PD Pool - Public Domain

The Poolware disks, also known as the P series, is a series from Germany that starts with disk number 2000. Created and curated by various Atari dealers, Poolware doesn’t have a specific focus, covering both games and applications. The series was advertised with full-page ads in German Atari magazines with the cost split between the participating dealers. The dealers also sold the magazine PD Szene. With the disk 2331 the business model of the Pool series changed: The disks now cost 10 instead of 8 DM, for which a 20 percent royalty was paid per disk sold. A condition was exclusivity to the Pool series. Usually such programs contain a note that distribution via other commercial series is prohibited.

P 2401
  • PoolFAKT 2.08
  • Steuer Profi
    Professional program for calculating wage and income tax. The program is also available in a DOS version. Tests in various magazines. Shareware, cheap update possibility for following years.
  • Überweisungsauftrag
    Printing of the usual bank transfer forms.
P 2402
P 2403
  • Crazy Cubes
    Action game in which two balls are controlled through a landscape with obstacles.
  • Magicbal
  • Slide 1.2
    Labyrinth game. You have to guide a figure through a labyrinth and eat small points within a certain time. The task is made more difficult by unconventional controls and deadly fields that should not be entered.
P 2404 Missing
  • Pepolon: Life's a beach
  • Rudi 2.0
  • Zyklop II - Hyleilos 1.7
    A revamped version of Zyklop now with multi-screens and special spells. Collect all the diamonds to get the exit key. Once collected, a diamond's shadow turns into a skull. Don't bump into them. Shapeshifters Music.
P 2405
P 2406
  • Kritzel 4.01
    Graphic program incl. source code in GfA-Basic (over 4000 lines). Many special functions: Block compression and rotation, prism and pyramid, spraying with pattern, Bézier curves. STAD and IMG images can be loaded and saved. Different print sizes.
  • Diaschau 1.5
    Reads pictures in STAD format and displays them as a slide show
P 2407
  • ChampWord 1.3c
    Word processing program. Printout also in graphic mode, loading of 1st Wordplus files, loading and saving of ASCII texts, bookmarks, block operations (also with text columns), small calculator with result transfer, function keys can be assigned with phrases and special characters, spelling correction when writing or later, built-in link virus protection
  • Minitext II 1.02
  • TWsortJB 1.0
  • WSORT_JB
    WSORT_JB.PRG (dictionary sorting by Jens Bender) is a utility for the word processing program THAT's WRITE from V.2.0 on by COMPO.
P 2408
P 2409
P 2410 Missing
  • Gesichts-Montage 3.1
    Creates mug shots of men and women, similar to That's Funface.
  • Silent Diashow 2.0
    Images in color or black and white resolution (Neochrome or Degas) are loaded into the memory and displayed from there, the display duration is adjustable. Images from libraries can be selected from freely definable lists.
P 2411
P 2412 Missing
P 2413
P 2414
  • Alien Patrol
    Alien Patrol is a vertically scrolling shooting game in which the player follows a three-lane highway with a jet bike. Various obstacles, bottlenecks, oncoming vehicles and minelayers are a constant danger to the player, but they can be avoided or fought with the onboard cannon.
  • Fox Brothers
    Platform game for 1-2 foxes, who compete against numerous enemies in two worlds, each with 30 levels. In each level there is a dangerous guard. At the upper edge of the game board more enemies appear, which can be fought with lightning, thunder and rain clouds. With every hit, the enemies lose valuable items that help solve the level when they are picked up by the players. At the end of each world a strong boss is waiting.
P 2415
P 2416
P 2417
P 2418 Missing
  • Quickread 1.0
  • Mathe-Trainer 2.0
    Learning program with the four basic arithmetic operations as well as root and faculty calculation.
  • Der kleine Professor 2.01
    Math learning program for younger people. In addition to the four basic arithmetic operations, square roots can also be practiced at various levels of difficulty. With source code.
P 2419
  • IMG-PLOT 1.0
  • Messgraph 1.0
  • Taplo 1.9
    A tool for the evaluation of one-dimensional measurement series, statistical data acquisition or other numerical values. New in version 1.9 is the possibility of linear and Lagrange interpolation and the calculation of probabilities
P 2420
P 2421
P 2423
  • Galaxie 2.4
    Strategy game
  • Krypton Faktor II 1.1
  • Ökotego 2.0
    Ökotego is an environmental game in which the interaction of different factors should be included in the decision-making process. This requires 'networked thinking', which can be practiced with Ökotego. The user should increase the quality of life and stabilize the living environment by influencing production, environmental protection, education, etc. by assigning action points.
  • Shift 3 3.1
    Improvement of the button game.
P 2424
  • Hut
  • Murder (Motelsoft)
  • Türme von Hanoi (Motelsoft)
