We had a number of criteria and many challenges in creating the disk. The first criteria was that each offering was to be free. That is, the author of the program put it in the public domain not expecting any commercial benefit from his efforts. Each program on the disk represents many hours of labor. We can all thank authors of these programs for their willingness to share the fruit of their efforts with others.
We realized that most 95LX users don't have much spare time, and so our second criteria was to find software that was easy-to-use, easy-to-learn, and easy-to-install.
Thirdly, out of the many programs to choose from, we tried to select those programs which the vast majority or at least a significant segment of our readers could take advantage of.
Since most of you are busy people, we decided to create the means whereby you could start using much of the disk as quickly and easily as possible. This approach also presented a number of challenges.
How could we create a quick-start, easy-to-use environment for programs written by different authors, many designed to run from DOS rather than System Manager? How could we plan for the many different configurations of desktops and HP 95LXs? Considering 95LX users alone, some have plain 512K systems and never use DOS while others have 1 MB HP 95LX, use several RAM cards, and have quite a sophisticated setup using AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, and APNAME.LST files.