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U2-07: Video Utilities ------------------ 0542 EGA Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------ 542 Colors ---------- EGAchg is a program which provides a means to preset 12 palette color combinations for EGACLR.COM a companion program which Controls the seventeen palette registers on the Enhanced Graphics Adapter, 12 different user selected color combinations of any 16 of the 64 colors available can be made active by use of the Alt key at the same time as any of the number keys 1 to = at the top of the keyboard. Nansi 3.0 Kegel, Daniel $0-$10 is an enhanced ANSI console driver. It has several advantages over ANSI.SYS (the driver supplied with DOS). It supports escape sequences, provides faster output under certain conditions, and supports the 43/50-line screens in EGA/VGA, and 132-column displays. PALS Nemec, Larry $? is a utility program allowing an easy selection of the palette color values for the EGA. There is a fair number of similar programs available; most of them require color numbers to be associated with each palette. I found it rather difficult to associate 64 values with the corresponding colors. So, after Mark Horvatich made his NEWFNT.COM system available [also on this disk] in its last version (8-12-86), I decided to take advantage of the easy access to resident palette array available through it." Palet 2 Lazo, Charles III and Worley, Tim $0 lets you select colors for the EGA that can't be changed by other programs. (res:1k) 0542 EGA Fonts -------------- EGAROM McCrossen, Bob $0 allows you to change the default text mode character font. QB source code and 22 fonts are included. Requires EGA/VGA. FB8x14b is another font to be used on an EGA. It will utilitize the save area provided by NEWFONT, which is on the EGA Utilities disk. Font1 is a screen font for monochrome monitors on EGA cards. Font32 is a new font for EGA systems. It is easier to read than IBM's Serif font and not as thin as the font in Mark Horvatiche's NEWFONT set. NewFont will provide owners of most EGA systems a new set of text fonts in both 25 and 43 line modes. In addition, they make it a simple task to switch between the ROM-based 8x14 font and the two new fonts. Included with the NEWFONT system are alternate font-switching programs to use with the NANSI.SYS console driver. Two programs are included that will allow the NEWFONT system to be used with MARK/RELEASE, and with 'EGA-dumb' programs like Microsoft's CodeView. 0542 Other EGA -------------- Dissolve (aka: MELT) is a screen clearing utility for the EGA. You can probably surmise how it goes about the job from the names. Ega2Ram 1.10 Roelofs, Greg $0 copies the BIOS code from slow ROM to fast RAM. Since most EGA cards are designed to fit the least common denominator, i.e. 8-bit PC and XT slots, one can achieve remarkable improvements in performance on (16-bit) AT and (32-bit) 386 machines. Assembler source code is included. EGAnorm Henningsgard, Rob $? resets an EGA monitor to its normal configuration after some program has left it otherwise. Enhgr M&H Consulting converts 640x350 EGA graphics to 640x480 if you have a high-resolution EGA like the Vega Deluxe or the EVA/480 and an autosync monitor like the NEC or Sony. Pick 1.2 (PICKLIN) Tosa, Y. $0 lets you select the number of lines you want for your EGA or VGA display. Some programs, such as the file viewer, LIST, will support whatever number of lines your video will allow; other programs will not. DOS support only 25-line screens unless you use ANSI.SYS. Ram4Ega 1.00 DLF Solutions! $0 is a device driver that will relocate EGA ROM at Address C000:0000 to RAM, and fix up the vector table to point to the "Shadow RAM". This will be of benefit to 16 and 32 bit machines (80286/80386) that are slowed by 8 bit access to the EGA Video Adapter Card. SetVid is a resident program used to force the EGA into 4 color graphics mode. it is activated by hitting the ALT key and the right hand SHIFT key at the same time. ST12 is a smooth scroller for the EGA. Use it to read through a file and you can adjust the speed of the scroll or stop it momentarily. With DOS piping, it can also be used to scroll through a directory: DIR ST12. Underln Wallengren, Ernie $? lets you display underlined text on a EGA (or compatible) system. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0542 -------------------------------- ------------------ 2851 VGA Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------ 0x10 Klos, William $0 lets you toggle your color VGA system between color and shades of gray, as well as a blinking or non-blinking cursor. CGA2VGA Gozum, Lawrence and Marvin $? lets you capture CGA graphic screens and translate them into VGA and MCGA screens in MCGA 256 color mode and save the screen in Bloadable format. Once saved you can edit your old pictures and increase their color range with your favorite paint or CAD program. (res:65k) Color 1.02 (COLR-ET) Tauck, Eric $10 lets you set the text mode colors to any of the 356K possible colors on a VGA system. It allows the 16 text colors and the border color to be edited and saved. Up to nine color sets can be saved in a single file, and they can be loaded from the DOS command line. A TSR option is available that will install a color set automatically whenever the video adapter switches to a text mode. HiBack 1.1 Huras, D. $5 uses a little-known feature of VGA cards to disable foreground text blinking and, instead, enable high-intensity background colors. (The two are mutually exclusive.) Since blinking text is usually very annoying and high-intensity background colors are a pleasant alternative, this is a very worthwhile utility. This is not a TSR, so it uses no memory. HSI lets you experiment and see the various hues and colors available on the VGA. Not earth-shattering, but if you have a VGA and were going to get this disk anyway. QCRT 2.1 Smith, Glenn K. $5 speeds up text processing of video cards. It supports the extended text modes of super VGA cards. Setv 1.2 Eyer, Bob $0 enables Multisync or normal VGA video equipment to make use of five major video text modes. Smode lets you use an EGA in a 43-line mode or a VGA in a 50-line mode. Assembler source code is included. The Universal VESA TSR (UNIVESA) Bennett, Kendall $0 extends the video BIOS routines of superVGA video cards to make them VESA compatible. Requires a 386 or better. VGAchall purports to test the degree of register level compatibility between an IBM PS/2 VGA card and another brand VGA card. VGA Gray-Scale (VGA-GS) Taylor, Scott $0 turns the VGA Gray-Scale Summing off, to make a color VGA simulate a B&W VGA. C and ASM source code included. VGARam 1.0 Warthen, Brett $20 lets you convert up to 96K of RAM on your VGA (and many EGAs) video adapter into usable DOS RAM. When active, it disables EGA/VGA graphics. It can be temporarily disabled when you need EGA/VGA graphics and later reactivated. VGA Screen Saver (VGASCR) Gozum, Lawrence & Marvin $9 lets you capture VGA and MCGA screens in a MCGA 256 color mode and save the screen in a bloadable format. VPT 4.15 clySmic software $25 allows VGA or Display Adapter/2 users to view the quarter-million color palette and set any attribute (0-15) to any color. The colors can be save and re-loaded later