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PG-08: General Programming Tools and Info ARIS Version Tracking System 1.3 [AVTS13] Riedel, Alexander $30 #20286 [2 disks] (11-93 CD) is a control/configuration management system for software allowing you to keep track of the versions of source code modules and tracing the development of the program. Super Shareware System 1.0 PractiComp $65 #27874/4668 [2 disks] tracks customers, prospects, distributors, contacts, products, sales, and exenses for shareware authors. You can do targeted mailings to customers, prospects, and distributors, printing postcards or labels. There are 24 reports available, some including contact listings and directories, geographic summaries for customers and distributors, a balance sheet, payments due and income over a specified time period with subtotals by day, month, or year. You can import data in dBASE, Delimited, or SDF formats. --------------- 12345 Debugging Small Programs Disk --------------- DynaStrip (DSTRIP) Dynasoft $0 is a debugging information manager. It searches all subdirectories and processes any OBJ files that match the wildcard filespecs. It allows selective stripping of debugging information, thus resulting in linkable applications that support moderate debugging capabilities. I&C and IOPort 1.01 (IOPORT) Gramann, R. A. $22 I&C is a TSR debugger. Unlike Debug and CodeView, it can be used to debug TSR programs as they operate. At the press of a key, it allows memory inspection, memory modification, and instruction breakpoint with data collection. IOPort allows port input and output by pressing a hot-key. Memutils 1.1 (MEMUTIL) Shearer Cooper Computer Company $10 is a collection of utilities that can greatly assist in debugging and monitoring memory usage and memory problems in programs. USEMEM uses up a specified amount of memory, for checking how your program will run on macnines with less memory. FILLMEM fills memory with a specified value and then optionally runs your program. MEMTEST performs a byte-by-byte test of your standard DOS (640K) memory. WATCHMEM is a TSR that watches and remembers all requests for memory (allocation, modification, and release) as well as requests for execution and termination. Monitor Wissinger, Richard $25 is a programmer's debugging tool. When you press the hotkey, it will interrupt the current process in your machine, and display all the appropriate information about the interrupted process. You can now alter the state of MONITOR/386, such as entering new breakpoints, modifying memory, etc. SOS Engine 2.14a (SOSENG) Solid Oak Software $30 is a debugging tool which records low level application activity such as file accesses, reads, writes, memory allocation requests and more. It links into an application in Clipper, C, BASIC, TP, etc. SpyTrak 2.5 Korvin Communications Co. $30 is a TSR, disassembling and debugging tool. Disassembling is performed during the program's execution. It tracks each operation performed by the program step by step, recording status of registers, flags and instructions, unassembled into opcode. Trap Kolbeck, R. $0 is a useful tool for debugging interrupts and reverse engineering. It's also very helpful in detecting viruses and creating TSR-programs. With TRAP, you can trap every interrupt in your PC, even hardware interrupts like INT 08h, 09h or 1Ch. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12345 --------------------------------- ------------------------ 2180 General Programming Small Programs Disk ------------------------ 2180 Calculators ---------------- Bits 2 Roper, David $0 is a program for PC/Main-Frame developers. It does math calculations and can be used as a substitute for Math Tables. It does Logs, Trig, Base conversions and more. HDBcalc 1.0 Lynch, Jim $10 is a 16 bit programmer's calculator that lets you perform math and logical operations in Hex, Decimal and Binary notation. Unlike other calculators, the operands and the result are all displayed on the screen at the same time. This makes it possible to do "what if" type of calculations, in spreadsheet fashion. PopCalc 1.01 Microsystems Software Inc. $20 is a pop-up (6k) calculator that will evaluate complex expressions in binary, decimal and hex format. It also supports all C operators, plus Rotate. PopCalc will let you assign values to variables and evaluate equations. PopCalc locks up under DESQview. 2180 Help and Information ------------------------- Cvundo Rosenbloom, David $0 offers a couple of very useful and seemingly undocumented CodeView features. Game-Pgm Gellman, Robert $0 is an essay of the author's own views on the programming of games. Mr. Gellman has programmed several games and registered a number of others. This file contains his views on good and bad features in shareware and other games and some pointers on how to make a good, quality game with a reasonable price. LicAdd Unique Software ASP $15 is a set of programs primarily for shareware programmers: LICENSE 1.1 prompts the user for his name and address and prints a customized registration form. The user then only has to include a check, fold the form, add a stamp and mail. No envelopes are needed. ADDRESS is similar, except it lets registered users easily report a change of address. Rat 2.40 (RAT-EW) Wooten, Emery $5 is a 5k pop-up that displays the ASCII character set. Software Engineering Book List (BOOKS) Cohen, Richard $0 is a reading list that was originally developed in 1986 for a college course in structured analysis. It has since been revised and expanded a number of times to support a variety of courses, both college and industrial, in software engineering. These books should be of considerable interest to anyone developing business oriented information systems. UPD386 Norton, Daniel A. $0 is a summary that describes the differences between the instructions of the Intel 80286 and 80386 processors. It discusses the 32-bit register, the new addressing modes, debug registers, and paging. It also describes each new instruction, along with examples. It is primarily intended for programmers who are