PC PLUS Issue 63 Dec 91

#MEMORY MASTER v1.50       Application
Provided exlusively to PC PLUS by Sharp Software, Memory Master is an incredibly powerful system for dramatically enhancing your memory recall. Dating back to the Ancient Greeks, it has proved itself many times over, during the centuries. Try it out and see how quickly your memory improves!
%R 0 MM.EXE
screen;cls;cd $1;run mm;wait
%V 0 MM.DOC
view $1/mm.doc MEMORY MASTER
%I C:\MM
md $1;spawn $0\MM\MM-PROG
md $1;spawn $0\MM\MM-DOC

#BACKGAMMON                 Board game
Backgammon is an age-old board game that combines elements of both luck and skill, and has a huge world- wide following. And if you've never played before you'll be glad to hear that there's a comprehensive tutorial mode built into the program.  Once you've learned the rules, you'll probably be hooked.
%R 1
screen;cls;run games\bgammon;wait

#BLOX                       Logic game
Every now and again someone comes up with a unique game that usually seems really simple to play and easy to learn. But when you start playing it you find it's actually hard, fiendish and addictive! Just remember to try to make threes out of everything you can.
%R 1
screen;cls;cd games;run blox;wait
%V 1
view games\blox.doc BLOX

#FLICKER KICKER        Display utility
Flicker Kicker is an Innovative TSR that stays in the background doing absolutely nothing at all until, that is, you switch to graphics modes. At this point, if you have a compatible monitor, it inceases the refresh rate, giving smoother and easier to watch displays.
%R 1
screen;cls;run flicker\flicker;wait
%V 1
view FLICKER\FLICKER.DOC FLICKER KICKER

#GOOGLY EYES            Windows shorty
Do you ever get the spooky feeling that someone is watching you? No? Well from now on you will - once you've installed this interesting little progette on your PC. To use it, boot up Windows 3.0, select the File Manager, and select GOOGLY.EXE from the WINDOWS directory on this disk.
%V 1
view windows\googly.txt GOOGLY EYES

#* MAGAZINE FILES...
The '*'s are files to do with or mentioned in articles in this issue.

#* FACT                    DOS utility
FACT lets you change file/directory Read-only, Hidden, System and Archive attributes. So (following on from a Help Screen tip this issue), you could hide important directories from most prying eyes. And you can also use the '?' and '*' wild cards.
%R 1
screen;cls;run utils\fact;wait

#* FINDFILE               File utility
FINDFILE accompanies an answer to a letter in this month's Help Screen. Using it you can search an entire disk for all its files. Or, if you modify the Borland Turbo C source code you could adapt it to find files matching wild-card specifi- cations, attributes or even direc- tories.
%V 1
view utils\findfile.c FINDFILE

#* MACRO MERGE   Lazer printer utility
If you have a lazer printer you may not have realised that you can actually get it to perform Macro sequences for you. This means you can get multiple copies from a single printout. These examples show how to do this from within PROTEXT. See the article in the magazine for details.
%V 1
view macmerge\example.let EXAMPLE.LET;view macmerge\example.add EXAMPLE.ADD;view macmerge\macmerge MACMERGE

#* STAR1.BAS              Aurora Basic
This accompanies the article on Aurora Basic in this month's issue. You will find the file STAR1.BAS in the UTILS directory.
%V 1
view utils\star1.bas STAR1.BAS

#* STARCAL2.BAS           Aurora Basic
This accompanies the article on Aurora Basic in this month's issue. You will find the file STARCAL2.BAS in the UTILS directory.
%V 1
view utils\starcal2.bas STARCAL2.BAS

#* TSR LIBRARY             Programming
This is a complete and fully working library to accompany the feature in this month's magazine on writing your own TSRs using Turbo C. It has all the features you need to turn virtually any program into a ready-to-run, pop up program.
%V 0 TSRLIB.DOC
view $1\tsrlib.doc TSR LIBRARY
%I C:\TSRLIB

md $1;spawn $0\tsrlib\tsrlib;spawn $0\tsrlib\tsrdoc