Equipment: Any Computer, Needs NS Basic and Newton to run
Needs: NS Basic and Newton to run
Keywords: NEWTON ALSTYNE SCUBA DIVE CALCULATE CONTEST SOURCE WATER DEPTH
KEYWORDS: NEWTON ALSTYNE SCUBA DIVE CALCULATE CONTEST SOURCE WATER DEPTH
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This is a text file containing the source of the contest winner, you'll need NS Basic to run this, but to view it all you need is a text viewer-Have fun! Oh, and the winner is an AOL member!!!!
The winner of NS BASIC Corporation's first program contest is Richard Van Alstyne of New Brunswick, New Jersey. His program, "Dive", helps scuba divers with the calculations and record keeping needed to make multiple deep dives safely. It takes the Newton to a place no one would dream of taking a notebook computer: the wet, heaving deck of a dive boat.
It was selected because of its good use of a number of NS BASIC extensions: windows, buttons, handwritten input and popup pick lists. The complete listing of the program is at the end of this message.
Richard reports that he's currently putting the finishing touches on a new version of the program, where the results of each dive are saved to a file. He originally wrote the program using QuickBASIC on a PC, and reports the program came over into NS BASIC without a whole lot of trouble. You can
email him at ravajr@aol.com.
Congratulations, Richard! An NS BASIC T Shirt is on its way to you.
Keep you eyes open: we'll be announcing the next contest soon. For more information or to order NS BASIC, call (416) 264-5999 or fax (416)264-5888. As always, we can also be reached on the internet at gh@hookup.net.
