home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
ftp.whtech.com
/
ftp.whtech.com.tar
/
ftp.whtech.com
/
articles
/
Sughrue
/
newage05
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
2006-10-19
|
7KB
|
214 lines
.IF DSK3.C3
.CE 6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
^W-AGE/99 * NEW-AGE/
^99 *NEW-AGE/99* N
^EW-AGE/99 * NEW-AGE
^/99 *NEW-AGE/99*
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
^^^^^^^^^^*by JACK SUGHRUE, Box
459, East Douglas, MA 01516*
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^#5
Anyone in the TIworld owning a
disk system longer than a month who
has not contacted Jim Peterson at
TIGERCUB Software is leading a
deprived life.
Jim has the largest collection of
stuff at the cheapest prices possible
for our amazing 4A. He couples this
"best for the least" business with a
fantastic knowledge of the machine
and a kind, generous spirit. No one
knows the BASIC and XB workings of
the TI better than Jim. He is an
expert in everything!
Mr.^TI, as he is known by his
thousands of admirers, seems to take
to his computer the way Jean Henri
Fabre took to ants. He is meticulous
and creative and understands the soul
of the 4A. I'm still in awe of his
skills and dedication and influence.
There is no one in the entire TI
World (unless he or she has been
hiding under a rock since the 70s and
has just been handed a machine) who
has not felt the influence of the
mild-mannered, modest man.
I've disembled hundreds of
programs with his fingerprints on
them: programming tools he has given
to us. For years Jim provided
newsletters with free tutorials
called "TIPS FROM THE TIGERCUB" which
were (and are) so jampacked with
wonderful programming goodies that it
is hard to imagine what TI life would
have been without this marvelous
source. In addition, he still sends
"CARE" disks to sharing newsletter
editors, along with numerous other
goodies. He has also written the
ultimate tutorial on programming in
the form of subprograms that can be
easily merged into any XB program
(including a subprogram that makes
BASIC programs into XB programs).
These loaded disks of subprograms
(called NUTS && BOLTS) can be
purchased from him and readily used
with your own or other programs.
These Tigercub touches are what I see
on almost every good XB program
written for the TI in the past half
decade."
Jim has also written so many
programs for the Public Domain that
we just take for granted that these
kinds of programs have "always been
there." They weren't. Until Jim gave
them to us. There isn't a user group
library in the world that doesn't
have heaps of programs from Mr.^TI.
He also wrote numerous
"commercial" pieces of software.
"Commercial" only in the sense that
they were for sale. They were
low-priced and high quality in the
heydays of the 4A when everything was
high-priced and too often of
extremely poor quality. Years later,
I still use a large number of his
programs in school (ANTONYMY,
SYNONYMY, MECHANICAL APTITUDE TEST,
SCRAMBLE, SQUINCH (a fiendish word
game), and many others). I wouldn't
like to be without the other utility
and game programs that I've enjoyed
so much from Tigercub over the years
(particularly the unendingly
fascinating NUTS && BOLTS disks,
which I had the honor of demo-ing
(Jim wrote the remarkable demo
programs) at a recent computer fair.
[I had the greater honor of meeting
Jim at a fair in Lima, Ohio.]
The man's remarkable and is
universally liked (which is
remarkable unto itself).
[Jim's three NUTS && BOLTS disks
(with a wonderfully descriptive
manual/tutorial) are now only $10
each. His five disks full of "TIPS
FROM THE TIGERCUB", a newsletter
editor's Godsend, are only $5 each.
His 120 original programs (a
refundable $1 for the catalog) are
now just $1 each!]
Praising Jim's efforts on our
behalf is not the purpose of this
article. (It's just impossible to
write about Tigercub without doing
so.) The purpose of this article is
to tell you about the latest goodies
to come out of Tigercub. Jim,
because of his huge number of TI
contacts (without a doubt more than
anyone else in the world), has been
able to put together the largest
collection of Public Domain and
Fairware programs, files, and
templates in existence.
This PD extavaganza can be dipped
into by sending a refundable dollar
for this catalog. ($2 for both the
Tigercub and TI-PD catalogs.) Within
is an unbelievable world of goodies.
A 4A maniac's paradise! At only $1.50
per disk! Not per program. Per FULL
disk! And that's postpaid!
These disks do not contain a pile
of junk you'll never use, either.
They are selected from the thousands
Jim has in his library. And they are
catalogued and sub-catalogued and
regrouped.
An example:
Interested in music? Those are
the 600 series. What kind of music?
Well, remember those great
graphic/music combos of Sam Moore?
600 is a disk called "SAM MOORE MUSIC
#1" (341 sectors). It has 11 super
selections on it. But there is also
a "SAM MOORE MUSIC #2" (343) and a 3
(348) and a 4 (337) before #604 moves
in "BILL KNECHT HYMNS" (334) and so
on.
You get the picture. You get a
disk full of the kind of things you
want and can use: educational
programs, graphics, printer
utilities, typing, health, you name
it. Games are broken down into so
many categories it's amazing. There
are three full disks of card games,
alone.
All the programs now run in XB
and all come with the famous Tigercub
Loader, the forerunner of all the
good loader programs found elsewhere.
Jim even has games broken down by
specific type: "ROAD CROSSING GAMES",
KEYBOARD MANEUVERING GAMES", "Q*BERT
GAMES", "FORMER COMMERCIAL GAMES",
"EASY GAMES FOR KIDS", "KING KONG
TYPE GAMES", "TWO-PLAYER JOYSTICK
GAMES" (there are loads of
one-player), "GERMAN GAMES", and on
an on, page after page.
There's even such esoteric stuff
as "LIGHT PEN PROGRAMS (including a
disk file which teaches you how to
make your own light pen).
There are disks of programs about
Chemistry; Hi-res Drawing; Physics;
Children's Programming with Speech;
Sorts, Scrambles && Searches;
Auto-loaders; Calculators &&
Converters; Astronomy, Religious
Programs. The list seems endless.
The catalog gives you the full
listings of the files on the disk:
"FINANCIAL PROGRAMS" (356 sectors)
includes the following selections
with authors where known:
Amortization Schedule (M Holgers);
and #2 (J Roche); Compound Interest
(C Good); Estate Tax Securities (R
Shumaker); Debt Calculator (K
Romstedt); Financial Math (C
Ehninger); Financial Statemnt Ratio
Analysis (C Colton); Investment
Analysis (A Robertson) and 15 more.
Just the work and time involved
in the collecting , reviewing,
selecting, debugging, sorting,
creating full disks, cataloguing,
printing, and distributing must be
incredible. To charge $1.50 a disk
is the greatest TI giveaway of all
times.
Order the catalogs today; then,
after you wipe the drool off the
table, order as much as you can to
show Mr.^TI how much you support his
endeavors. TIGERCUB Software, 156
Collingwood Ave., Columbus, OH 43213.
[If you use NEW-AGE/99 please put
me on your exchange list.]
ÇçǼçïÉòƒ⌐╒╒╒╒╒╒╒╒╒╒Çïáááááááááááááááááááááá