Products

Introduction

Software Development Laboratories is the home for high quality Hercules emulator software for Windows. Several quality Windows products are offered to make your Hercules experience simpler and much more enjoyable.

Click on any of the below images for more detailed information about each individual product.


HercGUI



HercGUI is a standard Windows program that makes the Hercules emulator much easier and more enjoyable to use.

It automatically maintains your Hercules configuration and log files by means of standard Windows dialogs and provides realistic real-time feedback of your virtual mainframe's activity.
HercPrt



HercPrt is a remote Hercules printer spooler.

It is designed to receive text output from a Hercules line printer, and create a PDF, RTF, HTML or text file on your Windows system.
CTCI-WIN



CTCI-WIN provides your Hercules guest operating system with a real presence on your Windows host's real local network.

CTCI-WIN provides networking enabled mainframe operating systems running under Hercules with a simulated Ethernet adapter thereby allowing it to communicate with your local or outside network.
AWSBrowse



AWSBrowse is a simple Windows program used to view the contents of AWS/HET emulated tape files including both Flex fake tapes and Bus-Tech tape files.

Data can be displayed in either hex or EBCDIC or ASCII format as well as searching, printing, and copying & pasting data to the Windows clipboard.

Evaluating

You may download any product for a free trial with no obligation whatsoever and take as long as needed to evaluate it. There is no time limit.

All trial copies are fully functional but those products offered for purchase are marked as trial copies and contain watermarks and/or splash screens identifying them as such. Purchased copies do not contain such watermarks.

Once you have finished evaluating the product you are expected to then purchase a legal copy if you wish to continue using it.

Purchasing

Each offering may be purchased individually at the indicated retail price or several products may be purchased collectively at the same time as a package at substantial discount (approximately 20%). Click on any of the products' Purchase buttons to reach the Buy Now web page where you can see a list of available packages and their corresponding prices.

Multiple copies of each offering may also be purchased at an even greater discount. Contact Software Development Laboratories for more information regarding large quantity discounts.

Software development Laboratories is also keenly sensitive to those unlucky few to be suffering from severe financial hardship (employment loss, healthcare costs or health issues, etc) and is willing to offer its products to such individuals at whatever cost their current financial situation and/or conscience allows. Contact Software Development Laboratories directly for more information.

SoftDevLabs currently uses PayPal as its payment processor. You do not need to have a PayPal account to make a payment. Paypal accepts all major credit cards as well as direct debit of pre-existing PayPal or bank accounts for any of your purchases.

If you wish to make your purchase by personal check or money order instead, please mail your payment (payable to David B. Trout) to the following address:
David B. Trout
Software Development Laboratories
14717 NE 40th Place
Apartment 909
Bellevue, WA   98007-3320
USA
Once payment has been made you will then be sent your download URL where you can download your purchased product(s) from. Be sure to include either your mailing address or email address so I can send you your download link.

Updates

Updates released within one year of purchase will be available free of charge. If it has been longer than one year since your purchase however, then you will need to purchase the product again to get the new version.