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- WILF's PROGRAMMERS' WORKSHOP
-
- Several items appear this month, complementing discussions within issue
- number 53 (February 1991) of PC PLUS itself: WORKSHOP.EXE is a self-extracting
- library of all the items below: move to a directory on another disc and then
- execute WORKSHOP to expand it.
-
- ADAPT.BAT
- You will be a great help if you run this on your PC: it should
- (if it works properly) report what kind of display adaptor you
- have: VGA, EGA, CGA, Hercules or MDA. Please let us know if the
- results are suspicious. This .BAT uses the small program,
- ADAPTOR.COM
-
- CURD
- CURD.SCR is a 'script', input to DEBUG (as DEBUG <CURD.SCR ) that
- will create CURD.COM: this tiny program will determine which drive
- is currently the active one, and set ERRORLEVEL to reflect this,
- where 0 = A, 1 = B etc. CURD.COM is also present. See also
- GETDRIVE, also in this directory.
-
- GETDRIVE
- A Turbo Pascal source (.PAS) and program (.EXE) that provides the
- same sort of results as CURD.COM (also in this directory); this was
- sent in by B Edwards of Pencoed.
-
- KAMELEON
- J Worley (Clockwork Software, Havant) gave us this little
- 'do-nothing' program - a resident variant of our colour changer;
- it treats, though, the foreground and background colours separately.
- The source is here as well, in case you would like to see his
- technique. BEWARE: if you run KAMELEON.COM, it may subsequently
- interfere with keystrokes in other programs, and necessitate a
- reboot. Take precautions so that you will not lose files.
-
- NEWCOLR.INC
- This is the assembly subroutine sent in by Julian Bucknall of
- Hammersmith - a more elegant way to modify colours in a CGA
- display. See also KAMELEON, in this directory.