Public (software) Library
                             Programming Library

   Descriptions and Compilation Copyright 1994 Nelson Ford ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
  Duplication, reprinting and distribution of these descriptions is restricted.
      See LICENSE.DOC in the PSL_NEWS directory for complete information.

Also see TOOLS and GEN_VID for tools and routines for multiple languages,
including Pascal.


=====Pascal, part 2

CONTENTS:

-----ENCRYPT:   registration program encryption key
-----FONTS:     screen fonts
-----GAMES:     routines, source code for games
-----GAUGES:    display procedure progress
-----GENERAL:   various routines for Pascal
-----GRAPHICS:  graphics routines & tools
-----HYPER:     hypertext
-----KYB_MOUS:  keyboard, mouse, joystick routines.
-----LIBRARY:   various collections of routines/libraries.
-----NUMERIC:   math & stats related routines for Pascal

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-----ENCRYPT:   registration program encryption key

[FLXKEY]
FlxKey 1.1 (McLoughlin, Guy; $15) is a unit that lets you create encrypted
user registration keys for programs.


-----FONTS:     screen fonts

[BIGCHAR]
BigChar (Swisher, Brian F.; $5) is a TP4 unit for writing text to the screen
in large characters. It is primarily intended for writing opening logo
screens.

[CUSTOM]
Custom Characters 1.0 is a set of fonts, bit map animation and PCX images
in VGA text mode to compile with modified Turbo Vision. Requires BP/TP 7,
Turbo Vision 2, and VGA. (Steve Goldsmith, reg. fee: $23)

[EGAFONT]
EGAFont (Williams, Aaron M.; $10) is a set of programs for the easy creation
and editing of EGA/VGA fonts. Several EGA/VGA fonts are included, as are
several related video utilities.

[FREEFNT]
FreeFont (Garey, Michael E.; $0-$10) contains TP units that work together with
the Borland BGI to allow you to display text in any direction with any slant
using BGI stroked fonts.

[NEW_FNTS]
New-Fonts (Pavia, Donald; $?) contains procedures, functions and a utility for
creating your own 8x8 graphics fonts for ASCII characters 128 through 255 to
be used by your Turbo Pascal program. In testing New-fonts, it appeared that
you can also edit the lower ASCII characters.


-----GAMES:     routines, source code for games

[P_ROBO31]
P_Robots 3.1 (Softworks ASP; $25) is a game based on computer programming in
PASCAL. The object is to design and program a robot that can triumph over
similar robots designed and programmed by others in a real-time battle of wits
and flying missiles. You control your robot by writing a procedure in PASCAL
to specify your robot's behavior and strategy in its efforts to vanquish up to
three other robots in a battle to the death.

[SPX]
SPX 1.0 (Ramsay, Scott D.; $30) allows TP programmers to write games in
320x200x256 VGA mode. This library covers animation, sound, text, and various
input devices. It also includes parallax scrolling, tile-map scrolling,
displaying sprites in layers, 3D perspective, automatic implementation of 386
specific code, eight real-time clocks, tilemap maker, font-editor, three
complete games, and seven examples with TP source. (On 1.44MB MegaDisk or CD
only.)


-----GAUGES:    display procedure progress

[STATBOX]
Statbox (Mitchel, Patrick; $0) is a unit for displaying progress of a
procedure. Demos and source included.

[THERM]
Therm (Hood, Doug; $0) is a progress gauge in the form of a thermometer.

[TWAIT]
Twait (Brewer, Ty; $0) provides a way to display a message while the computer
is crunching numbers or processing data, etc.


-----GENERAL:   various routines for Pascal

[ARRAYRW]
Arrays (Warren, Robert; $0) is TP unit that provides support for regular
arrays and huge arrays.

[BASICS]
Basics 1.0 is a library of over 30 BASIC routines coded and compiled for use
by Pascal programmers. (Sierra Consultants, reg. fee: $5)

[DLGDRW]
Dlgdrw (Borland International; $0) shows how to change text and text color,
and send messages in a dialog box.

[FPU]
FPU (Olbrys, Erik; $0) contains four TP functions using BASM to directly
access the 80387/80486. Functions include FARCTAN, FSIN, FCOS, and FTAN.

