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Information about “ARMADA UTILITIES”
A collection of PC utilities for use in wordprocessing, printer control,
screen display and electronic music composition.
The utilities are:
~ ALTPAGE lets you print on both sides of a page by splitting an ASCII
file into two separate files while allowing you to specify the
page-lengths.
~ AUTHOR performs the functions of both ALTPAGE and PRINTIT while giving
you a notepad, a quick text viewer, a typewriter emulator, a WordStar to
ASCII converter, and a quick directory viewer.
~ BOOTFIX and RB1000 give Tandy 1000 users means for speeding up the
rebooting of their systems.
~ CASE changes an ASCII or WordStar file into all upper- or lower-case
characters.
~ CASIOID generates a random text patch for the Casio CZ-101 or CZ-1000
synthesizer.
~ CRLF converts the carriage return of an ASCII file into a carriage
return plus a linefeed or vice versa.
~ CRT31 changes the screen colors.
~ CURSOR changes the size and blink rate of the cursor.
~ DOCMAKER creates an executable .COM file from an ASCII file. You will
be able to read an existing file and edit it, display the text and
change the screen colors. Super fast display of single screens. Great
for batch file use.
~ FRQCNV4 prints musical staff paper, converts a frequency to the
nearest musical note and vice versa and can change one key to another.
~ FXPRNT is a set-up utility for an Epson-FX or Brother printer.
~ MIDIPOP pops up tables showing a list of MIDI commands in hex and
decimal for programming the MIDI synthesizer.
~ PRINTIT is a companion file to ALTPAGE and page formatting printer
which sets margins, lines per page, headers and page numbers.
~ TSRMAKER, similar to DOCMAKER, can also retain the file in the
background for a pop-up display when you want it.
ALTPAGE.DOC
ALTPAGE2.ARC PRINTIT!
NOTE!! PRINTIT! is no longer included in the archive with ALTPAGE
since I've had people express a desire to use their own formatting
utility to print the Odd/Even files. Also, PRINTIT! has been rewritten
to be a general use formatting utility that allows the user to set the
margins at the top, bottom and left edge and determine the number of
lines per page that are printed. ALTPAGE now allows you to set the
number of lines/page so you must remember the count and enter it into
PRINTIT! when you do the actual printing.
Version 2.1 - November 7,1986
This new release has some assembly language routines included that
help to speed up processing, mostly in the screen handling
areas...also cleared up a minor bug with the Title page that only
appeared at certain times. A CGA adapter (or equivalent such as T1000)
is recommended...the new code makes a lot of ROM BIOS calls so close
compatibles are needed to use the new version.
Alternate Page Print Utility v2.1
This is the new release version of a utility that will allow you to
split up an ASCII text file and print it on both sides of your printer
paper, thereby cutting paper costs in half!
This program is released as Shareware; it is the copyrighted property
of Armada Software and is for private, non-profit use only. It may
not be sold, combined or packaged with other programs without express
written permission from ASL.
How to use ALTPAGE
==================
Start by running the Altpage.com program. It will ask for the name of
the file that you wish to split up into even and odd pages. You must
give a valid filename (drive:filename.ext) or this version of the
program bombs out. If the input filename is okay, the program will ask
for the drive to write the 'split files' onto....for example A or A:
are valid drivenames. Altpage then begins working and divides the file
into 56 line sections and creates two new files called ODD.TXT and
EVEN.TXT. There must be room for these two files on your drive or
we'll bomb out again! Assuming that everything is done correctly, you
now have the text divided and ready to print.
Printit.com is provided to allow you to correctly print the even and
odd pages. The ODD.TXT file MUST be printed first (well I designed it
that way but it might work the other way too). Start with the print-
head at the very top of the paper. A margin of 5 lines at the top and
5 lines at the bottom will be automatically provided. Printit will
output 56 lines of text in addition to the margins for a total of 66
lines per page.
After ODD.TXT is printed, remove the paper from the printer (allow an
extra sheet at the bottom in case the even pages run slightly longer
than the odd) and flip the paper over and reinsert it into the prin-
ter. Again, make sure that the printhead is at the top of the page and
run Printit, this time specifying EVEN.TXT as the file to be printed.
When the printout is complete, you will have printed your text file
using both sides of the paper.
Remember, this program only works with straight ASCII text files. Some
word processors write their output in a special format or set the
parity bit (7) for special functions. If you think that your file may
contain graphics or other characters with the high bit set, I suggest
that you run your file through the STRIP2.COM program that is included
with this release of ALTPAGE. It will remove formfeeds and convert all
characters with the parity bit set to a printable form...and its FAST!
