The ABC Packet for March 1997 (Released March 1, 1997) ** 1000+ snippets milestone was reached on this day! ** (From September 1995 Thru March 1, 1997 = 10 Issues) FACTOIDS (How long have you been using the ABC Archives?): ----------------------------------------------------------- Did you know... Jeff Shantz was the first ever contributor via e-mail! Mike Beckman's home page was the first ever official ABC Home Page. Approx. 1/4 of the total number of snippets are in GRAPHICS.ABC Approx. 1/4 of the total size of the ABC Archives are GAME related. There are 123 total PowerBASIC snippets in the ABC Archives so far. Average # of snippets per issue = 110 Average size per issue (Approx) = 1Meg (Unzipped) Who did not know that... I have never released a packet (yet) without including one (or more) of my own source code. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Files List (ABC9703.ZIP) ------------------------ ABC9703.CDE - Contains the index files and ABC Packets ABC9703.UPD - Reference file to extract the .CDE ABC9703.TXT - You're viewing it. Please copy the above files to the directory where The ABC Reader resides ** Run your reader to extract the *.ABC & *.IDX files from ABC9703.CDE Requires The ABC Reader ABC Home Pages: http://charlie.simplenet.com/abc/abchome.html http://145.89.78.151/~excel/pbabc.html http://www.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca/~voxel/ Other sites: http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/msdos/basic.html ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/basic BBS Support Sites: Basic Technologies BBS +371 2564818 Riga, Latvia, Europe SysOp: Pavel Veretennikov Software: Wildcat! Computer Creations BBS 1-360-698-3610 Keyport, Wash., USA SysOp: Scott Turchin Software: Renegade Digital Dementia BBS 1-403-347-1830 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada SysOp: Cam Spowart Software: ProBoard This month features (137 Snippets) ADDRESS BOOK, ACCESSING EMS/XMS IN QBASIC, DRAWING BEZIER CURVES, MODIFYING FONTS IN PB, ANSI TO .COM OUTPUT, GUI BUTTONS W/MOUSE SUPPORT, WETSPOT, MULTI-LANGUAGE CALENDAR ROUTINE IN PB, GET PRINTER STATUS, CHECK IF WINDOWS IS RUNNING, INTERRUPTX IN QBASIC, MATH FUNCTIONS, SPRITE MASKING, FLAT MODEL FOR QB/PB, TEXT RITE (EDITOR), FONT PUT DEMO, QB ENHANCED DRAW, 3D ENGINE W/TEXTURE MAPPING, SMART CHECKERS GAME, ROTATING SPHERE OF FIRE, ANY SIZE GIF VIEWER, UPDATED BLAST! LIBRARY, A NEW QB 3D RAYCASTING ROUTINE, XMS IN QBASIC, WINDOWS LONG FILENAMES, 3D VECTOR BOB DEMO, SOME LIBERTY BASIC SOURCE CODE, AND MUCH MUCH MORE! Thanks to all contributors and a special thanks to: Charles Quante & Marc van den Dikkenberg for setting up the pages. Pavel Veretennikov, Scott Turchin, Cam Spowart, and Thomas Gohel for their BBS Support. Thanks to all! Andrew L. Ayers Gunther Ilzig Charles Quante Tyler Barnes Zack Johnson Glenn Reed Matt Bross Terence Jordan Peter Scatliffe Shaun Burnette Nathan Kerr Erika Schulze Dan Campbell Nicholas Klaebe Uncle Shackles Jay Cook Nick Kochakian Byron Smith Colin Davis Brian Mahocker Harry Stok Marc van den Dikkenberg Chris McKenzie Mike Taylor Steven Edwards Angelo Mottola Bradley Wagner Rick Elbers Dave Navarro Jeff Ward Jim Emptage Tom Nelson Mark Warner Kevin Fowlks Mark Otter Ryan White Reinder Glas Angelo Ken Pesce Craig Wright Carl Gundel Marek Piotrowski Egbert Zijlema Carl Elias Holmlid Cheng-ning Pu Matt Zuchowski Please contribute by sending in your source codes to: William Yu Some submission notes (Greatest to Least concern): 1. .EXE's or .COM's will be trashed! So don't send any. 2. If you have source code pertaining to BASIC, then please e-mail me with your contribution. (ie. QB/QBasic/PDS/PB/ASIC/VBDOS/LibertyBASIC) 3. Please try to include your name (real one, and not your dad's, etc.)! 4. If you don't want your e-mail listed, please tell me! 5. File attachments prefered but not a requirement. Next ABC Issue: May 1, 1997