[JDBTREE]
JDBtree 1.20 (Darling, Jeff; $0) demonstrates how to use Binary trees.
Executable files are also included. Requires TP 5.5. (The author can no longer
be reached at the address provided in the documentation.)

[NULVAR]
Nulvar is a routine to null all variables.

[JANUSW]
tDialogWindow 1.24 is a set of two objects which enable programmers to
create dialogs as MDI child windows, create BorDlgs from standard
resources, and standard dialogs from BorDlg resources. (Peter Sawatzki,
reg. fee: $0)

[UMBHEAP]
UMB_Heap 1.3 (Webb, Brian D.; $10) lets you extend the dynamic heap into UMBs,
giving your programs up to 200K more RAM to work with. TP6 required.


-----GRAPHICS:  graphics routines & tools

[3D120]
3D 1.2 (Loewy Ron and Ishai Ben-Aroya; $10) is a companion to 3DLib.

[3DLIB30A,3DLIB30B]
3DLib 3.0 (HyperAct, Inc. $50) is a Turbo Pascal 3D graphic animation package.
It features fast wire-mesh 3D objects with a macro to Pascal language
translator, support for TP for DOS and TP for Windows, DOS and windows hosted
macro translator and animator, and a new DOS object compiler. Also included is
a C++ library for BC__/BGI.

[BRESN]
BRESN (Deshpande, Chetan; $0) shows how to draw a line using Bresenham's
algorithm, also known as midpoint algorithm. This method is used by AutoCad
and other popular graphic programs.

[BGICLIP]
Clip and ClipShow (Donnelly, Peter; $0-$10) includes two programs to produce
and display BGI clip art for use with PutImage.

[EGALOGO]
EGALogo lets you create smooth scrolling logos for EGA and VGA.

[GIFPAS]
GIFPas (Wenzel, Sean; $0) this unit decodes GIF images in 256 colors at nearly
any resolution.

[GNOOM]
Gnoom (Soumarokov, Nikolay; $0) lets you edit up to ten colorful images,
animate them and use them in Turbo Pascal programs. Two demonstration programs
and Turbo Pascal routines are included. Images can have size from 2 x 2 to 64
x 64 pixels each.

[GR_COL]
GR_COL (Rivers, Jerry; $0) contains routines for using standard text output in
graphics modes.

[GRAFTXT]
Graftxt (Godfrey, Tim; $0) is a set of routines for fast display of text in
graphics mode. Includes 8, 14, 16, and 19 line fonts. It is a faster but more
limited alternative to OutTextXY.

[GRAFXTP]
GrafxTP (Fralix, Jim; $0) is a TP6 unit for graphics handling which provides a
generic graphic container object and procedures to manipulate the object.

[GRPHVGA]
GraphVGA Unit 1.0 (Modern Solutions; $38) is a set of high performance graphic
routines for EGA/VGA that are over six times faster than BGI routines and take
less than 3k.

[GWEDIT]
GWedit 2.01 (Day, Michael; $0) provides a graphics based string input for use
with the Turbo Pascal BGI.

[LINEDRAW]
LineDraw 1.0 (Tim Schempp, reg. fee: $0) is Pascal source code which allows
the programmer to draw lines and rectangles on the screen using the ASCII
character set. The unit automatically detects where lines will intersect,
and replaces the characters at the intersection with the proper character.

[PCXBGI1, PCXBGI2]
PCX2BGI (Balash, Marty; $15) converts all or part of PCX or LBM pictures to
BGI images for use with Turbo C and Turbo Pascal programs. Turbo C programmers
can hard-code smaller graphics into their programs without needing external
graphics files. A C-code generation utility, a utility to remove the header
and a sample program are provided.

[PCXKIT]
PCXkit (Donnelly, Peter; $10) CLIP 1.3 lets you clip images up to 64K from PCX
files in EGA/VGA medium or high resolution.

[PCXPAS]
PCXPAS (Donnelly, Peter; $0) includes two Turbo Pascal units for decoding and
displaying PCX graphics files. It includes Pascal and assembler source code
and sample implementations.

[RMAST37]
Raster Master 3.7 (Blueview Software, reg. fee: $24) lets you easily create
graphics for your TP programs. It can handle graphics up to 100 X 100 pixels in
size with 16 colors and PCX, BMP, BGF, DEF, CON, and Windows ICO format. Other
features include paint program style tools, a zoom mode, and a very slick
graphic user interface. VGA and a mouse are required.