already familiar with the 80286 instruction set. 2180 Editors ------------ HexView 1.2 Daytris Information Systems $15 is a hexadecimal editor for the MS-DOS environment. It can be used to edit or view binary or ASCII files in a full screen hexadecimal format. HexIt Viscomi, Peter M. $8 will translate files into HEX format and optionally display them on the screen or print them. 2180 Sound Editors ------------------ Say Invalid (SAYINVA) Leithauser, David $5 can be called by your program to say "Attention. Invalid input. Please Redo." through the computer's speaker in a voice guaranteed to wake up your user (and everyone else in the office). Frankly, we prefer HAL's soothing "Sorry, Dave, I can't do that." (See disks 2388-2392 for Sound player and sound files.) Sound Effects Library (SFXLIB) Smith, Dave $0 allows you to include any of 17 different sounds in your programs. It features fires, explosions, bombs, tones, vibration and more. SoundFX 486 (SFX486) (08-93 CD) Smith, David $17 is a sound effects library for 486 Systems. There are 70 sounds included, plus a demo program which can play each of the sound effects. Sounds Good 2.0 (SOUNDSG) Leinecker, Richard C. $15 is a sound editor that creates files you can easily integrate into your programs through the use of a set of library routines. The sounds are interrupt driven and allow you to do other tasks in the foreground. BASIC and C examples are given. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2180 -------------------------------- -------------------------- 2181 General Pgm. Other #1 Small Programs Disk -------------------------- 21Help Kaye, Bob $? is sort of a poor man's Norton Guide describing each INT 21H function, the other DOS interrupts and the ROM BIOS interrupts. There is a small resident portion (2.2K) which reads three text files from disk and displays the selected information. Requires EGA/VGA. 386Bug This subroutine provides a quick indication of the function of the 32-bit MUL instruction in the Intel 80386. Alloc 1.4 Jones, Robert L. $0 is an ALLOC procedure that uses interrupts rather than externally linked OBJ files. AnsCrt Housh, Rick $0 Uses standard ANSI calls for all cursor placement, color attribute changes, etc., and Interrupt 21h DOS calls for everything else. It uses no ROM BIOS calls at all and should work on any MS-DOS computer with ANSI support. Exec (EXEC-TW) Wagner, Thomas $0 is the source code in several different languages to allow swapping of your program to EMS to free memory for other programs to run. Fadd Richwell, Gunner $15 will compute the values for all combinations of segment value, offset value and physical address. Filbuf Kyle, Jim $20 is a LIB module that will determine the number of FILES and BUFFERS configured in a system. BASIC and C examples are included. Flist 1.0 Portz, Frederick F. $0 will neatly format and list source code listings. FndEnv is a routine that finds the master Environment block for DOS. If it cannot find it, it passes back the local Environment block. Source code included. HiMem 2.06 Microsoft Corporation $0 defines the Extended Memory Specification (XMS) version 2.00 for MS-DOS. XMS allows DOS programs to utilize additional memory found in Intel's 80286 and 80386 based machines in a consistent, machine independent manner. LDiff .110 lets you create update files which can be distributed to your program users for updating their old program files. LDiff automatically compares your new EXE with the old EXE and creates a difference file. The difference file and a small LDiff utility can be given to users. The utility will automatically update their EXE files. This can be cheaper and easier than sending all-new files. Libra 1.01 Rose, Herb $20 provides a useful, easy interface to Microsoft's LIB program for managing object libraries. This is a programmer productivity tool. It shows all the modules in a library, the EXTERNAL and PUBLIC symbols referenced by each module, and the module size. In addition to the normal LIB operations of ADD, DELETE, EXTRACT, and REPLACE modules, you can perform a search for modules that reference particular symbols. All this is done with an easy to use, windowed user interface. NewProj Andersen, Anthony $0 automates the creation of OS/2 PM projects. It makes all files necessary to compile and run a program. It creates a main routine, window routine, and a dialog box routine. C, RC, DLG H, MAK, ICO, DEF, and LNK files are produced. Source is included. QMake Houston, Jerry $0 is an intermediate step between Sammy Mitchell's excellent editor QEdit and the MAKE.EXE utility that's supplied by many manufacturers. It will allow you to press a key while editing a program source file, and automatically invoke your MAKE utility with that current filename (minus its extension) as the argument for MAKE. Source code included. RunTime Memory 1.10 (RTMEM) Dunford, Christopher J. $0 lets you test-run programs within a specified amount of DOS memory. TexStat 2.1 Panther Associates $5 will keep track of your programming progress by counting all characters, words, lines, periods, commas, semicolons, 'C' and Pascal comments. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2181 -------------------------------- -------------------------- 2182 General Pgm. Other #2 Small Programs Disk -------------------------- Exe2Com 1.05 Dunford, Christopher J. $0 is a replacement for Exe2Bin. It offers an optional display of the EXE file's relocation table, which can help if you get the relocatable items error when converting EXE to COM. Includes C source. Easy Install 1.0B (EZINSTL) Scanlon Enterprises $10 automates the installation of your software. EDI Install for DOS 1.0 (EDI-DOS) Eschalon Development Inc. $45 is a complete customizable installation program. It has an attractive window interface and supports multiple disks of any size media. It also supports file compression. The executable installation program is less than 40K. PcFmt 1.3 Unique Software ASP $15 formats your Aspect Source Files, accounting for all block structures, giving you evenly indented statements which are