9. Available Shareware & Public Domain Solutions (Part 1)

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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

9.1. PBSOUND for PowerBASIC 3.0/3.2

    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

    no longer available

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...

9.9. SVGA for PowerBASIC

    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

9.12. Special-Power / Special tools for PowerBASIC 2.1/3.0

    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)


(c) 1996/2007 by Thomas Gohel, All rights and bugs reserved
(c) 1996/1997 by Thomas Gohel, Thomas Geiger, Matthaeus Stadler, Stefan Machwirth, english version