and should remain with most programs. Other features include optimized network support, and a 1K TSR to help maintain the selected colors after other programs have changed them. 2851 VGA Fonts -------------- Romfnt 1.0 Godfrey, Tim $7 writes new fonts into the VGA BIOS ROM (which must be already loaded into shadow RAM). If your motherboard doesn't support shadowing the video BIOS, then you can't use this program. The new fonts will be permanent, and will survive mode changes. This program is not a TSR, and doesn't change anything in the VGA except the font data and ROM Checksum. Roman Font (ROMNFNT) Nordan, Matthew $0 is a font for VGAs that looks like a squared-off Roman typeface. VFont 1.0 Dunford, Christopher J. $0 is a VGA font loader. Fonts in various sizes are supplied, providing for 25, 30, 33, 36, 44, and 50-line VGA text displays. Also included with this program is ModSav, a 200-byte TSR that stops programs from trashing VGA screen fonts and VANSI, a VGA-specific ANSI driver. It has a very clean, easy to read sans-serif font. VFont does not work at the DOS prompt under DESQview, which has its own ANSI driver, but it WILL work with programs under DESQview which allows additional screen lines, such as, but not limited to, WordPerfect and Magellan. VFont 5.10 (VFONTCS) ClySmic Software $0 is a utility that loads replacement text-mode fonts for VGA systems. It includes a "modern" font and a handwritten scrawl font that is sure to make you smile. A 4.5k TSR keeps other programs from wiping out the font you have selected. VFont works with DESQview if you load it before loading DV, but not if you load it in a DV window. VGAFonts $0 is a large collection of different screen fonts for VGA. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2851 -------------------------------- ----------------------- 0860 Hercules Utilities Small Programs Disk ----------------------- CS contains three programs CS.COM, CSS.COM, AND MONO.COM. The CS and CSS are used to make your Hercules card simulate a Color Graphic Adapter. MONO. is used to resume the normal monochrome mode. EGA720 Geary, Michael $? demonstrates how to program an Enhanced Graphics Adapter driving monochrome display in a Hercules compatible 720x348 mode. It will work with any EGA card with at least 128k memory. Graphic Routines (GR) Quinlan, Michael $? is a simple graphics support for both Hercules Graphics Card and the IBM Color Graphics Adapter. Three "levels" of access are provided. The lowest level uses screen hardware coordinates. The second level of access is a simple window arrangement similar to that available in Turbo Pascal. The highest level of access is to specify world coordinates. HercTosh Simpson, Stephen G. $? is a memory resident, Hercules-to-Toshiba graphics screendump utility. (on disk #524) Herc-C Dickson, Bill $? is a preliminary of "C" callable Hercules graphics functions, some written on MicroSoft Macro assembler optimized for speed of execution. About the only tool missing from the basic set is a text character font and display function. Hercules (HERCULE) contains the following instructional files and programs: HERCULES.PRG is a memo explaining progrmming parameters for the Hercules Graphics board. HERCDEMO.COM and its adjoining files HERCDEMO.ASM (souce code), HERCBIOS.DOC (documentation) was written to help you understand the way the Hercules card works. HERCBIOS.COM is a TSR which takes over some functions from ROM BIOS INT 10h, providing IBM capatible graphics modes 6 and 7 and adding mode 8. HCHARSET.ASM is a simple test program to demonstrate IBM and Hercules mode. There is also a C program which gives more extended demonstration of the facility. HGCBsave allows you to save your graphics pictures. HGCIBM 2.02 Athena Digital $10 provides owners of Hercules Graphics Cards a means to run software written for the IBM Color Graphics Mode. Also there is an introduction to Athena's commercial version of their software Video BIOS which offers added funtionality. HPRTSC Groupe, Alan $0 prints a graphics screen from a Hercules monochrome graphics board onto the Epson LX80/LX90 and compatible printers. HView Chen, Raymond J. $? allows you to display the contents of a file on your Hercules monochrome graphics card. There are two versions available. HVIEW0 uses graphics page zero and is used when a grphics card is installed. HVIEW1 uses graphics page zero and is preferred since the text page is preserved and does not conflict with the graphics display. MagHerc 1.0 MicroMind $?-$35 is a 39k TSR that will display text on Hercules compatible monographics systems at double or quadruple their normal size. MagHerc will work with virtually any text-based program. Since all of the screen will no longer fit on the monitor, you can scroll around the screen using Alt plus the cursor keys. PrtSc 2.0 (PRTSCJH) Harper, Jeff $10-$20 is a very, very fast graphics screen dump for use with Hercules and compatible graphic display cards and monitors and Epson compatible printers. PrtSc will work with CGA emulation software. A Turbo Pascal Unit is included for doing screen dumps from TP programs. (res: 1k) SimCGA Guzis, Charles $? is a memory resident utility that allows you to "fool" most software requiring a Color Graphics Adapter into using your Hercules monochrome adapter in the graphics mode. TextFlip is a memory resident utility that flips between the character modes (ROM text, 48k RamFont, 4k RamFont) of the Hercules RamFont cards. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0860 -------------------------------- --------------------------- 1036 Screen Print Utilities Small Programs Disk --------------------------- 1036 Save/Recall Screens ------------------------ CutPaste 5 (CUTPAST) Boyd, Gerry; Weiss, Larry and Davis, Stephen R. $0 is a resident utility that lets you "cut" information from a screen and "paste" it into another program as if entering the information from the keyboard. Among the features are the ability to move the cursor a word at a time when marking a "box" to cut. This saves a LOT of time and aggravation compared to those that require you to move a character at a time. This ability also carries over to your application program if it does not already allow you to move a word at a time. Support is included for enhanced keyboards. TSR: 6k. Assembler source included. Deceive is touted as being a way to deceive your boss. With DECEIVE loaded into memory, you run a legitimate business program, press the keys that capture the screen, exit the program, start editing your resume or playing computer chess or whatever. Boss walks back in. You press the "hot key" and the legitimate business screen pops back up. Crafty, eh? If you think about it, you can probably think of a lot of legitimate uses for such a utility too. Be sure to read and follow the documentation closely to understand how the key combinations work. Flash2 Hack, Sidney $? lets you save up to two screens at any time and call them back up for viewing at any time. Flippage lets you flip between two video "pages" while working from DOS. This is especially useful when you need to save a screen of information to refer back to, such as a directory listing. You can issue copy, delete, compile or other commands on one "page" and then flip the other "page" back up