To use the strip program, run it in the following manner:
STRIP2 < d:infile.ext > d:outfile.ext
D: is the drive letter (optional) and infile.ext is the filename and
extention of the file to be stripped while outfile.ext if the name of
the new file that you will be creating that will be in ASCII form. Now
use ALTPAGE on the stripped file to split your text into even and odd
pages.
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for Altpage.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
BOOT.DOC
BOOT.COM v1.1 9/7/87
by
Jack A. Orman
This short machine language program will perform a warm boot
on your system in order to avoid the lengthy delay caused
when the computer checks all available memory as happens
when the computer is first started.
Proper syntax is: BOOT WARM or boot warm
or
BOOT COLD or boot cold
A cold boot, of course, will go through the memory check and
included in the program for completeness.
This version corrects a booting error that happened on some
machines and a syntax error in the command parsing.
BOOTFIX.DOC
BOOTFIX.SYS
by George A. Stanislav
BootFix is a device driver for Tandy 1000. I was not even aware of the
fact that interrupt 19h (warm boot) works on the Tandy 1000. Whenever I tried
to issue this interrupt, it locked up my system.
Then I read Quick Boot, by Dave Rowell, in the May 1987 issue of 80 MICRO.
He published a device driver called REBOOT.SYS which makes Tandy 1000 to have
a warm boot whenever Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed. A warm boot as opposed to the
cold boot does not go through the initial checking. Therefore, a warm boot
is immediate, while a cold boot takes 16-20 seconds.
In his article Dave Rowell explained why interrupt 19 fails so often
on the Tandy 1000: If a memory resident program intercepts an interrupt and
changes its address, a warm boot will have that interrupt address point to
a random place in the memory which leads to a lockup of the system. His
driver saves the addresses of all the interrupts before they are changed.
When you hit Ctrl-Alt-Del, the driver restores the original interrupt address
table and issues interrupt 19 for the warm boot. That's why his driver has
to be installed as the first device in config.sys - oh well had to up untill
now.
I decided to take Dave Rowell's idea one step further and wrote a device
driver which too saves the original interrupt table. Then it intercepts inter-
rupt 19. If a program issues int 19, my driver will restore the original
interrupt address table and issue int 19 one more time. This time, as its
address was restored with the other interrupts, int 19 will do what it is
supposed to do: warm-boot the computer.
The main reason for writing this device driver was the fact that I am
running an Opus bulletin board. If any of the support programs of my BBS
(or even Opus itself) want to reboot the computer (e.g. watchdog) by issu-
ing int 19, the computer would lock up and the board would be down.
With the driver installed, the computer will reboot and restart the
bulletin board from autoexec.bat. That way I can go on vacation trusting
that two weeks later I will find my bulletin board up and running.
Another advantage of BOOTFIX.SYS is that during warm boots the
system time remains unchanged. The date is lost (can be reentered),
but the time of the day is preserved. I wished I had it before I got
my battery backed up clock! Bulletin boards are time driven, so preserv-
ing the time at warm reboot maybe the most important reason why you
install this driver.
As I am not running the only Tandy 1000 Opus bulletin board, I am
releasing my driver for public use. I am sure that other Tandy 1000 owners
will find it useful as well. Some programs issue interrupt 19 when they
get into a blind alley. Others do when they think their copy protection
scheme was violated. Some older programs may issue int 19 just for the
fun of it whenever they are finished.
BOOTFIX.SYS is my first step in developing a FOSSIL driver for the
Tandy 1000. A FOSSIL driver is expected to be able to reboot the computer
either in the cold or the warm way. My FOSSIL driver will be able to do
either. BOOTFIX.SYS was my "study" part of developing the larger driver.
How to use BOOTFIX.SYS? It has to be installed as a device in the
config.sys file like this:
device=[drive:][\path\]bootfix.sys
I have mine in my opus\util directory on drive c:. As I boot from
drive c:, I do not need to mention the drive. This is what is in my
config.sys:
device=opus\util\bootfix.sys
Now, the ABSOLUTELY IMPORTANT thing is that this driver M*U*S*T
be installed before any other driver, including Dave Rowell's REBOOT.SYS.
You may be using drivers like ANSI.SYS, KEYCNVRT.SYS, BRK.SYS etc. All these
must be installed after BOOTFIX.SYS. The reason is that most likely these
drivers change the address of an interrupt. If BOOTFIX.SYS were loaded after
any of them, it could not save the original interrupt address table.
