9. Available Shareware & Public Domain Solutions (Part 1)
There are many more Toolboxes, but I just want to present you a few
of the most important.
9.1. PBSOUND for PowerBASIC 3.0/3.2
9.2. HiVGA for PowerBASIC 2.1/3.2
9.3. PBVISION/PRO for PowerBASIC 3.x
9.4. PBCompress for PowerBASIC 3.1
9.5. Personal Protocol/Communication Library for PowerBASIC
9.6. POW! - Sound Blaster Toolkit
9.7. PBGUI Toolkit for PowerBASIC 3.0
9.8. PBWizard
9.9. SVGA for PowerBASIC
9.10. MAXLIB for PowerBASIC
9.11. DWDOOR for PowerBASIC
9.12. Special-Power / Special tools for PowerBASIC 2.1/3.0
9.13. BWSB - Bells, Whistles and Sound Boards
9.14. Public Domain Sourcen von deutschen Programmierern
9.15. Public Domain Sourcen welche oft benötigt werden
Language: German / English
Author : Thomas Gohel
Version : v1.90
Price : 40,-DM/80,-DM / $40/$80 (privat/commercial)
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: PBSOUND
Fido-Request with Magic 'PBSOUND' at 2:2410/330 (33.6 and ISDN)
InterNet: https://www.pbhq.de/pbsound/
File : PBSOUND.ZIP
The recommended Operatingsystem for PBSOUND for PowerBASIC is MS-DOS
in the Versions 5.0, 6.x, 7.0 or MS-Windows 95.
Features:
- support all Creative Labs Sound Blaster models, SB16 and
SB32AWE incl. Upgradeboards such as WaveBlaster I+II and
Roland SoundCanvas SCD10/15
- supports the internal PC-Speaker
- playback from MIDI- and VOC-Files in the background and within
the IDE
- no size limits with VOC-files
- playback/recording up to 44100, Stereo and 16bit with a SB16
or SB32AWE
- support the SBPro/SB16 mixers
- Speechsynthesis with SBTALKER.EXE
- Online-Help for the PowerBASIC-IDE
- PBPLAY, MIDI/VOC-player tool
- PBREC, VOC-recording tool
- PBSPEAK, VOC/WAV player for speaker
- PBW2V, VOC<->WAV conversion program
- with PBSOUND-library & EXE conception!
- You can now create executable PowerBASIC files up to 4GigaByte
with PBSOUND!
- demo & introductoryprogram
- complete with INSTALL & SETUP-Program
- with source:
to programming the CT-VOICE.DRV & the SBPro mixerchip
9.2. HiVGA for PowerBASIC 2.1/3.2
Language: German / English
Author : Matthaeus Stadler
Version : v2.40
Registration fee: 40,-DM
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: Toolkits (Deutschland)
Fido-Request with Magic 'PBHIVGA' at 2:2410/330 (33.6 and ISDN)
InterNet: https://www.pbhq.de
File : HIVGA24B.ZIP (320 KB)
Features:
- fast graphic routines for standard VGA, SVGA and VESA 256-,
32k and 65k colors, automatic VGA Adapter recognition.
- basic graphic routines, splitscreen, scrolling, floodfill,
GetImg, SetImg, sprite routines, bitmap scaling.
- loads and saves PCX-, Targa-, HVS-files.
- linking of bitmaps to the program .exe file.
- mouse routines for all modes, scalable text, fading, color-
cycling, color definition.
- up to 4 pages in 320*200, several pages up to 1600*1200.
- including user defined fonts (until 16x32)
- possible usage of free VGA memory for graphics.
- no functional restrictions in shareware version.
- demo program with sourcecode included.
9.3. PBVISION/PRO for PowerBASIC 3.x
Language: English
Author : Daniel P. Stasinski (published by PowerBASIC, Inc.)
Version : 2.1
Price : $20.00
Supply : http://www.powerbasic.com/files/pub/visndemo.zip
Contents:
- Create SAA-Interfaces with all that is needed
- with Workshop to create Interfaces
- PC-Tools/Norton Utilities Look possible
9.4. PBCompress for PowerBASIC 3.1
Language: English
Author : Greg Turgeon
Version : V1.1
Price : $39.00/$69.00 (without or with Sourcecode)
Supply : PowerBASIC-Filearea: Toolkits (allgemein)
File : PBCOMP.ZIP
Contents: - Filecompression and Decompressionutility
- Statusbar
- compresses to the space MS Compress does
- quite fast
9.5. Personal Protocol/Communication Library für PowerBASIC
Language: English
Author : MarshallSoft Computing
Version : V6.1 (Communication)
V1.0 (Protocol)
Price : $65 (Communication / $40 (Protocol)
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: DFUE, BBS and FidoNet
some BBSes/Filenets (BasNet) in Germany
File : PCL4PB61.ZIP
PPL4PB.ZIP
Contents: a) Personal Protocol Library V1.0 for PowerBASIC:
- XMODEM, XMODEM-CRC, XMODEM-1K, YMODEM, YMODEM-G and
ZMODEM protocols.
b) Personal Comm Library V4.3 for PowerBASIC:
- COM1-COM20, 115.200 Baud, 4 to 20 Ports, 16550 UARTs,
and much more.
