CD Ware Multimedia 1994 November/Cd Ware (Nro. 2) - Epimundo.iso/DOS/ED/PCKEY.ZIP/EXSIZE1.SCR

Text File | 1993-05-25 | 5.3 KB | 308 lines

:exsize1.scr

if memory 1 ! 8 goto exit
goto start_lesson

:repeat_lesson
bkey r
bkey '

:start_lesson
clear 15

cursor 22 19
print 'Press any key to start lesson 10.
wait -
clear 19 19

clear 15
cursor 2 16
print 'Now we will start with some exercises. This time you won't have all the time
cursor 0 17
print 'in the world to press the right key. I will adjust the speed to roughly how
cursor 0 18
print 'well you have been doing so far.

cursor 2 20
print 'Again the pass rate will be 90% accuracy.

pass 90
if auto ! 0 auto
script - stspeed

script - waitspc
start 2

:again
start 3

clear 15
cursor 9 16
print 'Perhaps the only suprise about Microsoft's Basic
cursor 9 20
print 'strategy 'is that a key ingredient, Visual Basic itself,

cursor 9 16
test -
scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'is a lot more than vapourware, 'Wrote Jeff Tarter in his
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'June 91 Soft letter.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Already people are starting to send me Windows
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'applications for review which didn't exist a mere six
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'months ago. With few exceptions, these are written in
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test -

scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Visual Basic. So perhaps none of them is going to be a
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'commercial success on the scale of Excel or WordStar -
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'so what? There are going to be thousands of them
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'available inside two years.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'A new skill is going to have to evolve: the self
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'advertisement. These programs will have to explain what
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test -

scroll 4 15 22
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print 'they do, and why you need one. This doesn't mean a brief
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'summary along the lines of: 'Entrance: a utility for DOS
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'conversion to Windows of screen blanking override code.'
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test -

scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Software is going to have to sell itself the way
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'detergents get sold on TV - a compelling introduction, a
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'clear explanation of a problem, and a powerful and
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'convincing demonstration of how this is solved.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Visual Basic hasn't recieved quite the ecstatic
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'reception it deserved from observers - and I suspect
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'that this is because they don't know how powerful Basic
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'is.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'Many professional programmers write in C or C++ these
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'days; they are trained in Pascal, and regard Basic as
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Mickey-Mouse was and is.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'The best-known accounting package in the UK, Pegasus,
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'was written entirely in Basic. Pertmaster, for years the
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'best project planning package, was written in Microsoft
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Basic for a CP/M micro. If we start a list here, it will
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'go on for pages. All are powerful, well-crafted and
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'succesfull packages, and couldn't have been written in C
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'because the authors didn't know C.
enter
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'So it is worth reminding yourself, when you pour scorn
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'on the idea of real software written in Basic, that it
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'had already been done on a large scale. And then, count
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scroll 4 15 22
cursor 9 20
print 'the number of experienced Basic programmers who are
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'suddenly freed to produce Windows applications.
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'Microsoft puts the figure in the millions - over two
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scroll 4 15 22
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print 'million at least.
enter
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cursor 9 20
test -

script - sofar
if accuracy 3 < 90 goto again
if key = R goto repeat_lesson
if key = r goto repeat_lesson

memory 1 = 9

clear
cursor 51 7
print '10
script save

if key ! C if key ! c goto exit
clear
keyboard

:exit