[RU03]
Raster Utilities #3 (Blueview Software, reg. fee: $20) is a set of
programming tools. It includes a screen clipping utility, a
binary-to-source code converter, and a utility for converting PCX/BMP files
to a format usable by putimage. You can build resource file and run scripts
to create graphics.

[RGB]
RGB (Sieraski, John; $0) is TP5 code which illustrates how to use the
SetRGBPalette command from the Turbo Pascal 5.0 Graph unit to create 16 shades
of gray on a VGA graphics card.

[SCHWAZZ]
Schwazz 1.0 (Duncan, Jonathan D.; $0) shows how to manipulate the VGA palette
for dazzling effects.

[SCENEBL]
Scene Builder 1.01 (Rivers, Jerry; $0) is a paint program for Turbo Pascal. A
compilable Pascal source program is produced of the graphic you create.
Drawing tools include lines, polygons, rectangles, circles/ellipses, and arcs.
Other features include flood filling, line styles, snap grid, and zoom
viewing. Requires VGA.

[SDIMAGE]
SdImage 1.03 (Day, Michael; $?) is a Turbo Pascal unit designed to allow
saving any BGI screen to disk. There are 20 image buffers available for use.

[TEGAS]
Tegas 3.0 (BSX International; $5) lets you create and save EGA images for use
with the PutImage procedure.

[TIMAGE]
tIMAGE 1.21 (Sarver, J.H.; $25) creates graphic images in a format compatible
with PutImage. It also generates TP source code for accessing the image.

[TJGRAFX]
TjGrafix 1.0 (Damn Fine Software Solutions; $30) provides routines to let you
take advantage of the 256-color capabilities of the IBM MCGA, EGA, and VGA
within your programs with minimal difficulty.

[TP256D]
TP256D (Thomas Design; $45) contains Super VGA BGI driver for Turbo C and
Pascal that integrates support for multiple SVGA chipsets into one driver.
Supports Video 7, Paradise, ATI, Tecmar, Orchid, Genoa, Compaq VGA, HP VGA,
and STB video cards.

[TPPCX]
TPPCX 1.1 (Rafn, Mark D.; $2) contains a TP 6.0 Object-Oriented unit for
displaying or saving PCX format picture files on Hercules, EGA, VGA, or
compatible adapters. It allows for the hidden page display used in behind the
scenes buffer capturing.

[TPPCX256]
TPPCX-VGA256 1.0 is a collection of objects for use with BP7.0 which
creates and displays 256-color PCX format images up to 1024x768. It handles
large PCX files, clipping, locating and palette functions. Sample programs
are also included. (Mark D. Rafn, reg. fee: $10)

[TVGAS]
Tvgas 2.1 (BSX International; $5) lets you create and save VGA images for use
with the PutImage procedure.

[VGAPAL]
VGAPal 1.0 (RAM Software Development; $10) is a palette control TPU which lets
you fade-in and fade-out and cycle through palette colors. A routine is also
provided for loading 320x200x256-color PCX files.


-----HYPER:     hypertext

[HYPERL]
HyperLINK 1.0 (BGASoft, ASP; $20) is a complete system for adding Hypertext
help to your programs. No special editors or linkers are required.


-----KYB_MOUS:  keyboard, mouse, joystick routines.

[FASTKEY]
FastKey 1.1 (Holley, Steve; $20) is a TP6 unit that provides low-level
monitoring of the keyboard, keeping track of which keys are pressed and which
are not. Sample files included.

[GRABKEY]
GrabKey is sample code that illustrates how to get the scan code of each key
pressed without removing the keypress from the key buffer so that it can be
further processed by the system.

[JOYSTCK]
JoyStck (JonSoft Technologies Inc.; $0) is a Joystick interface for TP.

[MOUSE]
Mouse 3.1 (Day, Michael; $0) is an extensive set of mouse functions for TP5.

[MOUSLI]
MouseLib 8.0 (Loewy Ron; $15) is a Turbo Pascal event driven mouse library. It
supports the standard mouse API, plus extensions for event driven programming,
support for DPMI mode, text, graphic and true VGA cursor. It also includes
DESQview support unit and video hardware support functions.