to see the list again. A CGA (color/graphics card) is required. Grab4 1.3 Cravener, William $10 is a 30K TSR that lets you save text mode screens in their exact state, including screen colors. You can capture up to four screens in memory, and they can be saved to disk as COM files. Screens are easily recalled, and can be altered in the edit mode. KutsGlue 1.2 Sawada, Dr. Masaaki $10-$20 is a 6k-46k TSR cut and paste utility that allows each line in the block to be cut to a different length. It also supports up to 50-line video modes. In general, it works like most cut and pasters, but as you move down the right side of the screen marking the area to be cut, you are not constrained to a rectangle. You can move the cursor left/right as you go to change the length for each line. The buffer can be set to hold from 1k to 40k. Nabbit 1.7 RSE Inc $11 is a 2K TSR that lets you grab ASCII characters off your screen and insert them into other programs through the keyboard buffer whenever you press the Insert hot key. This is an easy way to transfer data between programs. You may also send captured data to your printer to print envelopes, labels, or partial screen dumps. Teleport Kahan, David $? can capture, re-display, edit and save to text files up to four different screens of data at once and displaying them simultaneously. Four captured screens can be viewed at once via four windows which can be individually scrolled, or you can zoom one window up to full size. (res:41k) A user reports that a letter to David Kahan, author of Teleport, came back marked unforwardable. TextBuf Chapman, Gary $? is a multi-featured utility that lets you capture data from the screen and "paste" it into another program. Among its features are the ability to copy columns of text; to copy non-adjacent parts of the screen; to paste all the text at once or a line at a time; to edit or print text you have captured; and to even use the capture buffer area and editor as a quick-and-dirty word processor. STARTKEY.COM lets you change the "hot key" for TEXTBUF. Winprint Burtner, Carl $? is designed to provide an easy, straight-forward method of printing or saving a portion of the screen and recording or playing back keystroke sequences. 1036 Screen Printing -------------------- FastDump 1.1 (FASTDMP) Systems Technology, Inc. $10-$20 is a fast 7k TSR screen dump program which supports CGA, EGA, VGA, Hercules and text screens. It supports Epson and IBM Proprinter dot matrix and HP LaserJet compatible printers. Output can be landscape (1 to a page) or portrait (1, 2, or 3 to a page). Alternatively, the output can be directed to a file. FastPrt speeds up PrtSc and allows you to abort out of a PrtSc. Ffeed is a resident utility that adds a form feed at the end of a screen dump so that you don't have to manually eject the paper. To give you the choice, this only works if you do a screen dump using the shift key on the right side of the keyboard. LQVGA 1.75 Ares Technologies $14-54 is a 18K TSR that allows you to print any VGA or Super VGA screen to an Epson, Canon Bubble Jet, IBM Graphics printer or compatible printer. It will print even hi-res and 256-color screens. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #18021.) Print Control Program 2.0 (PCP) Blanchard Software $10 is a pop-up Printer Control Program that offers more flexible print-screen functions, such as printing only selected portions of the screen, plus printer control from within other programs. The screen printing function will automatically print high-intensity screen colors in bold, underline text that is underlined on the screen, prints reverse video by printing a gray background, or just do a normal print-screen. It can be set up to work with any printer. (res;12k) PrtScr (PTSCR43) Vaughan, Jim $0 prints all 43/50 lines on an EGA/VGA display, unlike the standard BIOS which only prints 25 lines. ScrnSho 2.0 Fridlund, Alan J. $35 is a TSR screen capture utility and a display system for most text and graphics modes for CGA, EGA, and VGA. Once displayed, you can change the EGA/VGA palette or print the screen to Epson or HP LaserJet printers. Captured screens can now be saved in PCX format for importation into other programs. Other features include a disk file save option and help screens. SDump Dunford, Christopher J. $0 allows you to do a PrtSc (print a screen) to a file instead of to a printer. Unfortunately, Chris developed and wrote it under DOS 3 and it would sometimes hang up the system when we tested it under DOS 2. At last report, Chris was looking into the problem. Snip Richwell, Gunner $15 lets you capture a part of a screen, such as a column of numbers, and dump it to printer, disk file, or another location ("pasting") or deleted or filled with blanks, etc. (res:4k) Sprint speeds up Print-Screen, plus other features. SPS 1.3 Troiano, Paul $? is a Selective Print Screen utility. As the name implies, this utility will allow you to print selected portions of the screen. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1036 -------------------------------- ------------------------- 2247 Screen Capture Utils Small Programs Disk ------------------------- Concopy Dunford, Christopher J. $0 captures screen writing in a disk file at the same you are able to view it on the screen. This does not work for programs that write directly to video memory, which many programs do, but ConCopy should still prove very useful for many applications. Dirt Cheap Frame Grabber 2.03 (DCFG) Day, Michael $0 provides plans for building an interface for grabbing video from your TV or VCR Requires only a few parts and the printer port. Dumpy Natural Software ASP $20 captures text screens from other programs and lets you replay them later in slide-show fashion. It should work with most video cards. (res:<1k) EgaCam SML Services, Inc. $? lets you save text or graphics screens from an EGA monitor to a disk file. EGACap PFM, Inc. $0 is a 45k TSR which saves high-resolution (640x350x16) EGA graphics screens in a either PCX format or a format which can be BLOADed by GW, QB, Turbo BASIC. A handy utility, SHOWPCX, is included for viewing PCX files. Gemcap 4.01 Allen, Michael $35 allows you to capture screen images from other programs and save them in IMG format which can be read by many programs such as Ventura and WordPerfect. EGA/VGA graphics modes and high resolution EGA/VGA fonts are supported. Support for 640x200, 640x350, 640x480 & any 80 column text mode is included. Converts reverse video color attributes. Support for Hercules is provided in text mode only. GetScr is a resident program that will capture medium resolution screen pictures (ONLY) and store them in binary files in standard BSAVE format. These files may be used with the FLICKER presentation graphics system [2-GR-612] and other programs that can read BSAVEd files. GETSCR will capture Lotus graph displays and any other medium resolution screens. PC-Images 1.8 (PCIMAGE) RSE, Inc. $35 allows you to capture images from your screen and group them into carousels which can be run without the program. You can create pop-up slide shows or use a carousel as a screen saver. PushPop is the program that, once loaded, remains resident in memory. When it has been loaded, the CRT display can be copied to a screen-image file by concurrently