft, they rebranded this product as "PC PaintBrush 1.0" and sold it a a budget title.

• 1.0
• 2.0
• 3.0

Photoshop (1988) 35 Graphics MacOS Windows

Photoshop is a powerful drawing and photo manipulation program for both Mac and Windows. The Macintosh version was released by Adobe in 1990, although a very small number were bundled with Barneyscan slide scanners prior to that. Photoshop contained many advanced features including layered images, advanced color control, and plug-ins. Prior to its release, many of its features were only found in high end dedicated photo pre-processing systems.

• 0.x (beta)
• 1.x
• 2.x
• 3.x

PhotoSuite 3 Graphics Windows

Easily touch-up, transform, organize and share photos with family and friends

• 8.06

Pick Operating System (1987) 1 Other

The Pick Operating System is a multi-user database oriented operating system for the IBM PC. It includes its own multi-user database, and native applications are written in Pick BASIC. It is similar to, and competed against Thoroughbred OS. Later versions of the Pick System database and programming language were hosted under Unix or Windows instead of using its own OS.

• 1987

Pinball Construction Set (1983) 1 DOS

Originally for the Apple II, Pinball Construction Set is a pinball game that lets you create your own custom pinball table game layouts. It was one of the earliest programs to popularize the use of drag-and-drop. There were versions for the Apple II, C64, Atari Home Computer system, IBM PC, and Macintosh.

• 1

Pizazz Plus (1993) 0 Graphics DOS

Pizazz Plus is a commercial screen shot utility for MS-DOS, with support for Windows. It features built in image enhancement, card-specific support for a large number of video cards, built-in printing with support for a huge number of printers, and converter export tools for many file formats.

• 4.0

PKZip (1990) 12 Utility DOS

Pkzip is the most common archiver for MS-DOS based systems. It implements a an open compression method and is much faster than other archivers of its time.

• 1.x
• 2.0x

Plan 9 2 Other

Plan 9 from Bell Labs was a research operating system to improve on the ideas of UNIX. It was a radical revolution - everything was a file, even network sockets, and the system, while CLI based, was improved to take advantage of graphical machines.

• 1.x

Planetfall (1983) 0 Other

Planetfall, by Infocom, is a text-based interactive game where you explore an alien planet after your ship, where you are assigned to scrub floors, mysteriously explodes.

• 1983

PlanPerfect (1987) 0 Spreadsheet DOS

PlanPerfect, originally called MathPlan, is a spreadsheet and graphing companion to WordPerfect. It supports the same printers as WordPerfect and is optimized for lower-end machines. PlanPerfect was mainly targeted at existing WordPerfect users. also enjoy PlanPerfect.

• 3.0
• 5.x

Plus Hardcard (1987) 0 DOS

These are the software tools and drivers needed to install and operate a Plus 20 Hardcard internal hard drive.

• 1987

Pmcomm (1994) 0 Communications OS2

Pmcomm is an easy to use personal telecommunications program for IBM OS/2. Supports powerful features such as scripting.

• 2.x

Policies Now! (1993) 0 Utility Publishing DOS

Policies Now is a document creation wizard that specializes in corporate policies. It provides general purpose templates with carefully constructed language that are customized via a series of questions. The results may be manually customized further with a built in text editor. accompanied by "DescriptionsWrite Now!" (A job description writing tool), and "Personal Policy Expert". These were renamed to "Policies Now!", "Description Now!", and "Policies Now! HR Pro Edition" respectively.

• 1.30

PolyWindows DeskPlus (1985) 0 Utility DOS

PolyWindows DeskPlus is a collection of memory resident accessories for DOS. It was first released in 1984 by POLYTRON Corporation. It includes an editor, index cards, a calendar/appointment book, an alarm clock, several calculators, a phone dialer, DOS functions, keyboard macros, and can cut-and-paste between applications. HQ, Mastro, PC Desk, Pop-Up Desk Set, and WordPerfect Library.

• 1.2

POP Menu (1989) 0 Utility DOS

A program to organize your computer programs and avoid the DOS prompt. With MENU! you create a personal display of program names. Then run any program with the touch of a single key.

• 2.x

Popcorn Desktop (1986) 0 Utility PIM DOS

Popcorn desktop is a set of TSR utilities similar to Borland Sidekick. It includes a text editor, a calculator, and a calendar. It can copy information from currently running programs displayed on the screen.

• 1.x

Popcorn Misspeller's Dictionary (1988) 0 Word Processor Utility DOS

Popcorn Misspeller's Dictionary, from Popcorn Software, is a TSR program with a popup list of commonly misspelled words. You may find a word by typing it, but it does not make corrective suggestions.

• 1.x

Powerbase (1989) 0 Utility DOS

Powerbase is a set of utilities distributed by PC World

• Vol II

PowerBASIC (1991) 17 DOS

PowerBASIC is a continuation of Borland TurboBasic maintained by its original author, Robert S. Zale. It was originally notable as a BASIC compiler, when most BASIC environments were interpreted.

• 2.x

PowerBuilder (1994) 58 Windows

PowerBuilder, by Powersoft and later Sybase, is a development environment for building business application that uses the object-oriented "Powerscript" programming language. Primarily targeted at enterprises, it featured the ability to quickly and visually create powerful database programs under Microsoft Windows without having to worry about the complexities of C/C++ and the Windows SDK. It supports operation with many high end databases such as Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database Servers.

• 3.x
• 4.x

PowerC (1993) 0 DOS

Power C, from Mix Software, was a low cost DOS-based C compiler targeted at the educational market. Earlier versions were known as Mix C

• 1.x
• 2.x

Powerchute (1990) 0 Unix

Powerchute is a utility for use with American Power Conversion Corporation (APC) battery backup power supplies.

• 1.x