Category : BASIC Source Code
Archive   : PBWIZ21.ZIP
Filename : CATALOG.TXT

Thomas G. Hanlin III
3544 E. Southern Ave. #104
Mesa, AZ 85204



This catalog lists files that are included on my Sampler disks.
The Sampler is available for $5.00 ($1 + $4 p&h). This listing
is representative, as items are added and removed over time. If
you mention your interests when ordering, I will tailor your
disks accordingly. Don't forget to specify disk size/capacity.

Foreign orders must be by international money order, traveler's
check, cash, or otherwise payable directly through a U.S. bank.

The Sampler fee does not include any shareware registrations.
You are still expected to register shareware you find useful.

In most cases, registration of a product provides you with the
ability to upgrade to later releases at a reduced rate, as well
as some additional benefit. This is often in the form of full
source code, in the case of programming tools and libraries. I
am in the process of adding printed manuals for all products.

Prices listed do not include the $4 p & h (per order) fee.



2MON: Utilities for dual-monitor systems. Free.

Utilities include a clock TSR which runs on the mono display,
a utility to clear the mono display, and a TSR which remaps
the PrintScreen key-- instead of going to the printer, it
copies the color display to the mono display.



AABAS: Affordable Alternative BASIC Library. Shareware ($4).

This is a good library for people curious about the workings
of their computer, learning how to use libraries, or
interested in writing their own assembly language routines
for QuickBasic. It is a collection of scores of simple BIOS
and DOS-related routines written in assembly language. AABAS
is not as fancy as my other BASIC libraries, but it's quite
useful in its own right and a great learning tool.

Source code (MASM 6.0) provided on registration. Registered
owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.

ASMWIZ: The Assembly Wizard's Library. Shareware ($25).

This is a library of over 175 routines for assembly language.
The library will work with A86, MASM, OPTASM, and TASM. Only
tiny model (.COM format) is supported. Routines include text
displays (machine-level, BIOS, and DOS), graphics (Hercules,
CGA, EGA, VGA), number base conversions, long integer math,
file matching and command-line parsing, pseudo-random number
generation, countdowns and delays, buffered file support with
critical error handling, environment scanning, ASCIIZ string
functions, keyboard support, mouse support, sound generation,
control over Break, loading of BSAVE-format files, and more.

Source code (MASM 6.0) provided upon registration. Registered
owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.



BASUPD: BASIC Update Library. Free.

This library provides routines for QuickBasic 4.x which mimic
new functions and commands provided by other Microsoft BASIC
compilers, such as PDS 7.x and Visual Basic for DOS. These
include disk routines and a powerful selection of time and
date functions.

Full source code is included.

BASWIZ: The BASIC Wizard's Library. Shareware ($35).

This is a library for Microsoft BASIC compilers: QuickBasic,
PDS, and VB/DOS. It contains an equation solver; far string
support (even for QuickBasic!); powerful file handling, with
buffering, critical error handling, and sharing support;
telecommunications for COM1-COM4; memory management and
pointers; a powerful virtual windowing system; a high-res
timer and delay system (accurate to milliseconds); more!

Extensive graphics support is built in. It handles all
standard modes: MDA, Hercules (no TSR needed), CGA, EGA, VGA,
SuperVGA (Tseng 4000 and VESA), Epson-compatible dot matrix
printers, and HP-compatible laser printers. Printer graphics
output can be previewed on the display. Special non-standard
VGA modes are included, providing up to 360x480 graphics in
256 colors on ordinary VGAs. Fonts, polygons, multi-colored
text-- it's all in here, and more.

BasWiz math support will handle even the most demanding
applications. It extends BASIC's own math and provides two
other alternatives: fraction math and BCD support. With BCD,
you can have up to 254 digits! This is no minimal four-
function BCD package, either. It includes a wide range of
support, including many trig functions, constants, and
conversions. Equally good for huge and tiny numbers.

Source code (MASM 6.0 and BASIC) provided on registration.
Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10. Well
over a megabyte of sources! Great learning tool.