If you use Dave Rowell's REBOOT.SYS on your Tandy 1000 together with my
BOOTFIX.SYS (a combination I highly recommend), REBOOT.SYS no longer has to
be the first device installed. As long as BOOTFIX.SYS is the first device
installed, REBOOT.SYS can be anywhere following (before or after any other
drivers, e.g. ANSI.SYS). In that case, REBOOT.SYS will restore a wrong inter-
rupt table. That however does not matter, as REBOOT.SYS ends by calling int 19
which will be fixed with BOOTFIX.SYS.
I tested BOOTFIX.SYS on two Tandy 1000 computers, one was an older one
(the original Tandy 1000). The other one was a Tandy 1000 A. I tested it
with 3 versions of DOS: MS-DOS 2.11 which came from Tandy, PC DOS 3.10 (the
IBM version) and "generic" MS DOS 3.20. With all three versions BOOTFIX.SYS
worked with no difficulties.
I tested it after I loaded several memory resident programs including
the "famous offenders" PRINT and SIDEKICK. Issuing int 19 resulted in an
immediate warm reboot. Issuing the same interrupt under the same circum-
stances but without BOOTFIX.SYS installed resulted in the lock-up of the
system.
One final note to novice users: A device driver is installed at the
boot time. That means after you add device=bootfix.sys into your
config.sys you have to reboot to install it for the first time.
I have enclosed a test program INT19.COM which does nothing but
issuing interrupt 19. You can type INT19 from the DOS prompt. If it
locks up your computer (which is likely), you need BOOTFIX.SYS. If it
reboots the computer and does not lock it up, you can do well without
BOOTFIX.SYS. The program is meant for Tandy 1000 users only. I do not
know if other PC's need it or could use it. You can test it with INT19.COM
if you wish. If you find out that this program helps on other computers,
please let me know. I can be reached on my bulletin board (you need a
modem to call it) at (412) 571-0472. You can probably send me a message
from any Opus bulletin board. Just make sure it is addressed to 129/39.
CASIOID.DOC
Casioid - Random Patch Generator
Version 1.0
Copyright 1987 by Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
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* What is Casioid?
It is a program that will generate a random text patch for the
Casio CZ-101 or CZ-1000 synthesizer using a preset array of parameters
that ensures that no invalid settings are chosen.
* What kind of computer?
This is an IBM PC or compatible program. It makes a lot of BIOS
calls and assumes that you have a CGA card for your video. If your
video adapter card does not follow the strict IBM memory table then
the printout and file save functions may not work properly; however,
you can always hit the PrtScr button to get a screen dump to your
printer. Besides the IBM PC, it has been tested on a Tandy 1000, 3000
and Leading Edge and found to work properly.
* Do I need a MIDI interface?
No, this program is not a patch librarian but instead generates a
text file that must be entered manually into the CZ patch memory.
* How does it work?
It's very simple...start the program by typing in the name and
wait for the graphics and title screens to finish running. You will
see a full screen display of the operating parameters for the CZ. Each
time you hit the number '1' key, a new random patch is generated. Once
you see something that you like, hit number '2' for a printout. The
program tests your printer to make sure that it is on-line and that it
has paper in it. Hitting the number '3' key will cause the patch that
is currently on the screen to be dumped to a disk file with the name
"CZ_?.PAT" where the ? is a digit from 0 to F, for a total of 16
patches that can be saved at one time. There must be enough disk space
in the current directory for the files. Each patch is about 2050
bytes. A file that has been saved to disk can be printed by giving the
DOS command: "Copy CZ_?.PAT prn". The patch will be sent to the
printer properly formatted exactly like the screen. Number '4' will
cause the program to end.
* Does it take a long time to generate a random patch?
NO! This program uses a lot of machine language subroutines to
speed up the process and can generate a random patch almost before
your finger leaves the key.
* What does it cost?
This program is copyrighted and is for the private, noncommercial
use of individual musicians. It may not be sold, alone or bundled with
other software, without written consent of the author. But for the
individual user it is FREE!
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for Casioid.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
CRLF.TXT
CRLF.com version 1.1
by
Jack A. Orman
Copyright 1988
This program is used to process a text file that is
stored in ASCII format and converts all of the carriage returns
($0D) into carriage return/line feed pairs ($0D,$0A). This is
necessary for the files to be displayed properly on many word
processors. Files created by Macintosh word processors (and others)
often use a carriage return only.
Proper syntax for using CRLF.com is:
CRLF <d:readfile> <d:writefile> <ENTER>
where d: is the drive and an optional path, readfile is the name
of the ASCII text file to be read, and writefile is the name of the
ASCII text file that you wish to save the converted file to. If the
writefile already exists, CRLF will write over it with no warning.
Note: DO NOT use CRLF for files that are larger than 62k bytes.
Break larger files into sections that are less than 62k and
process them separately.