easier to read. PcUser Blenman, Percival $0 are some miscellaneous user functions. Programmers Toolbox 1.0 (PGMTOOL) Silicon Systems $15 is a set of utilities that allow the programmer to analyze/edit files and/or memory in their base HEX form. DUMP, the file dump utility, displays files and memory in both HEX and ASCII formats and allows the user to save portions of the dump to a file. HEXEDIT, a Hexadecimal edit utility, allows the user to edit binary and ASCII files in a HEX mode. It uses basic editing features, ASCII/Binary Search, Scroll, Edit, etc. Quik-Install 1.6 (QUIKINS) Wester, Michael L. $15 is a small (8k) software installation program. Multi-disk installation is supported. It copies files or installs from EXE archives, checks available disk space, creates subdirectories, automatically executes applications after installation, and stores setup internally. ScrBin 1.1 Knox, Lewis $0 converts ASCII text to binary files that can be written directly to video memory. The advantages of this approach are that this is faster than the usual screen writing commands in languages like C, Pascal and BASIC, and that having help screens, menu screens, data entry screens, etc, stored in disk files keeps the size of your source code down, and that this allows you to design screens more easily with a full-screen editor rather than in your programming environment. ScrCount (SCRCONT) Civiol, Ollivier $5 is a memory resident program that provides screen addresses in hex and decimal for programmers. (res:8k) XmsTrix Roy, Don $0 contains assembler routines built around the Microsoft Extended Memory Specification (XMS), Version 2.0 for MS-DOS. At the minimum, you can add up to an extra 64K of executable code space for your programs. XRay 1.5 Kihlken, Tom $15 is a memory resident program (8k) which provides either a detailed report or a summary of exactly which DOS function calls, including a number of undocumented DOS calls, your program is making. You can use it to determine what other programs are doing or to help debug your own programs. Also included is a high resolution timer which helps detect I/O bound code which can bog down even your tightest assembler program. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2182 -------------------------------- -------------------------- 3881 General Pgm. Other #3 Small Programs Disk -------------------------- #3881 Graphics/Video -------------------- AnsiDemo Tramblay, Alain $0 displays a table of ANSI colors and associated codes. BGIANI 1.2 Thomas Design $0 is a 256 color mini-movie projector for VGA. It animates a four-frame VGA sequence via page flipping. The program should support all VGA cards that support 320x200 by 256. Designer's Friend 2.5 (DESIGNR) Information Management Systems, Inc. $15 is a 7.5K TSR that automates interface and screen design tasks. It includes functions to center strings in a field, count the characters in a string, read a string off the screen, write a string to the keystroke buffer, display an ASCII chart, and create bit masks. InfoBar 1.51 Maland, Philip $5 will show you the exact (X,Y) position of any point on the screen. It also displays the current color and ASCII character number under the cursor, and the video offset. InfoBar is very helpful for programming in many different languages. MCD 1.08 Burton, Michael ASP $15 helps programmers design graphic mouse cursors for their applications. Code for the cursor can be generated for most languages. RGB ColorMixer 1.5 (RBG15) Dutson, Adam $5 takes the guesswork out of using the red, green, and blue arguments of the setrgbpalette() function. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18193.) Screen (SCRN-JB) Battle, John O. $? is several subroutines for two-monitor systems. One clears the monochrome screen, one writes ASCII characters to the monochrome screen, another writes ASCIIZ characters and the last one writes hex values to the monochrome screen. Sprite Maker 2.04 (SPRITEM) Dalrymple, Billy $10 allows the EGA/VGA programmer to easily create, manipulate, and save EGA images for use with many block manipulation functions such as putimage, and moveblock. Sprites created can vary in size from 1*1 pixels to 100*60 pixels. #3881 Misc. ----------- CPrint 2.17 (CPRN_CS) Cactus Software $20 prints source code for most languages on LaserJets with comments highlighted. Source Application Manager (SAM2) Mogenot, Olivier $0 is a programming environment that can be used with different languages so that you do not have to deal with different interfaces/editors for each. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3881 -------------------------------- ---------------------------- 12346 General Pgm. Other #4 Small Programs Disk ---------------------------- Charts of Reference 1.1 (COREF) RaLin Enterprises $7 is a reference utility for programmers. Charts include eight different charts, ASCII text color codes, ANSI Esc codes, color attribute numbers, extended key codes, and character codes. Cx 1.03 Nelson, Eugene $45 is a data compression library for MS-DOS, Windows and OS/2. Cx includes examples for VB, C and Pascal examples; OBJ, DLL, MIX and TPU interfaces; and source. Merge (MERGEBG) Ghodsi, Bob $? helps you create large single files from multiple source files.. These files can later be used for general reference purposes or cut and paste jobs during application development. VI_Soft Vanderheiden, Gregg C. Ph.D. $0 is a discussion about developing software that is more accessible for visually impaired. Visual Compare 1.52 (VCOMP) Whitney, John R. ASP $33 is a file comparison utility. It is very fast, and the use of colors to differentiate the files' contents in a scrollable display makes it easy to see differences between files. Recommended in Dr. Dobb's Journal. Great for comparing program source files. WSP 1.50 (08-93 CD) Wada, Wakiti Koichi $? compares an old and updated file and creates a COM program which will make the changes to the user's old file. You can send the user just the COM file instead of a full set of new files. --------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #12346 --------------------------------- ------------------------------ 0232 Programming Aids, General Small Programs Disk ------------------------------ Baseres 3 L/G Computer Consultants $10 is a stay-resident program written in Turbo Pascal to satisfy the programmer's need (especially C language) for base conversion of numbers and characters. The conversions are displayed simultaneously for Ascii, Hex, Decimal, Binary and Octal. Calc (CALC-CD) Dunford, Christopher J. $0 is a calculator with many programmer-type functions, such as shift-left, shift-right, 2's comp., 1's comp., And, Or, Xor, Hex, Decimal, Octal, Binary. CMP Gersbach, Jack $? is a file comparison utility program that has the power to perceive added and deleted sections of a file as well as changes. HDiff 1.22 Dunford, Christopher J. $? a fast text file comparator for OS/2, intended for programmers' use in source and version control. Hybrid Btrieve Browser 1.0 (HBB) Graham, Micheal S. $33 is a TSR that will allow you to view Btrieve records in a user defined format. Ten different views can be defined with ten fields per view. The view screen can be scrolled four ways and data can be pasted into the keyboard buffer. Requires 512K, DOS 3.x or higher and Btrieve 4.10 or higher. Instant Install 1 SE (IINSTAL) Stein, Johnathan J. $100 allows you to create installation programs for your software. It supports ARC, LZH or ZIP. It can handle multiple diskettes with ID check, multiple destination directories, success messages, free space check, READ.ME viewer, and final DOS command for custom SETUP or to run installed software. Extract program is not needed if on target PC. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8954.) Keys 2.1 (KEYS21) displays the scan values and ascii values of keys when pressed. Make $? executes commands in a "makefile" to update one or more target files. If no "-f" option is present, "MAKEFILE" is used as the makefile. MemScan Martin, Charles F. ASP $0 is a TSR memory scanner. It lets you scan RAM during program execution or it can be called in an Assembly program. It also shows contents of registers. MovROM $? copies the BIOS to RAM, makes it resident, and repoints all BIOS interrupts to the copied code, thus allowing any debugger operations to be preformed. MOVROM must be executed before any resident utilities are installed because such utilities repoint BIOS interrupts to themselves. When MOVROM exits, it displays the segment where it copied the ROM code; the offsets are the same as in the original BIOS listing. Nifty James' Stack Checker 1.00 (NJSTACK) Blaszczak, Mike $10 is a set of .OBJ files which contain a redefined version of Microsoft's _chkstk routine. PCTrace $? implements a trace table for MS-DOS to allow you to see what DOS or BIOS functions a particular program uses. Programmer's Aid (PgmAid) Richmond, J. P. Jr. $10 is a resident utility that allows you to call up a table of ASCII characters at any time. Screen Image Editor 2.1d (SIE) Ramaekers, Frank Jr. $24 will assist programmers in creating menus and pop-up help screens for their programs and to make it easier to display screens in DOS batch files. Turbo Environment 2.21 (TURBO) Orme, Daniel $25 is an integrated development environment for your favorite assembler or compiler. It has most of the features found in Turbo Pascal's IDE such as an editor, the ability to edit two files at once; shell to DOS; pull-down menus; same key strokes as Turbo Pascal; and a configuration file. Other features include on-line help, box shadowing, and 43/50-line support for EGA/VGA. Xray (XRAY-JF) Ferguson, John F. $? allows you to monitor areas of your computer's memory while other programs are running. These other programs can be COMMAND.COM, for those interested in some aspect of that program; your own resident programs; or some .COM or .EXE application. XRAY gives you, on a real-time basis, the ability to watch memory variables or your stack change dynamically. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0232 -------------------------------- ------------------------------ 0661 Programming Info, General Small Programs Disk ------------------------------ 87Error Scott, Leland C. $0 is a simple 8087 error interrupt handler. When an error interrupt is generated by the 8087 a letter in reverse video will appear in the upper right hand corner of the monochrome display. The letter will indicate the general type of error which caused the 8087 to generate an interrupt. ASCII 1.2 (ASCIIJP) Piepers, John $0 displays the ASCII table in hex, octal, decimal and binary. It is not a TSR. BIOS13 Martin, Charley $0 is a discussion of poorly documented quirks of the BIOS diskette services. Cipher is an encryption program. Compaq-G COMPAQ Computer Corporation $? this document describes how to write an external printer driver to be used with the COMPAQ written GRAPHICS utility supplied with COMPAQ DOS 3.0 or later. A sample printer driver is also included, it is intended as an example of how to implement a simple print screen driver and as a starting point if a more enhanced version is desired. DEBUG7 $? is a tutorial made to present an overview of the DEBUG.COM program for the PC FortXref (FORTXRF) $? Fortran variable cross reference. Header Yoshizaki, Haruyasu $0 describes the header format for the new version (and likely for future versions) of LHArc. How To Copyright Software 92 (COPR) Locus Incorporated $13 contains a discussion of copyright law and step-by-step instructions from a programmer/attorney on how to apply for a Certificate of Copyright Registration of computer software and documentation. IntProt Dunford, Christopher J. $0 descibes IBM's not-well-known protocol for interrupt sharing. Intervue 1.1 (INTRVUE) Hackensack $0 is a viewer for the Interrupt List on MegaDisk set #27613. Opcode is a text file that contains Opcode tables through 80386. Pinnacle Help 1.01 (PHELP) Pinnacle Help $75 will help you package your shareware with a slick, professional appearance. It provides all of the reference material a first time user needs, along with a file lister, information about registration, and more. Profiler (PROFILR) $? is a system of programs used to list where your code is spending its time. As an example, to run the system: run PROFILE CHKDSK.COM (a copy of which must be in your current dir). The batch file profile.bat will copy CHKDSK.COM to SUBJECT.COM, analyze where subject.com is spending time and list this for you. Subject.com will be deleted upon completion. Showkey Felt, Dave $? display ASCII and hex codes for a key. TSR.TXT Vitt, Mark $0 is a discussion of new interrupts that should be hooked in order to create stable TSRs. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0661 -------------------------------- At Ease With Computer Programming 1.4 Synfonics ASP $54 #27641/4027 [6 disks] is a programming tutor designed to make you think like a computer. It covers Creative Problem Solving, Writing Solutions, and Translating Into Code. This lesson is also divided into five sub-courses including Thinking, Defining, Modeling, Formulating, and Computing. It teaches you how to analyze problems and write solutions. Requires 512K and CGA, EGA, or VGA. BloodHound Fencel, Richard $50 #1307 is an interesting, unique, program debugging tool. It works by loading and running your program and recording all the keystrokes that you wish to enter as part of the normal execution of your program. It then saves the resulting screens. Normally, you would do this after your program is running the way it should, but you want to make modifications to it. Programmers know all too well how modifications in one area of a program almost always cause unforeseen changes in other areas. So after you have made modifications to your program, Bloodhound will replay the keystrokes and compare the resulting screens to the previous `known good run' and report any differences. Not only does Bloodhound serve as an automated and very thorough Beta Tester, but it will let you stop the program just prior to any crash points and single step ahead, examining registers and variables. The keystroke storage files also serve as a log of the exact sequence of events leading up to the crash. Bloodhound is not a TSR, but it does load itself into memory before loading your program to run, and it takes up about 118k of RAM. But unless you have very limited RAM, that should not be a problem. The 118k is released as soon as your program quits running. The only minor problem we had was from shelling to DOS in our program, which made Bloodhound abort on during screen recording. This should not affect most programs. Every serious programmer should try Bloodhound. We were very favorably impressed. BTFiler Access Microsystems Inc. $29 #27733/4028 is a Btrieve file recovery, viewing, editing, search and delete utility. You can can also clone or pack a Btrieve file; import and export records in ASCII files; create a file from a BTrieve Build file; list file statistics; and build lists of Btrieve error codes numerically and operation codes alphabetically. A page size calculator is included. Also included on this disk is BTViewer ($83), a powerful menu driven Query/Edit tool for Btrieve files. It features file maintenance functions, batch modify options, calculated field support, summary report screens, and much more. BTR Help Informative Technologies ASP $44 #27733/2971 is a tool for use in the design, development, and maintenance of Btrieve applications. It will rebuild damaged Btrieve files, test file integrity, browse, delete and add records, edit records in Hex or ASCII, list Btrieve operations and errors, clone Btrieve files, display file statistics and more. Anyone who has struggled with Novell/Softcraft's user-unfriendly Btrieve utilities will be delighted at the ease of use of BTR Help. BTR Watch Informative Technologies ASP $33 #27733/3757 is a memory resident Btrieve debugger. It logs calls to Btrieve, recording time, date, file name, operation, duration, and result of each access. It will log all calls or just when specified status codes occur. It will optionally signal you with a beep when a bad status code occurs. Beta Test Program 2.7 MyLife Software ASP $24 #4868 helps software authors develop a beta test program. Suggestions and examples are provided for an effective beta tester. A beta test bug report generator is provided for easy isolation of troublesome bugs in beta software. Data File Debugger Gilmore Systems $20-$40 #1468 is a unique and powerful data file and database debugging tool. It allows you to interactively display, dump, modify, zap, and fill data elements in the data file or database by the same variable names that describe the record layout in your source code. DFD converts the numbers you type into their proper internal representation, and converts their internal representation to ASCII strings before displaying or dumping. DFD lets you translate data to and from different language formats, including Computer Innovations C86, Microsoft Pascal, Borland's Turbo Pascal, Borland's Turbo C, and Microsoft C. Demo II Examples & Utils Jameson, Charles Jameson and Silver Tongue Software $0 #2364 is a set of examples and utilities created with Dan Bricklin's Demo II program. They show some fairly complicated effects that a newcomer to Demo II might not think of or might not know how to create. Demo II owners can study the files and duplicate the effects in their own files. DFDdraw McDonnell Douglas Corporation $0 #3321 is a graphics package for creating data flow diagrams. It is easy to use and supports a wide variety of printers and plotters. Digitized Voice Programmer's Toolkit Farpoint Software $50 #27239/1885 [2 disks] is a voice-digitizing utility for programmers. It involves a combination of software and hardware with which programmers may create digitized voice recordings, store them on disk, edit the voice data files, and incorporate digitized voice playback into their own high-level language programs. The recording of digitized voice requires a small, inexpensive hardware device to be built. Schematics and printed circuit board layout files are provided for this