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- MEDIA METHODS SOFTWARE
- Now Available
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- ENTERTAINMENT DISK
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- Registered version ($15.00) contains;
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- "Prince," without commercials.
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- "Automata" - Explore cellular automata; Lotus-style interface.
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- "Life" - A very fast version of John Horton Conway's famous
- game, in both text and CGA graphics versions.
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- "NewMusic" - Use a rational notation to write a melody, then
- hear it played by the program.
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- PROGRAMMER'S TOOLKIT (For Turbo Pascal)
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- Shareware version contains:
- Make program
- Librarian program
- Source code for the Basic Library
- Demos for
- Windows
- Formatted data-entry screens
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- Registered version ($20.00) contains:
- Make program
- Source code for Librarian
- Source code for Complete Library, including
- Windows module
- Formatted data-entry screen module
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- THe Toolkit consists of a versatile library of general-purpose
- subprograms, plus facilities for handling these conveniently in
- your program-development cycle.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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