CRT.DOC
10/29/88 CRT v3.1
by
Jack A. Orman
ARMADA SOUND LAB
BOX 858
Southaven, MS 38671
CRT is a small machine language program that allows you to change the
border, background and foreground colors. There are three subroutines
in CRT. They are:
BORDER - which sets the border color.
CLEAR - which clears the screen and sets new foreground
and background colors.
COLOR - now just as fast as Clear but it does not wipe the
text off the screen as it changes attributes.
MONO - which allows you to set the mono screen
to a new attribute
The color set values for the CGA video system are:
0 - black 8 - dark gray
1 - blue 9 - light blue
2 - green A - light green
3 - cyan B - light cyan
4 - red C - light red
5 - magenta D - light magenta
6 - brown E - yellow
7 - white F - bright white
To use CRT to set a mono screen, you would use:
CRT MONO parm1 parm2 <ENTER>
where parm1 is the foreground and parm2 is the background.
valid options for mono are:
MONO 7 0 - for a normal screen
MONO 1 0 - for all underlined characters
MONO 0 7 - for reverse video characters
MONO F 0 - for bright characterson a black screen
To use CRT to set borders, you would run it as follows:
CRT BORDER parm1 <ENTER>
where parm1 is one of the color set values from the chart above.
To use the other features, type in one of the following:
CRT CLEAR parm1 parm2 <ENTER>
or
CRT COLOR parm1 parm2 <ENTER>
where parm1 is the foreground color that you wish to use and parm2 is
the background color.
As an example, to clear the screen and set the colors to green text on
a black background, you would use:
CRT CLEAR 2 0 <ENTER>
There must be only one space between the command and the parameters.
I hope that you get lots of use out of this small utility and let me
hear your comments or suggestions for improvements.
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for CRT31.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
On Compuserve to 72261,677
CURSOR.DOC
CURSOR.COM
Copr. 1988
by
Jack A. Orman
This a short machine language program that controls the size and blink
rate of the cursor that is displayed on the screen. It is activated by
entering the program name followed by the cursor type:
CURSOR [type] <Enter>
Valid cursor types are:
======================================================================
FAST - Blinking at 1/16 of the vertical field rate.
SLOW - Blinking at 1/32 of the vertical field rate.
ON - Same as FAST, this is the normal default cursor.
OFF - Invisible cursor.
BLOCK - A large solid slow-blinking cursor. Seven scan lines tall.
HALF - A solid blinking cursor about 1/2 the size of the block.
LINE - A thin single-line blinking cursor.
MONO - A normal cursor for monochrome adapters.
MBLOCK- A block cursor for mono adapters.
The Motorola 6845 CRT controller chip that is inside the PC (and
compatibles) supports a non-blinking cursor mode but that is not
possible to set due to the hardware implementation in most machines. A
modification to the circuitry around the 6845 would be necessary. My
guess is that address line RA4 (pin 34) of the 6845 should be con-
nected but that's just conjecture.
7-25-87
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for Cursor.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
On Compuserve to 72261,677
DOCMAKER.TXT
DOCMAKER v1.2
by
Jack A. Orman
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
What is DOCMAKER?
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This program will create an executable .COM file out of a
text file of 24 lines of 80 characters each. This fast
operating program can then be used as a stand-alone screen
display or put in a batch file to greatly speed-up text
writing.
Features!
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* Full Screen text editor!
* DOCMAKER will read the text out of a .COM file that it
has created! No need to look for the original text just
to modify the document.
* Use any word processor that can save a file as straight
ascii text to make the display that you want to turn into
a .COM program. Then use DOCMAKER to turn the file
into a rapid displaying program!
* Full selection of colors to be used when the .COM file
displays the text.
* On-line help.
How to use DOCMAKER.
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Using a word processor, write the screen of text that you
would like to be displayed. There can only be 24 lines in the
file and each line may be a maximum of 80 characters. Save the
text in ascii format and exit.
DOCMAKER <enter>, will put the program in operation. Select F2
from the opening screen and you will be prompted for the name
of the text file to read. DOCMAKER will read the text and
display it so that it may be checked out before the .COM file
is created.
Assumming that the file is ready to use, hit the F6 key and
make a choice of colors to be used in the .COM file display.
The text display will then be set to the colors you have
chosen so that you may review the choices and modify if they
are not what you want.
To create the .COM program, hit F3 and you will be prompted
for a name to use for the text display program. The drive
letter is optional but the extention MUST be .COM! The default
drive and directory will be used if one is not specified.
