Convoy and 18 Wheels Of Steel Convoy Software for Windows

phoenicas
$19.95 - mytaras

After a successful alien attack on earth, only 6 humans escaped. Five are onboard non-firing space vessels and one (you) is piloting the only remaining fighting craft. Your mission is to guard the vessels on the journey to safety. Aliens will attack the convoy and try to kill you and abduct the vessels, eliminating the human race. Visit www.phoenicas.com for world rankings, screenshots, downloads and full instructions.
Phoenicas is an arcade musical 2d shooter in the styles of defender, exerion, phoenix, ikaruga and space invaders. Blast the invaders to pieces while protecting the last remaining humans, using upgradeable weapons and powerups and fight your way through the choreographed levels and game modes to achieve the highest scores. Score by combos, fastkills, selective shooting and accuracy, as well as effectively protecting and rescuing humans from the hands of the aliens.
Phoenicas is an old school score-driven 2d shooter. It is a hardcore shooter at heart but has been made easier and more accessible for novices to enjoy also. (mouse control, easy mode etc). Use of a proper arcade joystick like hotrod or x-arcade is highly recommended.
The defender-like mechanic of protecting humans and rescuing them right from the hands of the abductors dramaticises the gameplay experience.
Novel twists are a unique 2-player cooperative mode (second player manages credits won by player 1 to assist in the action) and an 'expert' control mode that allows the ship to tilt left and right in order to aim more percisely (or not!)
Check out the online world rankings at www.phoenicas.com and upload your highscores! The best phoenicas players are always displayed on the first page. Good luck.

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18 Wheels of Steel Haulin'
$19.99 - SCS Software

Do you have the juice to go from gearjammer to boss man in the trucking business? Climb in the can and find out! You're steering the whole operation, from choosing the trucks and trailers to hiring the drivers in your fleet. Life on the road is filled with obstacles. Avoid the hazards and you'll be haulin' it in. But, make too many wrong turns along the way and it could be a lost cause. That fire in your belly is gonna take you straight to the top. Take risks, cash in and upgrade your rig. Work hard and you might end up driving the whole show!

18 Wheels of Steel: Haulin' takes the series back to its truck simulation roots. With a much higher emphasis on the trucking business side of the game, the player's driving skills as well as business instincts are constantly challenged.

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18 Wheels of Steel Across America
$19.99 - SCS Software

Heed the call of the open road, throw the gears in motion and take off in a tractor trailer. Drive faster than your competition, haul your cargo across the entire United States and feel the wind in your face as you control your own destiny. Blast the horn and build a career in the fast-paced world of trucking. Keep in mind that there's more to being a successful businessman than just driving fast. You've got to manage your money, keep your rig running smooth and watch out for speed traps that might trip you up. Bad weather? Fuel troubles? Tricky loading docks that require pinpoint precision? It's all part of life in the cab of a 18-wheeler. If you've got the guts, jump in a truck and head out for the highway.

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18 Wheels of Steel Pedal to the Metal
$19.99 - SCS Software

Take your show on the road. Drive your rig to make it big and build your business. Money talks when you're in charge, so get the peons to do the driving while you count your cash. You're not only a trucker, you're a tycoon.
You are the Boss and you give the orders. You own up to 35 trucks and you own the road. Dispatch 45 cargo types. Keep this country movin while you build a trucking empire. Keep your 18-Wheeler in prime condition by repairing damage and outfitting your rig with dozens of upgrades. Haul it all through 30 cities from Mexico to Canada, from sea to shining sea.

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Robotic Combat Racers
$0 - congador

Offroad, mud, dirt, and rocket launchers. Tracks or wheels - speed counts and so does armor in this suspension bridge over canyon battleground. This is no humans' game. This is a job for steel muscled robots that can (and will) hold 200 pound titanium munching chainsaws out of a window and won't drop them when hit by a bullet. Pitch your skills against human and alien robot masters, join your friends in all out online matches and win the big scrap-metal trophy. Build your own combat machine from the ground up, select powerful engines and a solid frame, add an 18-inch gun turret, take a bribe to use it on some particular competitor if you can't afford it out of hand, consider an energy beamer, and don't forget the obligatory railgun.

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SI Ping
$0 - Pingram Software

Test communication with remote computer and check its online status over the Internet with free and visual Ping tool for Windows.

What did your mom do when you got sick being a kid? Most probably the first thing she did was giving you a thermometer to check your body heat. If you are trying to access a remote computer and are not getting a response, chances are that computer is not functioning properly. In other words, it might be sick. But how would you give a thermometer to that PC?

There is a free tool called ping.exe that comes with most versions of Windows. You can use this tool to poke the remote PC and check its response. To use ping.exe, you would typically invoke a command line, which would open a black console window, and type ping.exe followed with IP address of the computer you want to check. Usually you would get a response right in the console window in a matter of seconds. You would judge - or, rather, guess, - the remote computer's health by the cryptic numbers printed as decimal integers. If the remote computer is not available, or if the network is not available, or if some link or a piece of hardware in between you and the remote PC has failed, you'll get nothing. It is up to you to guess what and where have failed.

SI Ping, on the other hand, gives clearly legible and well formatted output by providing easy to understand and well explained numbers. It displays all the vital information, such as time to access the remote computer, in milliseconds, and allows you to ping more than one computer by simply selecting their address from a combo box. Thanks to its user-friendly, convenient user interface, SI Ping is much more convenient to use than the Windows ping.exe.

SoftInstitute releases well-designed, simple to use products that help computer users solve one particular problem. Our products are free, and typically perform just one task, such as ping, trace route, or lookup, but do it in a convenient manner.

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