device. Playback of the digitized voice, however, requires no special hardware except for a 286/386. Realistically, a hard disk is required to hold the unarchived files in this set, which total over 1.5 meg. DOSRef Williams, Dave $20 #1759 is intended to replace the various expensive references needed to program for the DOS environment. It is a programmer's reference to complete register-level information on all documented and most undocumented DOS and BIOS calls. This program was formerly called DOSMan. Dynagen MyndTryx $72-$82 #3758 will generate 27 different types of data in ASCII, dBASE, FoxPro, Paradox and other file formats for testing your software. EasyCase Evergreen CASE Tools $100 #27245/1818 is a CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tool. EasyCASE is intended to simplify the generation of data flow diagrams, transformation graphs, state transition diagrams, structure charts and entity relationship diagrams. A chart can have up to 256 connections, flows or transitions and up to 20 text blocks. Support is included for HP7550 and HP7475 plotters, for Jackson Data Structure Diagrams, for monographics cards and for EGA/VGA cards connected to mono monitors, and more. Requires EGA/VGA, MS mouse, 286/386, 512k. Easy Chart Pavitron Computer Group $45-$60 #27245/1477 is a tool for drawing system flow and hierarchical charts. It uses line drawing characters and other characters in the IBM extended ASCII set to draw lines and boxes. It will automatically draw four different flow-charting symbols to any size you specify: a box, a "list" figure, a "file" figure, and a decision box. The diamond-shaped decision box is the roughest of the figures because it uses the `< > /\' characters, which do not form smooth lines. NSChart Siltronix $35 #27245/2540 generates Nassi-Shneiderman structured flowcharts from a Program Design Language (NSPDL). Translators are available which convert existing code (C, Pascal, FORTRAN, etc.) into NSPDL. The chart can be printed or viewed on screen. Flowcharter #27245/758 is designed to provide a method of displaying complex procedures or events in a graphical manner using standard symbols which are easy to understand. The most common use of flowcharts is in the design of complex computer programs. These flowcharts show the basic design of the program independent of the computer language in which they will later be written. In this way, other programmers can translate the design into the actual program using the flowcharts. PC-Flow Makoski, Dave $0 #27245/1229 is a program designed specifically for the creation of flowcharts. It comes complete with nine commonly used templates representing tapes, disks, printed output, work blocks, decision diamonds, and more. These are displayed on the side of the screen and chosen by moving an ìèarrow with the cursor keys or mouse. Text and connection lines can be added. The final result can be printed on an Epson compatible printer. CGA-compatible graphics adapter is required. Only a single screen can be edited and printed at one time, so large flowcharts would have to be divided into parts and the printed results taped together. One screen will hold a maximum of 25 flowchart elements. Finishing Touch 2.4 ImagiSOFT, Inc. ASP $73 #27850/4571 is a simple software installation program that reduces the amount of space required on disks by 50 to 75 percent. It tests a user's hardware to make sure that it can handle your software. First Impression 2.6 [IMPRESS] Lincoln Beach Software ASP $60 #27850/4197 (11-93 CD) is a toolkit for creating an easy to use installation program. Features include the ability to check for drive availability and free disk space, to add a subdirectory to the PATH, print documentation, code user's name into the program, use compressed files, update the CONFIG.SYS file, and more. PowerInstall 1.4 Ataras Engineering ASP $29 #27850/4198 is a software installation utility. You provide instructions in a text file and it creates an .EXE file to do the installation accordingly. Among the many commands you may put in the script file are the abilities to read from and write to windows, read keystrokes and mouse clicks, execute COM/EXE/BAT files with or without the user seeing it, view files, copy and delete files, verify paths, make and change directories, use variables and line labels, use IF statements, and more. Exec 3.3A [EXEC] Wagner, Thomas $0 #12464 (09-93 CD) contains source code in several different languages to allow swapping of your program to EMS to free memory for other programs to run. Features include XMS support, the ability to process BAT files and handle redirection, and many error codes. FileXRef ConVal Software, Inc. ASP $27 #3249 will scan all your application source and ASCII documentation files, producing cross reference report files, or data files. It can process all text files and has special processing logic for supporting the syntax of the following file types: BAS, BAT, C, H, CPP, HPP, COB, DOC, PRG, FOR, ASM, MAK, PAS, PLI, PRG, REX, SQL, INP, and TXT. All other types are scanned as if they were ASCII text files. GFNT KYPP production $39 #4276 is a graphic editor for creating sprites for animation for VGA. Several sample files are included. Requires 512K memory and VGA. Grafix Albrecht, Joseph A. $0 #1595 provides programmers support for the Tandy 1000's 320x200x16-color graphics mode and Texas Instruments SN76496 sound chip. Graphics functions provided include point plotting, line and circle drawing, draw and box filling routines, graphics text and cursor support, store and transfer graphics images, painting, noise, and sound generation. Help Development Kit 9.0 [HDK90A, HDK90B] Loewy, Ron $40 #12460 (11-93 CD) creates help files for the Windows Help engine, DESQview/X, QuickHelp, THelp, TVHC, and PopHelp. This is a blessing for those unwilling to tackle the complexities of the Windows RTF formatting. It is a must-have for programmers working in multiple platforms. Input files are easily created with a text editor and a few simple commands. The only major drawback at this time is that font colors