Ability Plus is an integrated software package written for DOS in the early 80s. Development ceased in 1995 with the last build made in November 1997. It was succeeded by Ability Office on Windows, described below.
Ability combined write, spreadsheet, database, graphing and communication functions in a single interface called the Library Screen. The main modules were written from the ground up to share as much code as possible so that, for example, a field in the write or database module would call on the same recalculation engine as the spreadsheet and the display and print routines were common to all.
Despite lack of development for over a decade, Ability Plus 3.0, the last version, will still run quite happily under a Windows 7 command prompt.
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