Helpers and Viewers For Windows

A useful listing of viewers for Windows is maintained by Netscape Communications Corp.
Another listing of viewers for Windows is maintained by NCSA
You can also get advice from the WebMuseum in Paris!

Utilities

PKUnzip (pkunzip.exe) a shareware DOS utility program to extract files from a ".ZIP" file.

Winzip (winzip55.exe) a shareware Windows utility program to extract files from a ".ZIP" file. Self extracting archive: just run it from the DOS prompt.

Picture viewers

Lview (lviewp31.zip) a shareware GIF and JPEG picture viewer.

Lview Pro (lviewp1a.zip) a shareware GIF and JPEG picture viewer.

Animation viewers

MPEGPlay (mpegplay.zip) a shareware MPEG animation viewer.

QuickTime extensions for Windows the necessary files that will allow you to run QuickTime movies with the Windows Media Player (mplayer.exe)

Video For Windows (vidwin.zip) is the Microsoft Video for Windows Runtime v1.1 to display AVI animation files.

Document viewers

Adobe Acrobat allows you to view and print .pdf (Portable Document Format) files with the hardware and software you already have. Free from Adobe Systems Inc.

Ghostscript, Ghostview &GS View Ghostscript (gs261exe.zip), Fonts for Ghostscript (gs260fnt.zip), and a Windows interface for Ghostscript (gs26wi3b.zip) extracted to the same directory, creates a Postscript document viewer.

Sound players

Speak (speak.exe) a PC speaker driver produced by Microsoft that is freely available to licensed Windows 3.1 users. This is a self extracting archive -- just run it from the DOS prompt.

Wham (wham131.zip) a freeware audio player that plays .AU and .AIFF sound files using Windows-supported sound cards.

Wplany (wplny09b.zip) a shareware audio player that works well with the PC speaker driver and Windows-supported sound cards.

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