Star general manual win95

One has to wonder what the hype-factor would have been if they had just called it Windows 4. Either offering will, however, serve the purpose equally well, although I think Rathbone has a slight edge as a writer.

But he does bring a more complete, somewhat more advanced approach to this book. This is a well-written, well-researched, well-divided book which also features one of the best one-on-one comparisons between Windows 3. However, Win3. Perry rises to the challenge by understanding that people already have established skills which need to be redirected, not ignored. A perfectly decent, acceptable, plain vanilla introduction to the program.

No bells and whistles, but no real complaints, either. If you prefer a less text-intensive introduction to Windows 95, you might want to check out Windows 95 Simplified from the maranGraphics Visual 3D Series.

The full-colour illustrations in this book are just beautiful, and maranGraphics is clearly re-creating and not simply capturing Windows 95 screens. This book easily has the clearest and most readable window images of any of the books reviewed here.

Numbered, step-by-step instructions and clear, colourful graphics are more than helpful in familiarizing the reader with the basics of Windows Either book will serve the purpose admirably, although I think the maranGraphics book is probably superior for younger readers.

Where Windows 95 Simplified and How To Use Windows 95 use their graphics to clarify and explain the arcane world of graphical operating systems, the graphics in The Way Microsoft Windows 95 Works often seem to exist for their own sake only, scattered randomly across the page in pretty but meaningless patterns. They are also ludicrously inconsistent. Beautiful computer illustrations are paired page after page with frankly amateurish cartoons of the WYSIWYG Wizard, an irritating and charmless character who just gets in the way of the learning process.

At the extreme opposite end of the spectrum is the Microsoft Windows 95 Resource Kit , also published by Microsoft Press. This massive 1,page-plus tome is aimed only at computer professionals or professional masochists.

Ordinary mortals who only use basic applications like word processing, spreadsheets, and games would find it useful solely as part of a weight-lifting regimen.

This book features three Resource Kit software disks bound into the back cover. Livingstone and Straub are software beta testers who have been living with different versions of Windows 95 since Our last enormous tome from Que, weighing in at about four pounds and an astounding 1, pages, is Using Windows Special Edition by Ron Person. There you have it. Eleven breathless books about a software upgrade. Eleven books with bound-in CD-ROMs, holographic covers, and page counts higher than the average phone book.

And there are more. Scores more. Microsoft Press alone has about 80 titles. However, if you have what it takes and modern space strategies don't interest you, you will truly find an extraordinary companion in Star General. The game is in a sense even more fun to play today than it was in its time. This is because large scale battles required a whole lot of computational power to run properly, and today turns which could have taken hours to calculate can be processed nearly instantly.

So if you're not put down by graphics that are not top-notch, you will find that this game provides a really good challenge and a really intricate, chess like experience, only more complicated and brain braiding. While some of the ships were hard to tell apart, the ability to have such variaty of ships not only between races, but also within a given race, made this a game I was able to play time and again.