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PBClone 2.2, 04/26/93:
** The FReadLn routine has been renamed to FReadLine to
avoid conflict with a BasWiz routine. **
The most exciting addition to this version of PBClone is
SoundBlaster support. The SBSIM driver (which comes with
the SoundBlaster) is required. Direct BIOS joystick access
is also now provided, in case you're not satisfied with
BASIC's built-in joystick support. A set of efficient
shuffling routines for arrays and strings is included for
use with games and simulations. Access to the SMARTDRV disk
cache info is provided for SmartDrive 4.0 and later.
PBClone has gotten so large, it's become difficult for
people to download at lower speeds or copy to low-density
disks. The Right Solution, of course, is to get a better
machine. Since this is may not be a practical solution for
everyone, I am splitting PBClone into two archives for
distribution: PBC#A for docs, PBC#B for everything else. The
"#" is the version number, so it's PBC22A and PBC22B for the
current release. I hope this doesn't cause undue confusion.
My thanks this edition go to Bruce Guthrie, as always, for
his many comments and suggestions; to Jeff Sabatini, for
tracking down and killing an elusive bug in FileCopy; and to
Clifton Hodges, for tracking down and fixing a problem in
DInput. These good gentlemen have been awarded free updates.
The ADD4DOS.BAT file has been renamed to ADDFILE.BAT.
PLAYVOC.BAS has been added to demo SoundBlaster support.
Fixes:
BoxMenu and BoxMenu1 screen restore, DInput exit, ScrRest
and ScrSave DECLAREs, archive routines with far strings,
CopyFile and FileCopy error handling, FileCopy root
directory handling, DXQPrint and CRC1 far string
versions, CheckShare and CheckShare2% more robust.
Improvements:
Archive routines (ARJ self-extractors)
BoxMenu1 (select/unselect all items)
DXQPrint (more than 255 rows)
NameCase, NameCase2$ (more adroit handling of digits)
Weekday1 (shortcut for today's date)
Additions:
Bickel2, CheckCAS, CreditCard, CRC32Calc, CRC32Done,
CRC32Init, Cylinders, DblSpace, FormatPhone,
GetLogiDrive, Heads, JButtonA1, JButtonA2, JButtonB1,
JButtonB2, JButtons, JPos, LClickLoc, MatShuffleD,
MatShuffleI, MatShuffleL, MatShuffleS, MatShuffleSt,
MClickLoc, RandFile, RClickLoc, RndI, SBFreeHandles,
SBFreeXMS, SBGetActive, SBGetDrivers, SBGetVer,
SBGetVolume, SBInt, SBInitSrcFile, SBInitSrcXMS,
SBIsFree, SBLoadXMS, SBMapMIDI, SBPause, SBPlay,
SBResume, SBSetVolume, SBStatus, SBStop, SDFlush,
SDGetVer, SDRCached, SDReset, SDStats, SDWCached,
SetMatD, SetMatS, ShowBMP, ShuffleSt, ValidSt,
VerticalPrint
PBClone 2.1, 01/12/93:
*** WARNING ***
Note that the Num2Phone and Phone2Num functions rely on the
current format of phone numbers, which is apparently going
to change in a year or so. You are advised not to use these
functions, as they will not be reliable with the new setup.
The registration fee for PBClone has been raised to $35.
New releases will be coming out less often-- perhaps once or
twice per year-- since the library has become too large for
casual updates.
My thanks, this edition, to Bruce Guthrie and Raymond T.
Schwarz for bug reports and wise suggestions. They have
been awarded free upgrades.
The order form has been renamed from REGISTER.TXT to
ORDER.FRM, since that seems to be a more common convention.
Also, CREATE.BAT has been renamed to MAKEDEMO.BAT.
Some of the DECLAREs were not compatible with VB-DOS due to
use of VB-DOS reserved words. Thanks to Douglas E. Carr for
bringing this to my attention-- it has been fixed.