depressing the Shift-PrtSc keys. POP.COM will restore the PUSHed screen and let you set or change the colors. Snapshot will capture a screen into a BLOADable file. (That is a file format used by BASIC and some other programs.) Save Our Screens 3.0 (SOS) Shapiro, Gary J. $20 is a pop-up utility that lets you capture and restore up to nine text screens in memory any number onto disk. This process can be done within most applications. Monochrome, Color, EGA and VGA text modes are fully supported in 40 and 80 column modes. PS/2 is supported. Screen sizes up to 80x50 on EGA/VGA/etc. are supported. (res:11k - 38k) TCap 1.01 McLain, J. P. $0 is a TSR (10k) text screen capture utility that saves to disk. Another utility in the set, SHOW, will let you view and print the files or convert them to text or binary for use in other programs. TdSnap Standley, Jim $? captures a "snapshot" of a screen and adds it to a specified capture file. Textshot 2.1 (TXTSHOT) McAdams Associates ASP $25 is a 20K TSR that saves images of any 80-column text screen to monochrome PCX format. It supports all common video standards. Features include image clipping, switchable fonts, image inversion and color patterns. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8948.) -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2247 -------------------------------- -------------------- 0280 Video Utilities Small Programs Disk -------------------- 0280 ANSI Utilities: ------------------- NOTE: Many programs require the use of ANSI.SYS which comes with DOS. All you have to do is copy it to your boot disk and add the line DEVICE=ANSI.SYS to your CONFIG.SYS file. Check your DOS manual for more info. The following are improvements over DOS's ANSI.SYS and ANSI-related utilities: Ansi Color/Prompt Selector 6.05 (ANSICLR) ClySmic Software $0 is a screen color selector for those who use an ANSI screen driver. It allows easy color selection using mnemonics instead of numbers; has a random color election mode; and sets the prompt to a contrasting color. An OS/2 version is included. ANSI Mouse 1.0 (ANSIMOU) Deala, Alan $0 is an ANSI screen designer/drawer that is completely mouse driven. You can change text colors and characters through drop down menus. Results are saved in ANSI format files. Lansi Kroener, John C. $0 lets you select ANSI files from a menu and view them. Great for BBS sysops who have a lot of ANSI "graphics" files. Newart and Smoothy (NEWART) Rexxcom Systems $17 contains a new extended ANSI character set. While the standard character set limits you to straight horizontal and vertical lines, Newart includes over 130 altered characters which let you create impressive screen drawings and fonts containing curves and smooth, slanted lines. EGA/VGA is required. Qwikansi is a replacement console device driver for ANSI.SYS. In conjunction with QWIKMODE and QWIKSCRN, it provides greatly increased screen writing. Warp Driver 2.2 (WARPDRV) Tauck, Eric $0 is an improvement over DOS's ANSI.SYS. It performs faster screen writing, optional automatic pause when the screen gets full (based on a user-specified number of lines), screen color setting on start-up, a shortened BIOS beep, and more. Support is provided for Tseng text modes 21H to 24H, 26H, and 2AH. Zansi Hanlin, Thomas $? is a modification of NANSI.SYS that is smaller and faster, but lacks a couple of NANSI's more esoteric features. Zansi is 45% faster (in writing screens) than if you use no device driver; it is 32% faster than using ANSI.SYS which comes with DOS and it is 8% faster than NANSI.SYS. 0280 Banners/Displays --------------------- Also see the Batch section and the Graphics section for screen displays. Banner Smith, Martin $? is designed to help you get a message to the screen as easily as possible. It can load and save files from disk, and includes an editor with a user definable set of color keys to make color changes. This is the ultimate in message scrolling utilities. Even lets you add music. Flash 2.0 (FLASHDT) Todd, Dennis P. $5 displays a message in large letters on the screen. The message can be entered after calling up the program, or you can specify a file to display from the DOS command line. The ability to display a file on the screen in large letters has been frequently requested by those seeking to help vision-impaired people. The text is seven character spaces high and up to seven or eight characters wide. This is certainly large enough, but the ASCII-block font used could be better. (We invite Mr. Todd to check out BIG-TEXT on disk 1-PR-689 for sharper large ASCII fonts for the screen.) Nevertheless, we expect to see this utility flashing messages on screens at the next computer trade show we attend. Magic gives your computer the ability to print or display letters up to 10 inches high and 5 inches wide. The program can also be used to have a message scroll continously on the screen. 0280 Colors ----------- Aurora Ruddy Duck Software $? sets color attributes on color graphic card. Border Miller, I. B. $? lets you maintain your choice of color for the border of the screen even when another program happens to wipe it out. BW-Only Dudley, Marshall $? will let you use color programs on a composite (eg: "green screen") monitor. BW-ONLY2 will work with some programs that BW-ONLY may not help. BWVID Killen, Scott $? will filter colors out of a display so that you can see the screens on a amber or green monitor. For programs that manage to bypass this filter, Scott uses a second mode of attack that he calls "screen cleaning" which actually reads the colors from the screen and converts them to black or white. Clorbits (CLORBIT) Wisan, Richard $? displays screen color combinations and attribute numbers and lets you experiment with both - a good way to gain an understanding screen attribute bytes. Does NOT require ANSI.SYS. Clrs Moon, Raymond $? Normally, if you have set a color attribute while in DOS and issue DOS's CLS command to clear the screen, DOS will leave the text the right color, but the cursor itself is white. This utility will clear the screen and keep the cursor the right color. Colors (COLRTSA) Telemacus Software Associates $? displays screen colors and lets you set them if you use ANSI.SYS. Color & ClrColor Wisan, Richard $? sets screen colors without the need for ANSI.SYS. Colour Swift-Ware $0 allows you to set screen colors with the option of creating a small COM file that resets your selected colors if they are lost. Also included is a utility for redefining the function keys in DOS. DOScolor displays a color chart showing colors and their associated numbers. See POPCOLOR Screen Enhancer 2.4 (SCRNHNC) Brandyware $0 allows you to add a lot of useful and/or esthetic touches to your DOS screen. All of this is in effect immediately after running the program and scrolls off as you use DOS, but you could put the program at the end of all your batch files to make DOS look fancier at those points. (Not on this disk. Ask for disk #8615.) Swatch Greenhut, Rick $? simply displays the various colors available with ANSI control codes and the corresponding codes. 