[MOUSE_TL]
Mousetools (Anderson, Nels ASP; $10) is a set of TP5 programming utilities
providing most of the necessary procedures to use a mouse in your own
programs.

[MOUSETP]
MouseTP5 (Gilroy, T. Russell; $0) is mouse menu support for TP5 using a Mouse
Systems 3-button mouse or compatible such as Genius or Logitech. The Mouse
Systems .MSC source and compiled versions are included.

[MSDEMO]
MSDemo (Landry, Bob; $0) is a simple program which exhibits some of the
capabilities of using an interrupt driven interface to the mouse. It works on
TP 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5. Source code is included.

[OGLE]
Ogle Eyes (Day, Michael; $0) is TP5 code for a routine that watches the mouse
wherever it goes, or any point on the screen. It can show three possible eye
styles on the screen.

[PASMAC]
PasMac 2.0 (Newman, Norman; $15) is a keyboard macro program especially
designed for Pascal programmers.

[SCAN_PA]
Scancode (Anderson, Pat; $0) demonstrates how to add low-level keyboard
handling to your Turbo Pascal programs.

[THEMOUS]
TheMouse (Kwast, Kevin A.; $10) is a set of routines for accessing a
Microsoft, Logitech, or compatible mouse from Turbo Pascal.

[TMOUSE]
TP PD Mouse (Henderson, Ken; $0) is a Mouse to key translation unit (requires
TPRO).

[TPJR]
TP Joystick Routines 3.0b (Howarth, David B.; $0) is a set of TP routines for
joysticks.

[TPRAT5]
TPrat5 1.0 (Smart, J. A.; $0) is a Microsoft-compatible mouse driver to
provide mouse support for Borland's Turbo Pascal 5.0.

[TRANS]
Translat and Keyword (Yoder, Gil ASP; $?) TRANSLAT will allow you to remap
from one to five keys on your keyboard. Source code is included.


-----LIBRARY:   various collections of routines/libraries.

[BOOSTERS]
Boosters (George F. Smith & Company; $19-$35) is a set of routines for Turbo
Pascal programmers. Included is sixty-three assembler-coded routines, screen
generator, example programs, and complete documentation. Boosters supports
string, video, heap, DOS, and special-effects routines in TEXT mode, for any
IBM PC/PS or true compatible.

[FLXLIST]
FlexList (Power SoftWare; $14) provides TP5.5 applications with a generic
hybrid stack-queue-list-array object. There are 31 methods that allow you to
push, pop, insert, delete, sort, store, recall, etc. lists of any type data.

[FUTILS]
FUtils (Kerr, Rex; $20) is a set of TP5.5 units, mostly written in assembler.
Routines included do very fast swapping of variables; fast conversion between
Pascal and C strings and faster Move and FillChar; array-based stack handling;
fast BIOS calls (22 routines); fast screen writing and reading; windowing; and
more. Each unit has many routines in it.

[MISCUNI]
MiscUnit (Moehrke, Geoffrey; $0) is a set of several units written for TP 5.0.
Most of these units require Turbo Professional 5.05 or higher to compile.
Functions include display of an on-screen clock in any program; a simple
method of displaying pop-up message windows; an improved Printer unit; data
entry routines; an easy way to implement stacks or queues of any type; mapping
of I/O error codes to strings; and more. Pascal source code included.

[SWEEPET]
Sweep 1.10 (Tauck, Eric; $10) is a library of routines for managing memory and
maintaining a heap. The advantage of the Sweep Library over the heap routines
built into Turbo Pascal or Turbo C is that the Sweep Library never suffers
from memory fragmentation.

[TOT11A, TOT11B]
TechnoJock's Object Toolkit 1.1 (TechnoJock Software ASP; $90) provides a
comprehensive collection of objects for building sophisticated user
interfaces. It is designed specifically to be used by programmers who are new
to object-oriented programming. It provides the complete source code for 18
units, and includes over 70 example programs. Some of the main tools provided
include Screen and Window Management, Form Input, List Management, Menus,
Directory and File Selection, and much more. Turbo Pascal 5.5 or later is
required, and 640K and a hard disk are recommended.

[T_WHEELS]
Turbo Wheels is a utility function library disk.

