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MEDIA METHODS SOFTWARE
Now Available
ENTERTAINMENT DISK
Registered version ($15.00) contains;
"Prince," without commercials.
"Automata" - Explore cellular automata; Lotus-style interface.
"Life" - A very fast version of John Horton Conway's famous
game, in both text and CGA graphics versions.
"NewMusic" - Use a rational notation to write a melody, then
hear it played by the program.
PROGRAMMER'S TOOLKIT (For Turbo Pascal)
Shareware version contains:
Make program
Librarian program
Source code for the Basic Library
Demos for
Windows
Formatted data-entry screens
Registered version ($20.00) contains:
Make program
Source code for Librarian
Source code for Complete Library, including
Windows module
Formatted data-entry screen module
THe Toolkit consists of a versatile library of general-purpose
subprograms, plus facilities for handling these conveniently in
your program-development cycle.
Other Turbo libraries are available (expensively!), but it seems
that they want to give you all sorts of flash and be everything
for every possible situation, with little regard for program
size. The Toolkit follows the renowned 80-20 principle: deliver
80 percent of the functionality with 20 percent of the code.
The Basic Library contains routines to do most of the low-level,
repetitive stuff that you'd rather not re-invent each time (disk
I/O, screen-writes, type-checked input, etc.). They're all pretty
straightforward, well-tested, and most of them could be readily
duplicated by anyone with a DOS Technical Reference Manual, IF
they wanted to take the trouble.
The Complete Library contains modules for handling windows
(with the same compact, no-frills approach), and modules for
creating formatted data-entry screens, just like the one in Media
Methods' simulation game "Prince." The screen itself can be built
in a very intuitive way with any text editor -- the source text
looks very much like the end product -- and can be compiled into
the program, or kept as a separate file read at run-time.
For those using Turbo Pascal V 3.0 or earlier, there is a system
for managing these source-code routines. The MAKE program reads
your source code, consults a dependency list, and emits a list of
library-routine references in the correct order.
LIBRARIAN then extracts from the library file the routines refer-
enced in the make-list, then puts the routines together in a
single source-file that you can include in your program. You are
free to add routines to the library, and add to or modify the
dependency list.