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Variable Investment Analyst (V.I.A.), is where it all began, about 1990. It was an MS-DOS program, originally written to take advantage of the more limited memory and power of the older XT class computers. Eventually, it was rewritten from the ground up for 32-bit Windows platforms, as Horizon Investment Analyst.
Variable Investment Analyst has similar features as the windows version, including Basis worksheets, charts, pull down menus, dialog boxes, mouse support, etc.
News! (06/2003): New version 6.00 changes the 'Combined IRR' option to also print the total value of the portfolio, and other aggregate statistics.
See Readme.doc for details.
News! (12/2002): Version 5.99 fixed a nasty bug that caused the program to crash when you changed a transaction record, added new Printer/page setup options, 2 new columns ('Record Type' and 'Error') when 'Listing' an investment to disk file, transaction record date & arithmetic error warnings, explanation of 'How date ranges affect calculations', bug fixes, and many other enhancements. The Variable Investment Analyst and Horizon Investment Analyst can also now share the same data files.
Here are some screen shots (click them for a larger image):
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| Main screen. | Chart of Dow Jones 30 Industrial index. |
Variable Investment Analyst is available on the Downloads page.
For Tips, techniques, and tricks to use with Variable Investment Analyst and other MS-DOS applications, including how to create shortcuts for them and integrate them seamlessly with Windows, click one of these sites, which will open in a new window:
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/baldwinwh/DOSPgms/DOSPgms.html, or
http://wb1.150m.com/DOSPgms/DOSPgms.html
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