9.6. POW! - Sound Blaster Toolkit
Language: English
Author : Tim Gerchmez
Version : V1.0
Price : $39.95
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: Sound Blaster
File : POW!1_0.ZIP
Contents: - Replay of 8bit Samples using DMA
- CMF-Replay using SBFMDRV.COM
- Speechreplay using SBTALKER.EXE
- POW-Library Concept for Samples
9.7. PBGUI Toolkit for PowerBASIC 3.0
9.8. PBWizard
Language: English
Author : Thomas G. Hanlin
Version : V2.1
Price : $99.95 (no Shareware-Version)
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: Toolkits (allgemein)
File : PBWIZ21.ZIP
Contents: - Many additional functions
- replacements of some PowerBASIC-Routines
- Sound Blaster using SBSIM (TSR-Driver needed)
- XMS/EMS Support
- CRC16
- and more and more and more...
Language: English
Author : Stephen L. Balkum and Daniel A. Sill (Zephyr Software)
Version : V2.4
Price : $35.00
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: Grafik (allgemein)
http://www.zephyrsoftware.com
File : SVGAPB24.ZIP
Contents: - Usage of nearly all VGA/SVAG-Modes
- very good in all Modes (really reccomended!)
- Loading of PCX-Files (GIF in older Versions)
- many useful Graphicroutines
- Sprites and much more
9.10. MAXLIB for PowerBASIC v1.2
Language: English
Author : Brian McLaughlin
Info : no longer supported and removed from the market!
File : MAX12A.ZIP
Contents: - Usage of EMS/XMS to save Array's
- I/O-Functions
9.11. DWDOOR for PowerBASIC 3.x
Language: English
Author : James R. Davis
Version : V3.1
Price : $35.00/$65.00 (with printed manual)
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: DFUE, BBS and FidoNet
File : DWDOOR31.ZIP
Contents: - writing DOORS for BBS-Systems
- supports PCBoard, RBBS, QBBS, GAP, Widcat v2+3, WWIV,
SPITFIRE, Ultra BBS and others...
- Full ANSI and FOSSIL-Support
Language: German / English
Author : Stefan Machwirth
Version : v1.10
Price : $ 36.- (38,- DM within Europe)
Supply : Mailboxes, The german Basic Network (BasNet)
PowerBASIC filearea: Toolkits (Deutschland)
InterNet: http://www.snafu.de/~pbsound/
File : SPPOWGER.ZIP / SPPOWENG.ZIP
Features:
* DDESWAP 2.1:
- extended SHELL-command; reduces the need of memory of a
program to 1.4 kB while running other EXEs
- returns errorlevel
- supports recursive starts of EXEs
- DDE-functions for data-exchange between DOS-programs
- configuration either with TSR-usage or as runtime-version
* DLZV 1.1:
- data-compression with high-level interface for your sources
* CRYPT 1.0:
- password-protection with an one-way-method
- encodes strings and whole files
- no need for debug-protection
- not to crack except with very special brute-force-methods
* BASXREF 1.32:
- free crossreference-tool to check your sources
* MERGE-N-SORT 1.01:
- high-end sorting-tool with source
- assorts fixed-length (random-) files and textfiles
- assorting by several fields in ascending or descending order
9.13. BWSB - Bells, Whistles and Sound Boards
Language: English
Author : Edward T. Schlunder
Version : 1.20
Price : $30/$50 (normal/with ASM Sourcecode)
Supply : PowerBASIC filearea: Sound Blaster
Internet: http://earthvision.asu.edu/~edward/index.html
File : BWSB120A.ZIP (326 KB)
BWSB120B.ZIP (517 KB)
Contents: - Moduleplayer (S3M, MOD, 669, ULT, MED, FAR STM) for
PowerBASIC
- Suppots GUS, Sb1.x, SB2.x, SBPRO, SB16 & PAS
- All routines in 386-Code (OBJ-Files)
- also usable by QB, PDS, TP, C, C++ and ASM
Available Shareware & Public Domain Solutions (Part 2)