[UTIL17]
Utility 17.6 is a TP unit including many useful programming utilities: save
screen, screen input, encryption, DIR, print-screen, date routines,
packkey and unpackkey, screenevent handler, control-alpha keys,
support for B-Tree filer, and more. (Gemini Systems, reg. fee: $0)

[VGAFNT]
VGAFont (Tamburino, Joseph J.; $10) is a set of routines that allow graphics
to be displayed with ordinary EGA or VGA text modes.

[ZROUTIN]
Zroutine 1.1 (Zimmerman, Bob; $0) is a set of TP5 routines you can add to your
programs to sound a beep a specified number of times, get command line
parameters from users, set text color, modify cursor attributes, trim leading
spaces in a string or pad a string, create a window, shell to dos, "press any
key to continue", and much more. Also included are a formatted input routine
and I/O error routines.


-----NUMERIC:   math & stats related routines for Pascal

[BIGNUM]
BigNum 2.01 (Theberge, Stephen A.; $40) is an extensive library of string
mathematics functions for TP4 and TP5. Functions include addition,
subtraction, multiplication, division, square, root, and factorial.

[BFLOAT]
BFloat 1.0 (Ritchey, J. P; $0) will convert a MicroSoft Binary Floating point
number to IEEE extended format. The result can be returned to TP single and
double variables and TP will handle the conversion. Pascal source included.

[CALCTP]
CalcTP (Coleman, Timothy B.; $20-$60) is a unit for TP5 that allows a
programmer to add a pop-up calculator to any application. Included are
illustrative code and several ASCII representations of calculators for
on-screen use.

[COMPLXO]
ComplxOps (Glynn, Earl F.; $0) is a ComplexOps UNIT providing complex
arithmetic and transcendental functions.

[DOLRWRD]
DollarWord (Loew, Rob; $0) is a TP5.5 Unit for converting a number from the
form "###,###.##" to the spelled-out format for check writing. The program
works on number strings from 0.00 to 999,999.99. The source code is included.

[FIN_TP]
Finance (Anderson, Pat; $0) is source code for loan payment and amortization
routines.

[INVTRIG]
InvTrig (RAM Software Development; $0) is a unit that gives the inverse of the
sine, cosine, and tangent functions.

[MATHLIB]
Math Libraries 1.0 (Waldman Sidelines; $25) is a set of math units with math
chip support. The libraries consist of the five transcendental functions plus
nine additional ones.

[MATHPAS]
MathPas (Van Fossan, Richard D.; $0) is a set of transcendental functions for
Turbo Pascal. It handles all trig, exponential, and hyperbolic functions.

[MPI_KSU]
MPI KSU (Research Foundation; $50) is a multiple precision positive integer
arithmetic package. The two versions included in this package handle integers
up to 149 or up to 3029 decimal digits. It is written in Eric Isaacson's A86
assembler for the 8086 series of processors and contains a Turbo Pascal
interface.

[NUM_RECI]
Numerical Recipes Library (Numerical Recipies Software; $0) contains more than
200 source-code Pascal routines for scientific and engineering calculations.
Routines cover integration, linear algebra, differential equations, Fourier
methods, data analysis, statistics, lots of special functions, random numbers,
sorting, root finding, optimization, and more.

[P_MAT]
P_Mat 1.2 (Von Tress, Mark; $5) is recursive matrix algebra routine. It
includes binary operations, inversion, unary operations, and several patterned
matrices.

[PARS7]
PARS7 (Schaaf, Renate; $0) is a set of units to implement real functions of up
to three variables.

[PASWIZ]
Pascal Wizard's Library 1.4 (Hanlin, Thomas G.; $25) is a library for
TurboPascal and QuickPascal that provides high-powered math routines, new
string support, mouse management, music and BCD math. Source code is included.

[REALSTR]
RealStr (Mullen, Rich; $0) is a TP routine that formats a floating point
double, real, or single number into a string, according to the requested
number of significant digits.

[TPSTAT]
Stat (Norton Associates; $35) contains 30 elementary statistical and 19
mathematical subprograms developed to aid in the further enhancement of
scientific Pascal software development.

[VLN]
Very Large Numbers 1.0 (Karl Chase, reg. fee: $0) allows the Pascal
programmer to to work with numbers up to 1000 decimal digits or more. VLN
can also handle numbers to 1* 10 ^ -1000 or smaller as well as add,
subtract, multiply, divide, and perform with roots and powers.