                     Thomas G. Hanlin III
                  3544 E. Southern Ave. #104
                        Mesa, AZ 85204



This catalog lists files that are included on my Sampler disks.
The Sampler is available for $5.00 ($1 + $4 p&h).  This listing
is representative, as items are added and removed over time.
If you mention your interests when ordering, I will tailor your
disks accordingly.  Don't forget to specify disk size/capacity.

Foreign orders must be by international money order, traveler's
check, or otherwise payable directly through a U.S. bank.

The Sampler fee does not include any shareware registrations.
You are still expected to register shareware you find useful.

In most cases, registration of a product provides you with the
ability to upgrade to later releases at a reduced rate, as well
as some additional benefit.  This is often in the form of full
source code, in the case of programming tools and libraries.
Prices listed herein do not include the $4 postage & handling.



2MON: Utilities for dual-monitor systems.  Free.

   Utilities include a clock TSR which runs on the mono
   display, a utility to clear the mono display, and a TSR
   which remaps the PrintScreen key-- instead of going to the
   printer, it copies the color display to the mono display.



AABAS: Affordable Alternative BASIC Library.  Shareware ($4).

   This is a good library for people curious about the workings
   of their computer, learning how to use libraries, or
   interested in writing their own assembly language routines
   for QuickBasic.  It is a collection of scores of simple BIOS
   and DOS-related routines written in assembly language. AABAS
   is not as fancy as my other BASIC libraries, but it's quite
   useful in its own right and a great learning tool.

   Source code (MASM 6.0) provided on registration.  Registered
   owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.



ASMWIZ: The Assembly Wizard's Library.  Shareware ($25).

   This is a library of over 175 routines for assembly language.
   The library will work with A86, MASM, OPTASM, and TASM. Only
   tiny model (.COM format) is supported. Routines include text
   displays (machine-level, BIOS, and DOS), graphics (Hercules,
   CGA, EGA, VGA), number base conversions, long integer math,
   file matching and command-line parsing, pseudo-random number
   generation, countdowns and delays, buffered file support with
   critical error handling, environment scanning, ASCIIZ string
   functions, keyboard support, mouse support, sound generation,
   control over Break, loading of BSAVE-format files, and more.

   Source code (MASM 6.0) provided upon registration.
   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.



BASUPD: BASIC Update Library.  Free.

   This library provides routines for QuickBasic 4.x which
   mimic new functions and commands provided by other Microsoft
   BASIC compilers, such as PDS 7.x and Visual Basic for DOS.
   These include disk routines and a powerful selection of time
   and date functions.

   Full source code is included.



BASWIZ: The BASIC Wizard's Library.  Shareware ($35).

   This is a library for Microsoft BASIC compilers: QuickBasic,
   PDS, and VB/DOS.  It contains an equation solver; far string
   support (even for QuickBasic!); powerful file handling, with
   buffering, critical error handling, and sharing support;
   telecommunications for COM1-COM4; memory management and
   pointers; a virtual windowing system without parallel...

   Extensive graphics support is built in.  It handles all
   standard modes: MDA, Hercules (no TSR needed), CGA, EGA,
   VGA, SuperVGA (Tseng 4000 and VESA), Epson-compatible dot
   matrix printers, and HP-compatible laser printers.  Printer
   graphics output can be previewed on the display.  Special
   non-standard VGA modes are included, providing up to 360x480
   graphics in 256 colors on ordinary VGAs.  Fonts, polygons,
   multi-colored text-- it's all in here, and more.

   BasWiz math support will handle even the most demanding
   applications.  It extends BASIC's own math and provides two
   other alternatives: fraction math and BCD support.  With
   BCD, you can have up to 254 digits!  This is no minimal
   four-function BCD package, either.  It includes a wide range
   of support, including many trig functions, constants, and
   conversions.  Equally good for huge and tiny numbers.

   Source code (MASM 6.0 and BASIC) provided on registration.
   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.
   Well over a megabyte of sources!  Great learning aid.