BCMD: Better Commands for MS-DOS and DR DOS. Shareware ($29.95).

BCMD is a set of new and improved DOS commands designed to
coexist with your existing DOS command processor for total
compatibility with your existing applications. New utilities
include calculators and calendars, keyboard enhancers, text
file processors, assorted filters, and the ability to attach
descriptions to files (NDOS and 4DOS compatible), among other
things. There are many improvements to existing DOS commands
as well. For example, the BCOPY command allows you to copy
many files to many locations, with exception specifications:

BCOPY (*.TXT *.DOC) (A: B:) /E README.*

This example copies all .TXT and .DOC files in the current
directory, except for README files, to both A: and B: drives.
You can also specify quiet mode, prompting for confirmation,
the desired case of filespecs, file attributes, "test" mode,
and much more. Similar capabilities are included in all
applicable commands. Help is available for each command by
using the /? switch, as well as through an online reference.

Source code (MASM 6.0 and Turbo Pascal 6.0) and a printed
manual are provided on registration. Registered owners may
upgrade to later versions for $10.

BPP: A BASIC PreProcessor. Free.

This utility provides a powerful meta-language for PDS,
QuickBasic, Visual Basic for DOS, PowerBASIC, and even the
QBASIC provided with DOS 5.0. It processes your code before
the compiler gets to it, allowing conditional compilation,
underscores within variable names, flexible "include" files
(which may even contain SUB and FUNCTION definitions), name
substitutions, and more. C programmers have had preprocessors
for years-- now there's one for BASIC too!



EXECOM: EXE-to-COM converter. Free.

Like EXE2BIN, this utility converts .EXE files to .COM files.
It's smaller and faster, though, as well as offering a few
additional conveniences.

Source code (MASM) is included.



EXETOOL: EXE Tool. Free.

This program examines .EXE files for validity and can tell
you whether the .EXE was designed for use with Microsoft
Windows. If the .EXE file is determined to be too long, as it
might be if you got it using an older file transfer protocol,
you are given the option of truncating it to the right size.



IBRARY: Library for the ASIC compiler. Shareware ($8).

This library is for ASIC 4.0 and later versions. If you
haven't seen ASIC, it's a shareware BASIC compiler which
provides both command-line and editor/environment support. It
can produce .COM, .EXE, and .OBJ files. For more info about
ASIC, write its author:

David A. Visti
80/20 Software
P.O. Box 2952
Raleigh, NC 27602-2952

Ibrary contains over 200 routines which add to the ASIC
compiler. It provides support for the full range of color
graphics modes: SCREEN 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, N0, and N1.
The latter two modes are special 256-color modes which
provide up to 360x480 on standard VGAs! A large set of math
extensions, equipment detection routines, mouse support, DOS
file and directory handling, cursor on/off/info, screen save
and restore, DOS output, string functions, keyboard shift and
toggle info, and other goodies.

A printed manual and source code for Ibrary (MASM 6.0)
provided on registration. Registered owners may upgrade to
later versions for $1.

KEYCTL: Keyboard Control. Free.

For AT-class machines only (286, 386, 486, etc), this utility
allows you to speed up your keyboard (or make it less
sensitive for kids, etc). You can also swap the positions of
the CapsLock and Left Ctrl keys, useful for civilizing the
101-key "enhanced" keyboard.

Assembly language source code (MASM) is included.



LIBWIZ: The Library Wizard's *BASIC Library Manager*. Free.

This is a management tool for handling and customizing BASIC
libraries. It allows ready creation of subsets of existing
libraries, automatically resolving any interdependencies for
you. Tools for updating and extracting from libraries are
also included.

LibWiz is strongly recommended for my BasWiz and PBClone
libraries, due to the vast number of routines involved.



OBJTOOL: OBJ Tool. Shareware ($10).

This must be the ultimate tool for manipulating .OBJ files.
You can select files for inclusion or exclusion using
wildcards, time, date, and size comparisons, and even the
results of a search through the .OBJ file. View the file's
stats, rename publics, externals, and default libraries,
delete default libraries and languages, check for validity,
repair checksum errors-- ObjTool has it all. Useful for
reducing the size of libraries, resolving conflicting routine
names, patching .OBJs and just snooping around!

Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.

PASWIZ: The Pascal Wizard's Library. Shareware ($25).

This is a library for Turbo Pascal and compatibles. It
provides input handling (keyboard, mouse, and joystick),
music, BCD math, archive directories, string and math
enhancements, and other goodies.

The math routines provide a numeric expression evaluator
which allows you to convert equations into numbers at run
time. The math capabilities of Pascal have been expanded
significantly with new trig, inverse trig, hyperbolic trig,
and other functions. For the ultimate in numeric precision,
BCD math is also provided, allowing you to manipulate numbers
of up to 254 digits-- not just with the basic four functions,
but trig, square roots, factorials, constants with hundreds
of digits of precision, etc; formatted output can be done to
your specs. You can place the decimal point anywhere you
want, so this works equally well with very large and very
small numbers. String support includes compression,
encryption, fuzzy comparisons, and other goodies. The music
manager works like the BASIC PLAY language and BBS "ANSI
music". Archive routines allow getting full directory info
from .ARC, .ARJ, .LZH, .PAK, .ZIP, .ZOO, and self-extracting
.EXE archives.

Source code (MASM 6.0 and Pascal) provided on registration.
Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.



PBBACK: The PB Backwards-Compatible Library. Shareware ($25).

This library is like my PBClone library, but is compatible
with the full range of QuickBasic compilers: QB 1.0 - 4.5. It
is much easier to set up than PBClone but does not support
all newer compiler features and offers some 300 routines. No
printed manual. See the description for PBClone, below.



PBCLON: The PBClone Library. Shareware ($35).

This is a library for Microsoft BASIC compilers: QuickBasic
4.x, BASCOM and PDS, and Visual BASIC for DOS. It is the
successor to my old ADVBAS library. With over 610 routines,
this library covers a little bit of everything: mouse and
joystick support, SoundBlaster, disk wrangling, string
mangling, keyboard input, equipment detection, graphics, a
wide variety of display management, directory searching, text
compression, viewing archive directories (.ARC, .ARJ, .EXE,
.LZH, .PAK, .ZIP, .ZOO), matrix math, dates, times and
countdowns, sorts, binary searches, graphics, and... well,
it's hard to describe such a collection other than to say
"it's probably in here"!

Registration gets you a printed manual and full source code
(MASM 6 and BASIC), plus upgrades to later versions for $15.
Nearly two megabytes of sources! Great learning tool.

PBCWIN: The PBClone Windows Library. Shareware ($19.95).

This is a DLL for use in programming for Microsoft Windows.
It is oriented specifically towards Visual Basic, but can be
used with other Windows languages that support DLLs if you
know what you're doing. There are 79 routines in the first
version, including bit manipulation, array initialization,
PEEK, POKE, and SWAP routines, checksums and CRCs, equipment
information, string testing, and more.

Printed manual and source code (MS C 7.0 - Quick C++ 1.0)
provided on registration. Registered owners may upgrade to
later versions for $10.



QBWIZ: The QuickBasic Wizard's Library. Free.

A collection of routines which allow you to access internal
variables for QuickBasic 4.x, BASCOM 6.x, and PDS 7.x. You
can retrieve the screen mode, display adapter type, DEF SEG
setting, I/O redirection status, current screen colors, and
many other useful values.



TEXTRIS: A word game. Shareware ($7.95).

Textris is a little like Tetris and a little like Scrabble.
Random letters fall from the sky. Fit them together to make
words for points. Unused letters remain behind, cluttering
the arena until at last there is no space left to build new
words. Good spelling practice and addictive fun! Requires an
EGA, VGA or better display.

Dictionary editor provided upon registration. Registered
owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.



VCLOCK: Video clock TSR. Free.

This tiny TSR provides a running display of the time. You may
specify screen position, 12 or 24 hours, whether to display
seconds, the colors to use, and other parameters. Two
versions are provided-- one for 8088 PCs and one for later
machines.

Source code (MASM) is included.