JANUARY 1, 1995. STARDOCK SYSTEMS (SDS) INC., following up their smash hit
OS/2 multimedia game, Galactic Civilizations, announced a mini-application
suite called "OS/2 Essentials" today. This suite of apps is aimed at every
OS/2 user world wide and comes with a price tag likely to attract a great
many of them.

OS/2 Essentials includes a number of programs that every OS/2 user should
have but don't come with the operating system itself. It includes
commercial versions of:

o  Dir Master for OS/2, an advanced file manager
o  Screen Saver 2.0, a feature rich screen saver with green
   monitor support
o  Roids, a multimedia arcade game
o  Filebar, a task manager that acts as a launchpad/tasklist
   replacement
o  File Graph/PM, a multithreaded directory space grapher

The features of these products alone make OS/2 Essentials a must have for
any OS/2 user but the clincher is the $24.95 SRP price. Furthermore, SDS
has an extremely aggressive wholesale pricing scheme aimed at attracting
retailers to stock OS/2 Essential in quantity.

"We want to show retailers that they can make money on stocking OS/2
products by offering them a wholesale price guaranteed to make them
money." said Brad Wardell, a project manager at SDS.

SDS is not ignoring the corporate sites where OS/2 has gained much support
in the past couple years. Aggressively priced site licenses and an OEM
version with a SRP of $19.95 should encourage shops that do not purchase
software at retail outlets to get OS/2 Essentials.

SDS expects OS/2 Essentials to become one of the best selling OS/2 products
in history with its price/feature combo. A hit OS/2 product at the retail
level should make it easier for future OS/2 products to get shelf space.
It also opens the door for individual OS/2 software developers to make
more OS/2 products as their works get published by a commercial ISV such
as SDS.

The shrink wrapped package will begin shipping later this month, the OEM
version is available now. SDS, based in Gibraltar MI, can be reached at
(313)/782-2248, fax (313)/782-9868.

Stardock Systems Inc
13405 Addison
Gibraltar, MI 48173

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