BPP: A BASIC PreProcessor.  Free.

   This utility provides a powerful meta-language for PDS,
   QuickBasic, Visual Basic for DOS, PowerBASIC, and even the
   QBASIC provided with DOS 5.0.  It processes your code before
   the compiler gets to it, allowing conditional compilation,
   underscores within variable names, flexible "include" files
   (which may even contain SUB and FUNCTION definitions), name
   substitutions, and more.  C programmers have had
   preprocessors for years-- now there's one for BASIC too!



EXECOM: EXE-to-COM converter.  Free.

   Like EXE2BIN, this utility converts .EXE files to .COM
   files.  It's smaller and faster, though, as well as offering
   a few additional conveniences.

   Source code (MASM) is included.



EXETOOL: EXE Tool.  Free.

   This program examines .EXE files for validity and can tell
   you whether the .EXE was designed for use with Microsoft
   Windows.  If the .EXE file is determined to be too long, as
   it might be if you got it using an older file transfer
   protocol, you are given the option of truncating it to the
   right size.



IBRARY: Library for the ASIC compiler.  Shareware ($8).

   This library is for ASIC 4.0 and later versions.  If you
   haven't seen ASIC, it's a shareware BASIC compiler which
   provides both command-line and editor/environment support.
   It can produce .COM, .EXE, and .OBJ files.  For more info
   about ASIC, write its author:

      David A. Visti
      80/20 Software
      P.O. Box 2952
      Raleigh, NC 27602-2952

   Ibrary contains some 135 routines which add to the ASIC
   compiler.  It provides support for the full range of color
   graphics modes: SCREEN 1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, N0, and
   N1.  The latter two modes are special 256-color modes which
   provide up to 360x480 on standard VGAs!  A large set of math
   extensions, equipment detection routines, mouse support, DOS
   output, string functions, and other goodies is also
   included.

   Source code for Ibrary (MASM 6.0) provided on registration.
   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.



KEYCTL: Keyboard Control.  Free.

   For AT-class machines only (286, 386, 486, etc), this
   utility allows you to speed up your keyboard (or make it
   less sensitive for kids, etc).  You can also swap the
   positions of the CapsLock and Left Ctrl keys, useful for
   civilizing the 101-key "enhanced" keyboard.

   Assembly language source code (MASM) is included.



LIBWIZ: The Library Wizard's *BASIC Library Manager*.  Free.

   This is a management tool for handling and customizing BASIC
   libraries.  It allows ready creation of subsets of existing
   libraries, automatically resolving any interdependencies for
   you.  Tools for updating and extracting from libraries are
   also included.

   LibWiz is strongly recommended for my BasWiz and PBClone
   libraries, due to the vast number of routines involved.



OBJTOOL: OBJ Tool.  Shareware ($10).

   This must be the ultimate tool for manipulating .OBJ files.
   You can select files for inclusion or exclusion using
   wildcards, time, date, and size comparisons, and even the
   results of a search through the .OBJ file.  View the file's
   stats, rename publics, externals, and default libraries,
   delete default libraries and languages, check for validity,
   repair checksum errors-- ObjTool has it all.  Useful for
   reducing the size of libraries, resolving conflicting
   routine names, patching .OBJs and just snooping around!

   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.



PASWIZ: The Pascal Wizard's Library.  Shareware ($25).

   This is a library for Turbo Pascal and QuickPascal.  It
   provides high-powered math routines, new string support,
   mouse management, music, BCD math, and other routines.

   The math routines provide a numeric expression evaluator
   which allows you to convert equations into numbers at run
   time.  The math capabilities of Pascal have been expanded
   significantly with new trig, inverse trig, hyperbolic trig,
   and other functions.  For the ultimate in numeric precision,
   BCD math is also provided, allowing you to manipulate
   numbers of up to 254 digits-- not just with the basic four
   functions, but trig, square roots, factorials, constants
   with hundreds of digits of precision, etc; formatted output
   can be done to your specs.  You can place the decimal point
   anywhere you want, so this works equally well with very
   large and very small numbers.  String support includes
   compression, encryption, fuzzy comparisons, and other
   goodies.  The music manager works like the BASIC PLAY
   language and BBS "ANSI music".