0280 SpeedUp ------------ Dspctl is a set of two programs: FAST.COM will increase the display rate of the T-1000 by roughly 20 to 25%. SLOW.COM will restore the display rate to normal. FastScn speeds up screen writing. RAW speeds up screen writing when used with NANSI.SYS. TheFast 1.04 TheSoft Programming Services and Davis, Ian E. $5 speeds up the video display. It is similar to a program in the library named Zeno, except that Zeno does not work on the Tandy 1000 and TheFast does. It will cause `snow' on some video cards. (res:1k) Zeno 2.0 Lazarus, M. $0 is a small, fast, memory-resident program that speeds up certain screen writes. The actual increase in speed is almost three-fold, but the increase you see on the screen depends on the application program in use. (res:1k) 0280 Other ---------- Cbeep 1.4 Swift-Ware $0 allows you to replace the usual system beep sounds with a visual flash of selectable size and duration. CoLap 1.0 Meyer, Eric $0 allows you to adjust the contrast and brightness on laptop computers to a greater extent than the manual controls. CoLap is a 1.5k TSR. You can adjust the brightness by holding down RightShift and pressing the up or down cursor keys. CoLap works by adjusting the VGA palette and can also be used on desktops. ThunderScreen 2.21 (TSCREEN) Reznick, Josh $7 is a 52k pop up video utility that will let you change cursor size, set border color, blank the screen, do a warm boot, and display free disk space and video modes. It will toggle between 25- and 43-line video modes on EGA/VGA. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #0280 -------------------------------- --------------- 2769 Backscroll Small Programs Disk --------------- BackScrl allows you to recall screens in DOS that have already scrolled away. It allows up to 30 screens, but at a cost in memory of 2.5k per screen buffer. You can specify how many screen buffers to reserve. Buffit 3.0 Hamilton, David T. $10-$15 is a `backscroll' type of utility. It will let you page back through text previously displayed on the screen, assuming the text was not written directly to video memory. (This pretty much limits its usefulness to DOS, these days.) A 20k buffer is enough to capture about 15-25 screens of text. Buffit has a couple of features not in other backscroll utilities we have seen. One is the ability to dump the contents of the screen buffer into a disk file or send it to the printer. Another is a `control panel' from which you can clear the buffer, toggle capture on and off, and more. It utilizes expanded memory, and has the ability to unload itself from memory. HindSite Dunford, Christopher J. $? is only of interest to owners of Chris Dunford's PCED (a commercial program not available from us). This is a utility to let you scroll back through information that has already scrolled off the screen in DOS. JCScroll 1.95 (JCSCROL) Chasen, Jeffrey $10 is an 8K TSR that allows you to view text that has scrolled off the monitor. The number of lines available to view is controlled with a command line option. All text modes and EMS are supported. Re-View 1.8 Bly, Vincent T. $15 lets you recall up to three previous screens of information in DOS. While it doesn't allow as many screens as BACKSCRL to be recalled, it doesn't use DOS RAM to store them either. Instead, it uses RAM on CGA cards that is unused when the card is in the text mode. Consequently, it will not work on systems which do not have close CGA compatibility. Scroll (SCRL-RD) Dempsey, Robert J. $? lets you scroll back through text that has already scrolled off the screen in DOS. The author says this version may work on some systems on which other back-scroll utilities do not. (IBM-compatible graphics card required.) SCROLLit 1.7 (SCROLIT) 08-93 CD Bromfield Software Products $17 is a screen backscroll utility which allows you to bring back into view lines that have already scrolled off the screen. As a TSR, it uses less than 10k of conventional RAM. You can specify how much RAM to use for storing screens. SCROLLit will try to store screens in XMS and EMS memory before resorting to conventional memory. In addition, it compresses text so that about twice as many screens can be stored in the same amount of RAM as other programs. Other features include the ability to capture screen writing that bypasses DOS and uses the BIOS, backward and forward text searches and the ability to write selected blocks of text to a file. Was 0.62 Lazo, Charles III $0 uses EMS to store text that has scrolled off the screen in DOS so that you can scroll it back for reexamination. Only 5k of DOS RAM is used to implement the program. The space-hungry data is stored in EMS. Assembler source code is included. 2769 Dual Monitors ------------------ BlOther Shenaut, Greg $0 blanks the screen of the currently inactive monitor in dual-monitor systems. TC++ 1.01 source code is included. CRTS-DRV Bering, Tom $0 are drivers for systems with Monochrome and Color displays. For example, you can say DIR > MDRV or CDRV and put a directory listing on the Monochrome or the Color display while you're working on the opposite display. DupeScrn (DUPSCRN) Crosby, Brent A. $0 copies the contents of the color monitor to the mono monitor on a dual-monitor setup. Flip lets you switch between color and mono monitors on systems with both adapter cards. Command Format: FLIP NUM ON/OFF; FLIP MONO ON; FLIP COLOR 40/80. PagePop 1.0 Sunrise $15 is a TSR that helps get the most out of dual-monitor (color and monochrome) systems. It can also be used on one-monitor systems to capture text screens to be called up later for viewing or writing to disk. It uses video memory to store up to nine different pages of text. Dual-monitor functions include copying all or parts of screens between monitors, clearing one or both screens, saving the contents of the video text page region to a disk file, restoring a screen from the disk file, changing screen colors, cut and paste text on a screen, and more. Screen will allow you to toggle between the monochrome and color graphics card and leave the inactive CRT screen intact. SwapMon Utilities (SWAPMON) Klausner, Ben $0 toggles between a color monitor and a monochrome display. The contents of the screen you are leaving are left intact in order to reference them. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2769 -------------------------------- ------------------------------------- 2170 CGA Fonts & Video Mode Utilities ------------------------------------- Fontedit (FONTEDI) Synergy Software of Nebraska $? lets you create and edit your own character fonts on the CGA. 2170 Video Mode, Other ---------------------- 130 Graham, Keith P. $0 is an interesting demo of how a CGA screen can be pushed into producing low resolution 130 color graphics. AnsiEd Queern, John $0 makes it very easy to add color and other flourishes to your text files. AnsiEd will display a specified text file and let you quickly and easily make changes to it. When it saves your file back to disk, it inserts ANSI color commands; then the next time you TYPE the file in DOS, your text appears in the colors you used, assuming you have DEVICE=ANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file (see your DOS manual). C source code is included. ATT25/ATT50 puts the AT&T into the 50- and 25-line modes. CLX 2A Beck, Randolph $0 is a 1k TSR that intercepts a CLS and clears the screen in a fancy way. May not work on some mono monitors. Font Height Utility 1.0 (FONTHT) Meyer, Eric $0 