and sizes are not selectable in this version. The author says: "next month". Also included is [IL2HDK] 2.1 which converts Ralf Brown's interrupt list to the Help Development Kit's HDF format. HelpPC Jurgens, David $25 #1787 is a collection of public domain technical articles, lists and excerpts from several common reference manuals all organized in a single database. The help topics include BIOS interrupts, DOS interrupts, BIOS data areas, DOS data structures, and Standard C functions. The main program is a quick reference utility which allows viewing of the help database from the DOS command line. You'll find the screen displays are brief and to the point. This program is designed for the PC programmer who knows what he's doing, but just can't remember the syntax, or parameters to some little used BIOS interrupt, DOS data structure or C function. Over 900 technical topics have been covered. Other features include a file indexer, partial pattern matching for topic searches, a TSR version, hypertext linking, and more. Misc. Programming Tools Vic Williams $0 #3537 is a set of programmer's tools. Make is a program that will maintain, update, and reconstruct groups of programs and other software. Build makes conventional makefiles with a variety of options. To_ovl converts conventional Borland/Microsoft make linker files to Blinker/Plink overlay script files. SerNo helps add and read serial number information at the bottom of EXE and COM files. LS lists files with a variety of options. MSDOS Interrupt List 3.6 Brown, Ralf $0 #27613/3941 [3 disks] (10-93 CD) is a comprehensive listing of functions available through interrupt calls, both documented and undocumented. Nice-N-EZ Digital Manufacturing Systems $20 #27732/3665 is a program development environment for use with programming language. You can include your own help information from which you may copy and transfer text, such as programming examples, into your own program. The usual editing functions are provided as well as powerful block operations, a clipboard to store deleted or copied text, automatic indentation, keystroke macros, various programming aids. mouse support, the ability to edit up to five modules at one time and more. Requires 512K. Programmer's Integrated Environment twentysomething Software $10 #27732/3180 provides an interface for most programming languages. It allows you to edit, compile, link, test, and debug a program using a basic menu. Requires 512K and a hard disk. SCDraw McDonnell Douglas Corporation $0 #27732/3320 is a powerful, PC-based systems development tool for analyst and programmers. It allows you to build and maintain structure charts and data structure diagrams. You can improve your productivity by providing a sound blueprint of how program components fit together as you build your structure chart. SPA:WN - $50 #27732/692 is a programming environment. To help you get started, the disk also contains a tutorial for people unfamiliar with the concepts of structured programming and hierarchical top-down design. According to the author "SPA:WN is the only pan-lingual (i.e. adaptable to any target language) Warnier diagram based structured program development tool." Turbo Template KrikWare $15 #27732/3121 helps in the design of software and forces you to write code with better structuring. You start with an outline from which the program generates a skeletal version of your program. From there, you can flesh out your program. Works with C, Pascal, and BASIC. OVL Devore, Michael E. ASP $75 #1657 is a set of overlay managers, a linkable and a stand-alone version. OVL loads overlays from disk at the appropriate time and jumps program execution to the overlay code. OVL has only been tested with MASM, Turbo C, and QuickBASIC 4.00, but it is probable that OVL will work with all languages that compile to Microsoft Overlay LINKable object modules and which perform direct calls to routines in the program code. The system now works with Clipper, BASCOM and other languages. Bled Goosens, Ken $0 #565 allows different people to make changes to a text file that they jointly maintain. The typical use of BLED is for producing modifications to source code for programs. Interactive Microsoft BASIC has long had a MERGE command which functions like BLED. It inserts, deletes, and replaces lines based on line numbers. Other public domain programs would compare two BASIC programs and produce a merge file to convert one to the other using the merge command. BLED is a generalized program that combines these two functions and works for all languages, not just BASIC. A command line option lets you remove comments from code. The maximum number of metavariables is 99. The program supports metacommands with file includes, conditional logic, and in-line blocks. Patch #893 will take a patch file containing any of the three forms of difference listing produced by the diff program and apply those differences to an original file, producing a patched version. Primarily intended for when several different people are working on the same programming project. UNIX is required. Software Change Control Erickson, Walter $20-$129 #3326 compares two files and generates various reports that display any or all change differences. It records who, why, when, and where changes were made, maintaining a complete history of all changes. It can help eliminate undetected programming errors, and track coding progress on software projects. SYSTRAK Plossl, Keith R. $? #1415 tracks revisions to source code files within multiple program systems. PC-Tags Moderne Software $38-$73 #2025 is a DOS and OS/2 source-code retrieval system that will locate and retrieve a function or procedure definition from a text file written in C, Pascal, BASIC, dBASE, Assembly, Modula-2 or any other language (including English). After locating the source file, PC-TAGS will load it into your editor and place the cursor at the retrieved function or procedure's beginning. Also included on this disk is: PCTUtil Ramsey, H. Rudy $0 is a set of utilities for use with PC-TAGS, above. C source code is included. PGL