New England Classical Journal

CLASSICAL COMPUTING

The following programs or course materials are available to download via anonymous FTP or the WWW:

1. The complete text of Catullus edited and corrected after Mynor's 1958 Oxford text. WWW URL: http://marcus.whitman.edu:80/Departments/Classics/ cattxt.html.

2. A number of Macintosh programs created by Matt Neuburg to ac company the JACT Cambridge textbook Reading Greek will be found at the WWW URL: http://www.tidbits.com/matt. These include:
   
   • JACT Greek Stacks, a set of HyperCard stacks with drills and exercises keyed to the textbook (HyperCard 2.1 or later and System 7 are required; if your computer has Apple's Speech Manager, the stacks will pronounce Greek for the student; the files have to be converted with Stuffit Expander or equivalent);

   • JACT Vocabulary Stack includes all the vocabulary learned from the textbook (the program allows this vocabulary to be sorted and consulted in ways likely to be useful to students and teachers, and creates flashcards; HyperCard required);

   • Greek Verb Help presents a paradigm, in color, of a Greek -œ verb in hypertext format;

   • JACT Plato Reader is a hypertext grammatical commentary on the selections from Plato in the JACT second- and third-year textbook The Intellectual Revolution.

3. Latinitas is a Latin grammar program for the Macintosh OS, with vocabulary and grammar keyed to four Latin textbooks: the Oxford and Cambridge Latin series, Wheelock and Ecce Romani. You can download a demonstration copy from the Latinitas' homepage at URL: http://www.epas.utoronto.ca:8080/~brucerob/ Latinitas/intro.html.

4. A hypertext version of the Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar is available from the the University of Washington Libellus project at URL: http://osman.classics.washington.edu/libellus/aides/allgre/allgre.contents.html.

5. Roman Calendar, Vinco Bingo and Natalis are three Macintosh shareware programs written by Professor Leo Curran, State University of New York at Buffalo:
   • Roman Calendar produces an 8.5" by 11" wall calendar for any month of any year; the square for each day of the month contains, in a variety of typefaces, the day's number according to our calendar, the day's number as the Romans counted it, and the full Latin name of the day;

   • Vinco Bingo creates sets of "bingo" cards from your own list of words (vocabulary, grammatical forms, cultural items, etc.) in the language of your choice; each card contains a different random selec- tion of your words arranged in a random location in the boxes on the card; included with the set of cards is a sheet with all of your words listed in random order, which you can use to call out the definitions of your words when you play the game with your students;

   • Natalis allows you to print a decorative certificate bearing the student's name, a short Latin text, and the student's birth date accord- ing to the Roman calendar.

   For information about these programs contact Professor Leo Curran, Depart ment of Classics, State Uniiversity of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260; e-mail lccurran@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu.

6. Lingua Latina is a shareware program which drills users on Latin grammar. It can be accessed via FTP at oak.oakland.edu under SimTel/msdos/langtutr or via the WWW at URL: http://gopher.uconn.edu/~hasenfra/wlatin.HTML.

7. Greek and Latin Language Drills are available from the SimTel Software Repository at ftp://oak. oakland.edu/SimTel/msdos/langtutr. There are three files for Greek vocabulary drills: the basic program (greekprc.zip), and vocabularies for Crosby and Schaeffer (greekcs.zip) and Luschnig (greeklus.zip). The Latin language drill, found in the same directory (latinttr.zip), is geared to Aeneid 1, but other texts can be used.

8. SCRIBA is a computer program to accompany and enhance use of the Oxford Latin Course, Part I. It is available free of charge via anonymous FTP at ftp:// athena.cornell-iowa.edu/scriba/ or via the WWW at the URL: http://www.CornellIowa.edu/CornellDocs/Acad/ ClassicalStudies/scriba/. You may also obtain SCRIBA on diskette at cost ($5.00) by writing to Professor John Gruber-Miller, SCRIBA Software, Classical and Modern Languages, Cornell College, 600 First Street West, Mt. Vernon, IA 52314.

9. The Latin text of Vergil's Eclogues, along with vocabulary and notes, is available in a hypertext-type format for Windows. The program can be downloaded by anonymous FTP from the site oak.oakland.edu under /SimTel/win3/educate/; the filename is eclogs.zip. It is also available via the WWW at URL: ftp://oak. oakland.edu/SimTel/win3/educate/. This program is written in VisualBasic 3 and requires that the file vbrun300.dll be installed on your PC. It is usually found in the \windows\system directory (if you don't have this file, it is available at many sites besides the Oakland one listed above; put vbrun300.dll in your \windows\system directory. The Eclogues program requires Windows 3.1, and is being offered as freeware.

10. Dale Grote's Guide to Wheelock's Latin Grammar is a set of drills and exercises for Wheelock's text. The file can be accessed and downloaded at gopher://wiretap.spies.com/00/Library/Classic/latin.stu