lets you select from a wide variety of font sizes for EGA/VGA. LCsrite lets you write on the screen temporarily without affecting the program you are in or its data. The text you write will remain on the screen until your program overwrites it or the screen clears. A CGA-compatible video card is required. (res:1k) Lineset is a text file that shows the IBM line drawing character set in a box format that makes it easy to find the desired character code. The chart is followed by a complete ASCII table in character number order. NoAnsi Maruna, Franz C. $0 is a handy program that lets you view Ansi drawings and colors without installing ANSI.SYS. PS2VID will allow you to change your video mode on a PS2. Reset Video (REVID) Ford, Nelson ASP $0 resets your video back to normal text mode. When testing programs, we are sometimes left with no cursor or a black-on-black screen or with some illegible EGA/VGA font, etc. Most of the time, typing MODE 80 will get things back to normal, but if you're in some strange graphics mode, MODE won't work. Scrnform.BAS prints out a worksheet of the screen divided into 25x80 cells for laying out screens. Sizeit Fretz, Douglas C. $0 puts a movable ruler on the screen so that you can easily figure the column number of data on the screen. It also has a vertical so that you can determine row number. For good measure, the actual numbers of row and column are displayed at the bottom of the screen. SLT-Vid Frank, Tom $0 lets you toggle the display on a Compaq SLT/286 between white on black or black on white. Assembler source code is included. UP moves the cursor back up the screen when ANSI.SYS is being used. An interesting us of UP is when have something on the screen in DOS, such as a directory listing, and want to enter a lot of commands, such as deleting or copying files, and you don't want the listing to scroll off the screen. After each command, enter UP and the number of lines the command used on the screen and the cursor is back where it was. VidModes Sittler, Paul $? allows the user to check on what video mode the IBM video board is in and optionally change the video mode to the desired video mode. "VIDMODE n" will change the mode to the mode number "n". VideoTst displays dots, horizontal and vertical lines and color bars to aid in testing and aligning your monitor. What Video 2.1 (WHATVID) Panther Associates $5 tells you the kind of video adapter installed on a system and what graphics modes are available on it. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2170 -------------------------------- -------------------------- 2915 Cursor/Prompt Control Small Programs Disk -------------------------- 2915 Cursor ----------- Blink Dunford, Christopher J. $? is an effort to still the blinking cursor. IBM did not really intend for it to be stilled, so this program doesn't do a perfect job of it, but if the blinking is a serious problem for you, this utility can help. May not work on some systems. Blink-Off! 1.1 (BLNKOFF) RSE, Inc. $11 is a 1k TSR that lets you turn off the blinking cursor and replace it with a block cursor in a color of your choice. Tommie R. Talley, Ardmore, OK: "Blink-off does not seem to configure properly. I have only been able to bring up the default size cursor and the color changes from the chosen one when toggling back and forth at the DOS prompt." PsL: According to the author's documentation the color depends on what size the cursor would be if it weren't blinking. As you know, many programs change the size of the cursor to indicate different things. Therefore Blink-Off changes the cursor color when it notices a change in the cursor size. BloCurs Cummings, Steve $0 turns the cursor into a large block that can easily be seen on any laptop screen. BlockCursor3 (BC3) Hummer, Robert W. $0 is a tiny TSR that maintains the computer's cursor in a block shape, no matter what program you are in. BriteLine 1.4 (BRITELN) RSE Inc. $11 is a 1k TSR that highlights the entire line the cursor is on, making it easier to locate the cursor on laptops and to follow rows of numbers, etc, across the screen on any computer. Compqcur will restore a normal cursor on a Compaq if some other program has left it in an abnormal state. Curon lets you change the shape of the cursor using the Home and End keys. It worked all right on a CGA but not quite right on a VGA. Cursr lets you define the shape of your cursor. CurSiz and Cursor Mueller, Bill $? CURSIZ tells you the parameters of your present cursor shape, and CURSOR lets you change them. KeepCrs Ross, Ed $? loads and stays in memory to keep other programs from messing up your cursor, as some like to do. NO-BLINK - see BLINK, above. SetBlink (SETBLNK) Rosetta Stone Systems $25 is a 1k TSR that lets you set the cursor blink rate and shape. This is the best cursor control utility we have seen, although it still has several bugs in it. You can easily select from 18 different cursor shapes or create your own and then switch between the new cursor shape and the old PC cursor at any time. It is intended mainly for word processing and it "goes away" when using a spreadsheet program. Bugs: When we selected a non-blinking block cusor, it left a "trail" in column one when doing a DIR in DOS. When we toggled back to what was supposed to be the "normal" system cursor, we instead got a cursor at the "top" of the line. Nevertheless, we think this program has great potential and trust that the bugs will be fixed. V7Curs 1.01 ClySmic Software $0 is a 430-byte TSR that sets the cursor to a non-blinking mode on Video Seven VGA systems. #2915 Prompt ------------ BART $0 is a batch file that creates a DOS prompt that looks like Bart Simpson. If you get the message "Out of environment space", see your DOS manual to increase the space. Birthday.Bat $0 is a batch file that sets the DOS prompt to a color display of a birthday cake with twinkling candles on top and "Happy Birthday" below. Prmt $0 is a batch file that sets your DOS prompt to display a message and/or time and date at the top of the screen. Prompter (PRMPTER) Ball, William J. $5 lets you add your choice of colorful illustrations to your DOS prompt. Included are 50 different pictures, including stars, castle, eyes, and Godzilla. Since the "pictures" must be drawn with ASCII characters, some are pretty weak, but others are very good. Skull-Prompt (SKULL-P) REXXCOM Systems $0 displays a miniature skull or star prompt along with a weird font. Requires EGA/VGA. BONES, also on this disk, displays several similar prompts with a different font. Your young computerists in the house will particularly enjoy these. