Cards

From ZDNET: Saver's BasketBall Cards Collection
From Nissen Ventures. Saver's Basketball tracks your basketball card collection. Save information in the database such as card number and condition. Input player's personal information such as height and weight. Enter player statistics specific to basketball such as assists and rebounds. The program is not highly flexible. The user cannot customize field lengths and descriptions, sorting criteria, and display options. But those needing only a very simple program may find it just the thing. System Requirements Windows 3.1x Purchase Information Shareware: Free to try, $9.95 if you decide

From ZDNET: Sportcheck-Basketball Edition
From Software Creations, Inc. The Sportcheck-Basketball Edition provides a turnkey database solution for basketball card collectors. The database contains data on more than 20,000 cards for all the major card manufacturers, including Topps, SkyBox, Fleer, Bowman, Star NBA, Upper Deck, and Hoops. Going back to 1948, the database lists the player's name and the card's current selling value. Just fill in the card's condition next to its listing, and the program fills in the current value. The program contains values for five different conditions, from good to mint. The Sportcheck--Basketball Edition can also track values for complete collections, and lets you create personal collections for unique cards that aren't listed in the database. Updates to the database are released quarterly, and users receive three free issues upon registration. System Requirements DOS 3.3 Purchase Information: Shareware: Free to try, $29.50 if you decide to keep it. Registration benefits include: bulletin board support, expanded features, free updates, manual, program disks.

From ZDNET: Ballcards
From BOB-KIT Software. Ballcards is a database program designed to help collectors track cards. The predefined categories are baseball, basketball, football, and hockey, but it's easy to create up to 36 more categories. You enter information on each card, such as manufacturer, year, card number, purchase price, sale price, and hi/lo price. Three comments fields per card are also available. Predefined report structures allow you to create reports such as cards from a certain manufacturer, of a certain player or a particular year, or many others. You can send reports to disk or printer. Ballcards is a must for any card collector. Registration brings a 175,000-card database. This version is a minor update. System Requirements 640K RAM and DOS 3.3 Purchase Information: Shareware: Free to try, $29.95 if you decide to keep it. Registration benefits include: bulletin board support.

From ZDNET: Win95 Card Collectors Database
By Trevor Rowell. Win95 Card Collectors Database helps keep sport card collections organized. You can log your baseball, basketball, football, or soccer cards and keep track of individual players and card manufacturers. This program is easy to use, but the online help file has not been included. There is one type of report in the unregistered version. You receive more report styles when you register. You can add and edit card sets, individual cards, card types, and the manufacturer, or you can browse your collection. Registration brings several report types, the ability to query, record tagging, and the ability to personalize your reports. System Requirements 486 processor and Windows 32-bit Purchase Information Shareware: Free to try, $15 if you decide to keep it. Registration benefits include: bulletin board support.

From ZDNET: Sports Card Information Manager
By Silver Hill Development. SCIM is an inventory management system designed to help you manage and evaluate your sports card collection quickly and easily. SCIM includes pre-defined sports card data for baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Indicate in the program how many copies of each card your collection includes. If you prefer, you can also create additional, customized sets as needed. When you add new cards, SCIM will help analyze your collection with a variety of reports, including common card collections, premium cards, and cards needed to complete a set. System Requirements Windows 3.11 Purchase Information Shareware: Free to try, $25-$45 if you decide to keep it. Registration benefits include: expanded features.