    Towers of Hanoi is a puzzle game. You have to move the rings from left to right with as few moves as possible. To do this, click with the mouse below the desired stack. No larger ring may lie on top of a smaller one.
  • U-Boot
    Variation of ship sinking. Each player receives a number of boats, which are hidden on the game board. Depending on the number of boats ready for battle, the player has up to 30 torpedoes per round at his disposal, which may be fired at the opponent. If hits are scored, the exact position of an opponent's boat can be determined and it can be sunk with additional torpedoes. The program confronts the solo player with a computer opponent.
P 2425
P 2426
  • Van Gogh 4.0
    Painting, drawing and animation program for all three resolutions with many features. Fast conversion of an image to the current resolution. Processing of three images simultaneously, integrated sprite editor, possibility to create animation sequences and 3D part with rotation and translation bodies.
P 2428
P 2429
  • GIRO-STB 1.9
    For streamlining the giro traffic. Instead of manually compiling collective transfers or direct debits, the data is stored on disk in a format prescribed by banks. Giro STB is suitable for small to medium-sized companies and freelancers who regularly create credit transfers or direct debits. Giro STB can accept transfer orders from other programs (financial accounting, calculation, etc.) or make them available to other programs. Multiple manual data entry of records can thus be avoided. A precondition for the use of Giro STB is the existence of a contract with the bank for paperless payment transactions. With GEM interface and multi-level password protection. Extensive ASCII text and document output for 1st Wordplus and That's Write. New in version 1.9: Use also in medium resolution and on large monitors. Extended printing options, additional keyboard codes also during input/correction, improved access/password control. Search by recipient name (incl. wildcard) is possible, clipboard procedure is supported, compiler errors (rounding errors) were bypassed (2 floppies or hard disk).
  • MiniDat 2.7
    MDAT is a small data management program. MiniDat is used to manage any kind of data (e.g. addresses, CDs, books etc.). The necessary masks can be created with the mask editor.
P 2430
  • Ritter der Lüfte 2.0
    Knight of the Skies: Simulates duels between reckless pilots in flying boxes made of plywood, cloth and wire. Fokker triplane, Sopwith Camel, SPAD XIII and other famous aircraft are available to the two to six pilots. Different performance characteristics, aerodynamic characteristics and armament of the machines make every air fight a real shaking party. Critical hits, material fatigue, jamming and pilot errors often lead to the abrupt end of a patrol flight. Anyone who finds the way to the home airstrip after a successful mission and safely touches down the perforated aircraft can count oneself lucky. Emergency landings with smoking and stuttering engines, shredded surfaces and critical damage often only succeed for experienced pilots.
P 2431
  • Profibase ST 7.0
    Mouse and menu controlled file management, also suitable for professional use. Creation of individual masks, powerful query language. Freely definable fields of various types (text, whole and floating point numbers, date and target field, commercial (number, currency) and images)
  • Profitext 5.0
    Word processor. Dictionary with automatic correction, hyphenation aid, phrases, big headlines when printing, character set integration, columns, freely definable printer settings.
P 2433
P 2434
P 2435
P 2436
  • GFA-Bild 6.52
    Drawing program for all three screen resolutions. Easy manipulation of the image by tilting or applying it to a three-dimensional body. GfA-Bild reads most common image formats on the Atari ST and can also quickly convert images of other resolutions. Besides the system character set, Signum fonts can also be used in GfA-Bild.
  • Run Only Pictures 1.0
P 2437
P 2438
P 2440
P 2441
  • NEC-Emu 1.3
    Hardcopy driver for the NEC Px series. Creates hardcopies in 12 different sizes and contrasts and contains a printer spooler.
  • ProCharts 1.2
  • GfA-Charts 3.30B
    Creates business graphics of all kinds. Data input via editor, simple graphic functions for editing the graphics.
  • FX80Quer 1.1
  • Finanz 1.10
    Invoicing and small income/expense accounting
P 2442
P 2443
  • Pacballs III
    Third part of the game about the hero PacBall, who has to solve different tasks in a labyrinth à la PacMan.
  • Train II
P 2444
P 2445
P 2446
P 2447
P 2448
P 2449
  • 1st Image
    Images in PI3, PAC, DOO and IMG format can be loaded and a section of them can be saved in IMG format. Since the program can also be installed as an accessory, it is suitable as a supplement to word processors with graphic integration, e.g. 1st Word Plus
  • Grapher
    Allows the use of graphical elements within Signum and other programs
  • Signum Fonts Krani
P 2450
  • Nightsky (Naber)
    NIGHTSKY is an astronomical program made for the amateur astronomer and other persons who are interested in astronomy.

Standard support
GEMScript
OLGA
BubbleGEM
Programs written in...
Assembler
GFA-Basic
Pure C
STOS