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- FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1994
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- The information in this catalog may be outdated by the time you are reading
- this -- feel free to contact me directly for the newest copy [see end of file]
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- All software written by me, George Vanous, is preceded with the "!" character
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- THE VGA EDITOR 1.30 is available as !VGAE130.ZIP (released July, 1994)
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- Multi-function graphics editor and animator with full mouse support. THE VGA
- EDITOR creates graphics files that are fully portable into C and Pascal
- programs (with the use of THE BEST LIBRARY). It is a vital tool to graphic
- software programmers and is ideal for drawing pictures and animations. It
- will also read in Windows .ICO files for editing.
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- THE VGA EDITOR 1.30 is available as !VGAE130.ZIP
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- THE BEST LIBRARY 2.31 is available as !BEST231.ZIP (released July, 1994)
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- This 360-function library, written almost entirely in pure assembler, is
- available to C programmers. It is blisteringly fast, especially the VGA image
- routines and the TRUE sprite animation routines, and is easy to use. An
- exhaustive documentation file accompanies this library, as do example programs
- (.EXE and source codes) that demonstrate the THE BEST LIBRARY'S routines.
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- FILE 8 functions TEXT 33 functions
- INI FILE 9 functions ANIMATION 0 functions
- KEYBOARD 42 functions ATTRIBUTE 8 functions
- LINKED LIST 4 functions CHARACTER 16 functions
- MATH 13 functions CURSOR 23 functions
- MATRIX 18 functions GET 5 functions
- 2D VECTORS 17 functions STRING 8 functions
- 3D VECTORS 17 functions WINDOW 4 functions
- MISCELLANEOUS 9 functions VGA 3 functions
- MOUSE 13 functions VGA16 17 functions
- STRING 73 functions ANIMATION 4 functions
- CHARACTER 15 functions IMAGE 1 function
- CONVERSION 4 functions COMPRESS IMAGE 10 functions
- PIXEL IMAGE 7 functions
- PLANE IMAGE 8 functions
- VGA256 2 functions
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- TOTAL: 360 ROUTINES
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- NOTE This library will no longer be updated, since C is being quickly
- replaced with C++. The BESTLibrary++ 1.0 will soon be released, an
- object version of The BESTLibrary 2.31. As of today, it contains full
- support for 2D AND 3D rotation/scaling, timing classes, and text mode
- windowing classes. Look out for it.
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- THE BEST LIBRARY 2.31 is available as !BEST231.ZIP
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- DOS UTILS 1.00 is available as !UTIL100.ZIP (released May, 1993)
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- There are currently five DOS utilities in DOS UTILS 1.00:
- FLOOD COM Fill parts of the screen with color (for .BAT files)
- STRIKE COM Ask for a user response to a choice (for .BAT files)
- KEYBEEP COM Create a "key click" through the speaker
- NUMOFF COM Turn the NUM LOCK key off
- 50LN COM Change display to 50 lines
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- DOS UTILS 1.00 is available as !UTIL100.ZIP
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- THE GAMES I is available as !GAME100.ZIP (released May, 1993)
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- Collection of four game titles, of which only STAR SHARK II works in the
- shareware version. STAR SHARK II can be played by one person or two
- simultaneous people in a competition mode. It is a similiar game to STAR
- SHARK I, but with much-improved graphics, animation, and game play.
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- THE GAMES I is available as !GAME100.ZIP
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- STAR SHARK I is available as !SHARK.ZIP (released May, 1993)
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- A simple single-player game of shoot-the-square blocks. You control a ship
- with the keypad and fly anywhere around the screen, all the while shooting the
- oncoming square blocks.
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- STAR SHARK I is available as !SHARK.ZIP
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- OLD SOFTWARE is available as !OLDSOFT.ZIP (released May, 1993)
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- There are four programs that make up OLD SOFTWARE:
- GOODTUNE EXE Collection of speaker-music called Music Mania I
- MATHPICS EXE Mathematically generated pictures
- MAZETIME EXE Fun action game of Mazetime III
- TRIVIA EXE General-knowledge trivia
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- OLD SOFTWARE is available as !OLDSOFT.ZIP
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- If you have ANY questions or comments regarding programs authored by me,
- George Vanous, call me at (604)589-2675 or write to me at
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- George Vanous
- 8930 Watson Court
- Delta, BC
- V4C 4T6
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