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #2915 -------------------------------- -------------------- 3884 Screen Blanking Small Programs Disk -------------------- Blank (BLNK-ET) Tauck, Eric $10 is a 500-byte TSR that blanks the screen (VGA only) after a specified period of keyboard or (serial) mouse inactivity. This is the only screen blanker for DOS in the library that will also detect mouse activity. Burnout II Dunford, Christopher J. $? is the definitive utility for screen blanking (to prevent burn-in of characters on the screen during periods of screen inactivity.) It will blank EGA and VGA cards in any mode, including the 43-line mode, and it will not affect communications as some screen-blanking utilities do. FractalSave Screen Saver 1.0 (FSSS) Price, James H. $15 is a 19k TSR screen saver utility based on the popular FractalWeave program. It works with all monitor types. ITALK SwiftWare $0 is a talking screen blanker. An animated pair of blinking eyes appears on your screen and if someone tampers with your keyboard, one of four digitized messages is spoken through the PC's speaker. Noyb is a utility that lets you blank out the screen by pressing a key combination. ("NOYB" stands for "None of Your Business".) Chris Dunford's definitive, all-round screen-blanking utility, BURNOUT [1-UT-2915] allows you to blank the screen on demand as well as when the screen is inactive. Quixx 3.0 Kraidin, Jonathan $15 is a TSR screen blanker with a graphics display of moving, colored lines. It makes use of Expanded Memory if available. A starfield display is also available. Requires DOS 3.0 or above. Scrnsave 2.1 (EGASAVE) O'Neill, Brian $0 is a screen-blanking utility for the EGA and VGA. Features include a timeout interval which can be set from the command line and immediate screen blanking by pressing a hotkey. (res:1k) Scrsave2 Cracchiolo, Joseph J. $? is a screen blanking utility that checks the status of the key lock on AT's and compatibles and only blanks the screen if the key is in the LOCK position. This gives you more control over the blanking than those programs that blank the screen after a certain number of minutes. ShowLogo 1.0 (SHOLOGO) Desert Frog Software $20 is a 6.8k TSR screen saver that displays your logo or other PCX file. It monitors the keyboard, mouse and parallel ports and blanks the screen after a specified period of inactivity. It supports 25, 43 and 50 line color displays and EGA/VGA graphics. Optionally, instead of blanking the screen, it can lock your system until you enter a password. Hot keys let you temporarily disable it or blank the screen at will. It also offers the option of displaying a user-specified, five-line message instead of the graphics. Sparks 901123 Hause, William D. $10 is an 8k TSR screen saver program for EGA/VGA that blanks the screen after a specified period of inactivity and puts on a graphics fireworks show. Blanking on demand is available at the press of a key as well. StarSvr Lead Dog Computer Services $5 is 44k TSR screen saver that displays the stars in the Milky Way. The user can adjust the speed, density, colors and timer options. It also lets you blank the screen on demand. Unlike displays where all the stars appear to streak towards you, there is little activity in this one other than the winking on and off of the stars and an occasional streak of a star or comet or something. Sticks 920125 Hause, William D. $15 is an 8K TSR screen saver with a kaleidoscope graphics display. Requires EGA/VGA. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3884 -------------------------------- Blank-It 5.1b Rhode Island Soft Systems, Inc. ASP $15 #12080 is a 1k TSR screen blanking program. It works on all types of video systems and in graphics as well as text modes. It allows screen blanking on demand and will blank characters written to the screen while the screen is in the blanked mode. Other features include hotkey support, Windows compatibility, and more. Also included is APIBlank, a sample program with source code that controls Blank-It via the Blank-It API. Desert Frog Screen Scenes 3.2 Desert Frog Software $15 #3184 are TSR (15k) screen blankers/savers with a twist. Instead of just blanking the screen after a period of inactivity, they display graphics or special effects. On VGA systems, 256-color graphics are supported. Features include Logitech and Microsoft mouse support, the ability to go to sleep and wake up from the command line, password protection, and the use of EMS to reduce DOS RAM usage to 7K. A color monitor and a hard disk are required. Explosiv 3.0 08-93 CD Gresseth, Reidar & Hook, Chris $20 #4350 contains screen savers for both DOS and Windows. The DOS version is a TSR that uses from 1 to 16K, and features five unusual animated displays. The Windows version has two animated displays, and also includes password protection. Both can also blank the screen with no animation. It also allows you to turn GIF graphic files into a screen saver display. Big Utilities Bellamy, Jack L. $10 #20140/2652 is a family of text mode magnifying utilities for those people whose eyesight is significantly impaired. It stores the text appearing on your text mode screen and rewrites it in a stroked font in a graphics mode (a mono version is also included). You can adjust the magnification to suit your needs and move about the "enlarged" screen to read all of it. When you press escape, the original text mode screen is restored so that you can continue to make entries via the keyboard. Also included on this disk: SeeBeep Cravener, William $0 is a 4K TSR that replaces the system beep with a visual indication. This is particularly useful for hearing impaired user, as well as for those who need to run programs quietly. BPop Hexagon Products $27 #20140/2153 lets you magnify text screens while in any program. In the enlarged mode, the characters on the screen no longer fit on the screen, so you use the cursor keys to scroll around. This utility is ideal for the vision-impaired or for use on laptops or presentations where large print is helpful. With CGA or better graphics, you can choose from several different font sizes. A text search capability is included. ------------------------------------ 20140/3411 Vision-Impaired Utilities Small Programs Disk ------------------------------------ Big 1.0 (BIG-123) Hexagon Products $39 is a 30k TSR screen magnifier for Lotus 1-2-3 versions 1A, 2.01, 2.2, and, with some restrictions, version 3.0 of 1-2-3. It enlarges parts of the screen appropriate to the context. BigLtr 1.0 Sawada, Dr. Masaaki $10-$20 duplicates each keystroke you make in a large font in a horizontally scrolling line across the bottom of the screen. This should be a real boon for people with impaired vision. The display can be toggled off and on without leaving your program. Since BigLtr takes up several lines at the bottom of the screen for displaying text, it will work only with programs that do not use those lines. The on-disk documentation tells how to patch WordStar 3.3 and 4.0 and WordPerfect 5.0 so that they will not use those lines. The default for BigLtr causes the display to lag what is being typed by a letter, which we found to be confusing when testing it. The documentation tells you how to change to an "immediate" display. res:5k BLook 2.0 Hexagon Products $0 is a large-print text file reading program. Using the cursor keys, you can scroll or page back and forth through the file to read it. Since lines will be longer than the screen in the enlarged modes, you can move a screen at a time or jump to either end of a line with the function keys. Blook is handy for the vision impaired or for doing demos for a group. BType 2.0 Hexagon Products $0 is a large-character replacement for DOS's TYPE command. It differs from Blook in that it can read any size file and it cannot page or scroll back through text that has scrolled off the screen. MySpeech 1.3 (MYSPCH) Newman, Norman $20 is a 2K TSR which reads keystrokes