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Breadbox Ensemble
Screen Shots
Thanks to Daniel Nesbitt for these screen shots!
In 2002 New Deal Office / GeoWorks was sold to Breadbox Computer Company
LLC and became "Breadbox Ensemble". The name "Ensemble" comes from GeoWorks
Ensemble (GeoWorks with the office suite). Apparently they only sold Breadbox
Ensemble to educational institutions, although reportedly it could be purchased
through various distributors.
There was, however, a free demo version for download, called Ensemble
Lite. The lite version lacks most of the applications of the commercial
version and does not include internet dial up. (Links removed because the
Beadbox web site is now defunct and pointing to garbage)
Overall, Breadbox Ensemble has some significant improvements over NDO
3.2a.
Visually, a few noticeable differences are:
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New 256 color icons
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More themes
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Gradient title bars
Breadbox Ensemble also includes a number of new applications including:
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GeoZip
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Macro recorder
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An FTP client
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An AIM compatible instant messenger.
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A significantly improved web browser.
Surprisingly, despite all of these new features, Breadbox Ensemble is close
to the same size as NDO 3.2a and still performs well even on old 386 systems.
In Breadbox Ensemble, the programs in the Express menu are now organized
in to groups.
The file manger has not changed too much. The menu items have been
reorganized, it now shows the folder location, a button is available to
navigate to the parent folder, and folders can optionally open in existing
windows.
Preferences has been reorganized so there are fewer buttons with some
related options merged together.
Breadbox ensemble includes slightly enhanced versions of the productivity
applications that came with NewDeal.
This screen shot shows Artist (formerly NewDraw), Spreadsheet (formerly
NewCalc), and Writer (formerly NewWrite).
It is interesting to note that the gradient feature was introduced
way back in GeoWorks Ensemble 2.0, way before Microsoft offered that feature
in Office!
Banker 3.0 has been significantly enhanced and it's stability vastly
improved over that of NewBanker.
HomeBase is a fast, highly customizable card file application that
can act as a very simple database.
GeoFile, part of the included office suite, is a feature rich graphical
database application. Features include a graphical forms builder, calculated
fields with a graphical expression builder, and multiple (continuous) record
layout.
Breadbox Ensemble features a number of multimedia capabilities including
sound support, and a CD player
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