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^C~1|F BIG BLUE DISK -- Number 22 ^N
^C~4|F FIRST THINGS FIRST ^N
|9DISKOVERY
|Cby Daniel Tobias
Notes from the disk of the editor.
|9ABOUT BIG BLUE DISK
An introduction to the feature categories.
|9TABLE OF CONTENTS
[You are here.] A brief look at this month's features.
^C~4|F BRAINWARE ^N
|9EIGHT QUEENS
|Cby John Sigle
See your PC solve the classic problem of placing eight queens on a chessboard
with no two attacking each other. Includes algorithm in Turbo Pascal code.
^C~4|F HELPWARE ^N
|9SIMPLE BUDGET
|Cby Richard E. Hamel
Plan your personal finances with this handy program.
|9MASTER INDEXER
|Cby David Leithauser
Generate an index of your favorite magazine articles arranged by subject of
interest. Handy for creating bibliographies or for your personal reference.
|9CALENDAR
|Cby Dan Harrison
This program can show on-screen calendars for any month of this century or
next, with major holidays shown.
^C~4|F THE HAPPY HACKER ^N
|9DATES
|Cby Dan Harrison
These .OBJ files can be linked into your QuickBASIC programs to do many handy
operations involving dates, including calculating what weekday a date is,
the number of days between two dates, and even the date of Easter. These
functions were used in the Calendar program this issue.
|9LONGEST LINE
|Cby Jeffrey Rush
Find the length of the longest line of a text file; use this to see in advance
if the printout will get cut off on an 80-column printer, or check that a
file is within the line length limit of a text editor program.
^C~4|F FUN 'N GAMES ^N
|9FRIGATE
|Cby Matthew Kaufman
You're the captain of a frigate in this single-player naval battle. Not an
arcade "shoot-em-up," this game requires careful planning and thought in
order to survive and defeat the enemy.
^C~4|F - SPECIAL PROGRAM - ^N
|9PC-WINDOW
|Cfrom Advanced System Design
This handy shareware utility stays resident in memory and lets you pop up
windows to perform some useful functions, like a notepad and a stopwatch.
|9ON THE EDITOR'S DESK
|Cby Daniel Tobias
A survey of interesting products for PC users, and news in the computer
industry.
^C~4|F DISKUSSION ^N
|9BLUE NOTES
This is the section where you talk to each other and to us.
^C~4|F LAST THINGS LAST ^N
|9BLUELINE EDITOR
Use this free word processor to send us your comments and questions. Sound
off! Tell us what you think.
|9IN THE MAIL
Read this section to find out how to subscribe to BIG BLUE DISK.
|9CREDITS
Nice words about the nice people who create BIG BLUE DISK.