In the interest of keeping the size of the PBClone archive
manageable, the .EXE versions of the demo files have been
removed. Use MAKEDEMO.BAT to make them after installing the
PBClone library as explained in PBCLONE.DOC.
Fixes:
Any2Dec, FileCopy, ForceMatch, GrafPrint docs, HiByte
DECLARE, LoByte DECLARE, Month0 far string version,
PSortSt, SInput, SSrch, StripSpaces for trim left,
WindowMan4 top line.
Improvements:
Any2Dec converted to asm.
CenterSt converted to asm.
FindFirstA now supports the new PKZIP 2.0 "deflated"
format, and can read ZIP2EXE self-extracting files.
IdentifyFile covers more file types.
Additions:
BoxMenu, BoxMenu1, CheckSum2, Command2, DataSeg2,
DReadAbs, DReadAbsBig, DWriteAbs, DWriteAbsBig, FileMenu,
FLock, FUnlock, FromPostal, GetMemBox, GetPrtSc, GetPSP,
IStrNB, MMCheck2, PrintBox, ReadScreen, RotateL,
RotateLL, RotateR, RotateRL, SCrunchSS, SetLogiDrive,
ShowIcon, ToPostal, TVIdle, UnSCrunchSS
PBClone 2.0, 10/19/92:
From AdvBas to PBClone, I've kept a registration price of
$25 for the last seven years. What was a good deal for a
library of some 100 routines turned into a ludicrously low
price for the 525+ routines in PBClone, however. In order
to scale the price back to a mere outrageous bargain, I am
raising the registration fee to $35 as of January 1, 1993.
Special thanks to Bruce Guthrie for his many suggestions and
attentive bug reporting, which have been of great benefit to
PBClone on a continuing basis. Kudos! (AND a free update!)
My BasWiz and PBClone libraries had a name conflict: both
contained FOpen and FClose routines. To resolve this, I've
renamed the PBClone versions to FOpen1 and FClose1.
Instructions are now included for creating a PBClone library
for use with the Visual Basic for DOS compiler.
Among the new additions are file routines for numeric I/O,
get/set individual palette values, convert a numeric ASCII
code to uppercase, read 4DOS-style file descriptions, get
mouse info, center a string, get CPU speed, and others.
A number of routines have been converted from BASIC to ASM.
This has caused changes in the DECLAREs for the following
routines:
GetScreen, InitPtr, PutScreen
A mistaken assumption about far string handling caused
problems with many far string routines. These have been
fixed. Note that since far string support was added to the
shareware version of PBClone as of v1.9, these routines have
not been tested in use as much as the near string routines,
and I expect more bugs will probably settle out within the
next few releases. If you run into any problems, tell me!
The ArcView demo program now works smoothly with archives
containing filenames that include path specifications.
Fixes and improvements:
DriveSpace& and DrvSpaceL recognize invalid drives.
IdentifyFile recognizes many more file types.
ObjScan now screens out VB-DOS internal symbols.
SubExist and SubExist2% now screen out wildcards.
Upcase1 now uses National Language Support if it can.
Additions:
BRead, BWrite, CenterSt, CPUSpeed, FDescRead, FReadLn,
GetMouseVer, GetTick, GetVGAColor, IRead, IWrite, LIRead,
LIWrite, LRead, LWrite, SetVGAColor, UpcaseI, UpcaseI1
PBClone 1.9, 07/27/92:
The source code for the PBClone routines which are written
in BASIC is now included in the shareware version. A set of
near and far string libraries for the assembly language part
of PBClone is also included. This allows you to create a
PBClone library for QuickBasic 4.x and PDS 6.0-7.1, rather
than just for QuickBasic 4.5 as in previous versions.
Fixes and improvements:
Elapsed & ElapsedTime$ allow times that cross midnight.
FileCRC is much smaller and faster.
FindFirstA can now scan self-extracting LHARC archives.
PCDat$ works properly with far strings.
Processor & Processor2% can now identify 80486 CPUs.
StrUsqu2 and StrUsqu3 now support far strings.
SubExist & SubEx