   Source code (MASM 6.0 and Pascal) provided on registration.
   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.



PBBACK: The PB Backwards-Compatible Library.  Shareware ($25).

   This library is like my PBClone library, but is compatible
   with the full range of QuickBasic compilers: QB 1.0 - 4.5.
   It is much easier to set up than PBClone but does not
   support all newer compiler features and offers some 300
   routines.  See the description for PBClone, below.



PBCLON: The PBClone Library.  Shareware ($35).

   This is a library for Microsoft BASIC compilers: QuickBasic
   4.x, BASCOM and PDS, and Visual BASIC for DOS.  It is the
   successor to my old ADVBAS library.  With over 610 routines,
   this library covers a little bit of everything: mouse and
   joystick support, SoundBlaster, disk wrangling, string
   mangling, keyboard input, equipment detection, graphics, a
   wide variety of display management, directory searching,
   text compression, viewing archive directories (.ARC, .ARJ,
   .EXE, .LZH, .PAK, .ZIP, .ZOO), matrix math, dates, times and
   countdowns, sorts, binary searches, graphics, and... well,
   it's hard to describe such a collection other than to say
   "it's probably in here"!

   Source code (MASM 6.0 and BASIC) provided on registration.
   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.
   Nearly two megabytes of sources!  Great learning aid.



PBCWIN: The PBClone Windows Library.  Shareware (1993: $19.95).

   This is a DLL for use in programming for Microsoft Windows.
   It is oriented specifically towards Visual Basic, but can be
   used with other Windows languages that support DLLs if you
   know what you're doing.  There are 79 routines in the first
   version, including bit manipulation, array initialization,
   PEEK, POKE, and SWAP routines, checksums and CRCs, equipment
   information, string testing, and more.

   Source code (MS C 7.0) provided on registration. Registered
   owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.



PBWIZ: The PowerBASIC Wizard's Library.  Shareware (1993: $25).

   This is a library of some 300 routines for Spectra's
   PowerBASIC 3.0 compiler.  It includes archive viewing (for
   ARC, ARJ, EXE, LZH, PAK, ZIP, ZOO), disk directory viewing,
   256-color graphics modes (320x200 and 360x480 on any VGA,
   more on SVGA or VESA), read and write .BMP pictures, mouse
   and keyboard control, EMS and XMS memory access, equipment
   detection, extended math and string routines, an equation
   solver, ANSI emulation, et al.

   Source code (MASM 6.0 and BASIC) provided on registration.
   Registered owners may upgrade to later versions for $10.



QBWIZ: The QuickBasic Wizard's Library.  Free.

   A collection of routines which allow you to access internal
   variables for QuickBasic 4.x, BASCOM 6.x, and PDS 7.x.  You
   can retrieve the screen mode, display adapter type, DEF SEG
   setting, I/O redirection status, current screen colors, and
   many other useful values.



TEXTRIS: A word game.  Shareware ($7.95).

   Textris is a little like Tetris and a little like Scrabble.
   Random letters fall from the sky.  Fit them together to make
   words for points.  Unused letters remain behind, cluttering
   the arena until at last there is no space left to build new
   words.  Good spelling practice and addictive fun!  Requires
   an EGA, VGA or better display.

   Dictionary editor provided upon registration.  Registered
   owners may upgrade to later versions for $1.



VCLOCK: Video clock TSR.  Free.

   This tiny TSR provides a running display of the time.  You
   may specify screen position, 12 or 24 hours, whether to
   display seconds, the colors to use, and other parameters.
   Two versions are provided-- one for 8088 PCs and one for
   later machines.

   Source code (MASM) is included.
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