and speaks them through the Covox Speech Thing. This program is available on the Speech Thing Programs disk #9013, which can be ordered for $5, but is given free when you purchase a Speech Thing. The Magnify System 2.0 (MAGNIFY) Swayne, Patrick $0 is a set of programs that double the size of the characters on all or part of a text screen. Included is a big-character file-viewing utility. Requires EGA/VGA. ReadIt 1.5 DLJ Software $15 is a text file display/reading program written by a blind computer programmer who uses a text-to-speech software package to access computers. This file reader has many features found in other file viewing utilities and is easy to use for both sighted people and persons using speech software and synthesizers. The speech features which are important for those that cannot view the screen include an automatic line wrap feature so lines are not broken in the middle of words and error messages have a tone. -------------------------------- END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #3411 -------------------------------- Display Font Editor Rimrock Software ASP $49 #3673 is a graphics based editor and utilities for creating and modifying custom EGA/VGA display fonts. Customized fonts can be loaded into the display adapter and used in place of the normal display font. The utilities provide useful capabilities such as loading fonts to the display, mapping fonts and converting fonts to ASCII. Requires 640K EGA, VGA or Hercules. Mouse is recommended. Duke Language Toolkit Duke University $0 #1228 was developed by Duke University for creating foreign language fonts for the EGA. It creates fonts like Hebrew and Russian but it is a great tool for creating alternative ordinary screen fonts. Paul McCarthy who brought this program to our attention has also added some fonts that he wrote using this program (a sanserif, a light sanserif and a light serif and many others). He said the program is also useful for creating certain alternate characters. Utilities are also included for converting the generic fonts created by the font editor for the Toshiba, Proprinter and Epson. Explosiv Logo Hook and Gresseth Software $25 #4852 lets you turn any 16-color GIF file into a pop-up screen saver. DOS and Windows versions and some sample GIFs are included. A screen capture utility is also provided. EGA/VGA required. Font123 TDK Systems, Inc. $5 #3256 is a text font editor for EGA and VGA displays. Up to eight fonts can be loaded simultaneously on a VGA. Many sample fonts are included. There is also character table switching; instant font installation; customization; support for font sizes from 5-32 pixels; character preview; editing functions including complement, mirror, rotate, size adjustment and more. Font Mania 2.3 REXXCOM Systems $19 #4116 is an EGA/VGA font editor. It can be used to edit a computer's default text font; create a new font-set; save a font in a COM file which can be executed from the DOS prompt or from a batch file; incorporate redesigned fonts into programs; customize fonts for special effects and more. Fractal Mania 1.0 Desert Frog Software $17 #12038 is a 7K TSR screen saver that displays animated fractal scenes. It pops-up over text or graphics and supports 256-color graphics. Requires a hard disk and VGA. Grabber 3.96 Monroe, Gerald A. $29-$59 #3473 lets you capture text and graphics screens to a COM file which, when run, will re-display the screen. All you have to do is type in the name of the file from DOS to display the captured file. A memory-resident utility is provided that captures character-based text screens directly to plain ASCII text files. Grabber supports most video systems, including IBM compatible Monochrome Display Adapters ("MDA"), advanced EGA/VGA text modes, and Hercules compatible mono-graphics adapters in the text mode. Grabber also supports DOS errorlevel functions for use in batch files. Other features include the ability to convert captured graphic images to PCX, GIF, and PIC formats and hotkey support. Fansi-Console #7264/287 [2 disks] is a video enhancement utility that replaces DOS's ANSI.SYS. It's main purpose is to speed up screen writing. It also has a scroll/recall facility that lets you view lines that have scrolled off the top of the screen in DOS. Nansi.SYS #7264/595 is a fast replacement for ANSI.SYS. It supports 43/50-line modes of EGA/VGA. PCXDump 8.1 Frandsen, Jesper $30 #4201 is a 9K TSR that saves graphic screen to a disk file in PCX format. PCX files can be loaded into almost any program that supports graphics. PCXDump supports a large number of SuperVGA controllers. Other features include a menu-controlled interface, greyscale support, virtual screen support, automatic timed screen captures, hotkey options, split-screen capture support, a PCX file-viewing utility, and much more. EGA/VGA required. PhantomScreen 1.0 OSCS Software Development, Inc. $30 #12286 At last, there is a shareware screen saver for DOS to rival those for Windows. PhantomScreen lets you choose from a list of displays, including aquarium, aircraft, clocks, dinosaurs (a little gross, people in their way are picked up and eaten), "windshield wipers" (also a little gross, bugs come flying towards the screen where they splatter and are then wiped away by the windshield wipers), and many more. You can also import PCX images of up to 1024x768x256 colors. A control box lets you select and preview screen savers. Requires a hard disk and 640K RAM. Prism Gerrold, David $25 #2978 allows you to reset the color attributes on your VGA screen. This VGA palette editor will allow you to choose from 262,144 different colors for your text mode screens. Color combinations can be saved to disk and recalled; over 50, with such names as Twilight and Confetti, are included. SC&P 1.01 Noyes, Christopher J. $30-$53 #4577 captures text mode screens and converts them to bitmapped graphics. This allows you to do print-outs that have all the attributes that appeared on the screen, rather than just a straight ASCII printout. Screens can be printed to HP laser printers, PCX, TIF or Ventura IMG graphic files. Plain text files can be produced. The entire screen can be printed or just a portion. Reproduction of a screen may be changed in terms of attributes and height/width ratio. Screen Font Editor 1.0 Lilley, Jeremy $15 #12102 is an integrated EGA/VGA font and ANSI editor. Unlike other ANSI screen editors that can only draw crude block graphics, SFE lets you simulate real graphics by creating smoothly slanted lines, etc., as ANSI characters. The resulting displays and fonts can be linked to your own code if you are a programmer, or you can display the screens stand-alone. Several fonts and a demo are included. Requires EGA/VGA. Screen Thief 1.01 [SCRNTHF] Nildram Software ASP $44 #12294 captures screens, including some which other programs cannot. Screens are captured directly to GIF, PCX, TIF or BMP format. All VGA modes are supported including Trident and Paradise controllers in SVGA modes. The program also captures redefined fonts in text mode such as those used by DOS 6. Requires 286 or better and VGA. UltraFont Pettersen, Kurt $15 #3954 lets you create and modify EGA/VGA screen fonts. The program is easy to use. Characters can be copied between fonts. Requires 640K. ]]]]]