Toolkit Norton, JoAnne W. $95 #4280 is a printer graphics library with over 80 functions. Features include unlimited virtual drawing resolution up to 32k by 32k and 256 colors, support for 28+ compiler versions and six programming languages, and support for most popular printers. It produces high resolution printouts utilizing as little as 8K of memory. Full support is provided for printing through a parallel or serial port interface, and seven fully scalable stroked font sets are included. No royalties are required for use in your apps. MakeDemo Windham Woods Publishing $49 #27241/1925 is a text-based demo maker designed to make it easy to create a demo of your program by capturing and editing screens and by creating new screens with the built-in screen designer. With the latter, you can make boxes, change colors, simulate menus and windows, and insert information. Also included is the runtime program "ShowDemo", that lets you view your works of art exactly as the end user might see them. Additional features include mouse support, and the ability to create interactive menus and to create and brand presentations and put them into single EXE files. PC-Demo #27241/1005 is for mocking up demos of programs. The purpose of the program is to make up slide shows that will demonstrate software. PC-Demo comes with a screen editor and utilities for capturing screens from other programs. It claims to be better than Dan Bricklin's Demo program. Prototype Martin, Ray $25-$50 #27241/1568 [2 disks] is a demo building program for developers who have a program that they want to demonstrate. Programmer's Productivity Pack Falk, Bob ASP $79 #27285/2646 [2 disks] is a software package designed to provide the utilities and reference tools most frequently needed by programmers. Previous versions were retail-only. Included is a calculator that works simultaneously in decimal, binary, hexadecimal, and octal. Other features include an ASCII & Color Attribute Chart, keystroke reference center, keystroke recording and playback, screen capture with filtering, background printing, a pop-up DOS shell, and more. These programming tools can run stand-alone or as pop-ups. Support isprovided for dual monitor systems. A hard disk is recommended. ProLite Falk Data Systems ASP $22 #27285/3026 is a subset of the larger Programmer's Productivity Pak. It includes productivity tools for programmers, a programmer's calculator, keystroke reference center, ASCII and color attribute chart, and pop-up DOS shell. It uses swapping technology to free all but 7K of DOS memory when resident. It can also be loaded as a stand-alone, DESQview-aware program, or as a normal memory-resident program without swapping. QwikMath Olsen, J. W. $25 #2444 is a comprehensive programmer's calculator. It offers a complete range of arithmetic and bitwise operators, the ability to perform calculations in 32-bit, 16-bit, and 8-bit values, a 16-level undo feature, a what-if session without losing the results of prior operations, ability to freely combine and move between all conditions provided at any time, context-sensitive help, and stand-alone or memory resident. Values may be entered in binary, octal, decimal or hexadecimal, with results always displayed in all radices, as well as their ASCII or extended scan code equivalents, where applicable. Renamer ConVal Software, Inc. ASP $42 #3760 renames file and symbol references in your source files. This can be used to rename certain variables for purposes of standardizing or exporting code. Supports BASIC, BAT files, C, C++, COBOL, FORTRAN, MASM, Oracle, Pascal, PL/I, REXX, SQL and xBASE. ScreenWorld Civit, Jose Olive $35 #3027 is a screen designer and source code generator. Boxes, lines, colors, areas, etc. draw in elastic form. You can include colors in the screens and in the generated programs; draw lines and boxes with automatic connection lines; insert text and generate the source code in ANSI and BASIC. This is a very well done program with numerous features not found in most other similar programs, such as the ability to create input fields with associated variable names. StanKit 4.07 Liachev, Stanislav G. $102 #12174 is a software installation utility. Features include compression, copyright text display, copy protection, installation password, colors, sound effects, and more. Super-Maint EmmaSoft ASP $55 #27396/2736 [2 disks] is a program development maker with an editor and help facility. Many sophisticated features are provided for building programs from source code kept on many drives and directories. Features include support for three memory models, three languages at a time plus a linker and librarian, Mouse support, and more. Support is also included for MIX compilers (Power C and the Mix assembler), Clipper, and Aztec Manx C. Tesseract TesSeRact Development Team ASP $25 #1390 is a library of routines for developing ram-resident programs and a proposed standard for ram-resident (``TSR'') program communication. The libraries and modules allow developers to write programs with TSR capability with little or no knowledge of TSRs. Among the features provided are easy use of hotkeys, simple Ram-Resident routines, co-resident functions, and cross-routine communication facilities. These routines been tested with Turbo C 1.5, Turbo Pascal 4.0 and 5.0, Microsoft C 5.0 and 5.1, Microsoft's Macro Assembler 5.0 and 5.1, and OPTASM 1.0. TrackIt Clear Software $29 #3670 uses a point and shoot environment to build libraries instead of typing lengthy DOS command lines. Libraries can be built in seconds. Versatil 1.11 Glaze, Michael M. $20 #4572 is a set of programmer's utilities in a pop-up 5K TSR. Utilities include an ASCII chart, box drawing, color attribute, date converter, number converter, scan codes, and a screen mask. Virtual Reality Tools 1.0 [VTOOLS] Denis Sureau $33 #12554 (10-93 CD) is a set of utilities to create sceneries and animations of programs of the future. The current version contains sprite editors, automaton assembler, mathematical tree designer, and other tools to facilitate the job of programmers. ]]]]]