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^CBy Daniel Tobias

   Usually, the second disk of BIG BLUE DISK is taken up by a shareware package,
presented as our Special Program.  This gives you the opportunity to try out a
professional-quality program presented in its entirety; if you like it and
continue to use it, you are requested to make a contribution to the program's
author or publisher.  However, this issue we are doing something different.  We
received "Screen Maker" and its companion programs "ShowMaker," "Show," and
"Capture" as regular program submissions.  Taken together, they filled an entire
disk, making it hard to fit them on a regular issue.  However, they were
programmed so well that they matched the quality of commercial and shareware
programs.  Hence, we decided to treat these programs as the Special Program for
this month, presented here with no "shareware" strings attached.  That's right:
you can use them all you want without having to send anybody any contributions.
This set of programs is handy for creating text-mode title screens for your
programs, capturing and examining screens from within other people's programs,
setting up demos or slideshows, and many other such tasks.

   Let this be a lesson to aspiring programmers out there: if you submit your
work to BIG BLUE DISK, it might just end up as the lead feature of a future
issue.  And we'll make it worth your while; we have been making an effort to
increase our payments for programs we publish, in order to obtain top-quality
material.  Now we pay a minimum of $100, and on up depending on the nature and
quality of the program.  If you enter our CodeQuest contest, the payoff can be
as high as $1000, the prize which one lucky (or skillful) IBM PC programmer (and
one each of Apple and Commodore programmers) will receive.  So get hacking
today!

   In addition to the lead features, there are, as usual, several other
programs.  Anna's Gram returns with a second installment, featuring puns as bad
as in the first.  Get the letters rearranged in the right order, and prepare to
groan.  Also included is Go-Mo-Ku, a computerized implementation of the classic
Japanese board game.  You can play it against the computer, against another
human player, or watch the computer play against itself.  Our younger readers
should get a kick out of "Monkey's Uncle," our answer to the popular "Simon"
electronic game.  Can you remember the notes in the tune the computer plays, and
reproduce them?  Older readers whose memories of tunes extend over decades
rather than seconds should do well in another feature on this issue, the Rock &
Roll Quiz.  Test your knowledge of popular music, past and present.

   ^1Coming Attractions:^0  Next issue, we present the Structured Programming 
Language as our special program.  This shareware compiler turns structured, 
Pascal-like code into standard BASIC.  BIG BLUE DISK #16 also contains a 
solitaire card game, an adventure game, a mathematical interpolation program, 
the return of Alfredo, Print Shop images, and more.  Don't miss it!

   Anyway, that's all I've got to say right now.  Run the rest of this issue and
see it for yourself.