Example: If I want to create a file called HELP on my hard
drive, I would enter 'C:HELP.COM' as the filename to
use. If I want to write this file to my hard drive in
the UTIL directory, I would enter 'C:\UTIL\HELP.COM'
DOCMAKER's full-screen editor may be used to write text or
modify a file that has been read into the program's buffer. It
operates like a basic word processor with no frills. A
display of the status of the insert/delete mode is available
on line 25. It is toggled by the INSERT key. The cursor arrow
keys are used to move around the screen and PgUp, PgDn, Home
and End are used to move to extremes of the display. Tab will
advance the cursor 10 spaces.
DOCMAKER is copyrighted and for private, non-commercial use
only!
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for DOCmaker.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
On Compuserve to ID# 72261,677
FILE1376.TXT
Disk No: 1376
Program Title: Armada Utilities
PC-SIG version: 1
A collection of utilities developed on Tandy computers for use in word
processing, printer control, screen display and electronic music
composition. ALTPAGE lets you print on both sides of a page by
splitting an ASCII file into two separate files while allowing you to
specify the page-lengths. CASE changes an ASCII or Wordstar file into
all upper or lower-case characters. CRLF converts the carriage return
of an ASCII file into a carriage return plus a linefeed or vice versa.
DOCMAKER creates an executable .COM file from an ASCII file. You will
be able to read an existing file and edit it, display the text and
change the screen colors. TSRMAKER, similar to DOCMAKER, can also
retain the file in the background for a pop-up display when you want it.
PRINTIT is a simple page formatter that lets you set margins and include
headers and page numbers. AUTHOR is a program which performs the
functions of both ALTPAGE and PRINTIT while giving you a notepad, a
quick text viewer, a typewriter emulator, a WordStar to ASCII converter,
and a quick directory viewer. FXPRNT is a set-up utility for an
Epson-FX or Brother printers.
FRQCNV4 prints musical staff paper, converts a frequency to the nearest
musical note and vice versa and can change one key to another. MIDIPOP
pops up tables showing a list of MIDI commands in hex and decimal for
programming the MIDI synthesizer. CASIOID generates a random text patch
for the Casio CZ-101 or CZ-1000 synthesizer.
Two additional programs are CRT31, which allows you to change the screen
colors and CURSOR, which changes the size and blink rate of the cursor.
BOOTFIX and RB1000 give Tandy 1000 users means for speeding up the
rebooting of their systems.
Synopsis: A collection of utilities for use in word processing,
printer control, screen display and electronic music composition.
Usage: Utilities/Word Processing/Printer Control/Screen Display/Music.
Special Requirements: Some programs require a CGA card.
How to Start: Type GO (press enter).
Suggested Registration: $20.00
File Descriptions:
ALTPAGE COM Alternate page printing utility.
ALTPAGE DOC Documentation file for ALTPAGE.
AUTHOR COM Shell that runs several of these utilities.
AUTHOR DOC Documentation file.
BOOT COM Program to reboot your computer.
BOOT DOC Documentation file.
BOOTFIX DOC Documentation file.
BOOTFIX SYS Soft-boot system file for Tandy1000.
CASE COM Program to change text files to upper/lower-case.
CASE-DOC COM CASE documentation.
CASIOID COM Random patch generator.
CASIOID DOC Documentation file.
CRLF COM Converts ASCII file carriage returns into linefeeds.
CRLF TXT Program info.
CRT COM Changes background, foreground, and border colors.
CRT DOC Documentation file.
CURSOR COM Changes size of you cursor.
CURSOR DOC Documentation file.
DOC COM Sub program for DOCMAKER.
DOCMAKER COM Documentation lay-out program.
DOCMAKER TXT Information on DOCMAKER.
FQ COM Musical utilities.
FQ DOC Documentation file.
FXPRNT COM Printer utility.
FXPRNT DOC Documentation file.
INT19 COM Misc program.
MIDIHEX COM Midi Reference guide.
MIDIPOP COM Midi Reference guide.
MIDIPOP DOC Documentation file.
NOLF COM Convers carriage linefeeds into carriage returns only.
NOLF TXT Program info.
PRINTIT COM A page print utility.
PRINTIT DOC Documentation file.
RB1000 COM Reboot program for Tandy1000.
RB1000 DOC Documentation file.
README Program info.
README 1ST Program info.
STRIP2 COM Misc. program.
TEMPLATE DOC Documentation file.
TSRMAKER COM Make your own memory resident files.
TSRMAKER TXT Program info.
PC-SIG
1030D East Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale Ca. 94086
(408) 730-9291
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.
FQ.DOC
Musical Utilities v4.0
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This program and the documentation is copyright 1987 by Jack A.
Orman and is for non-commercial use only. It may not be sold, bundled
with other software or otherwise distributed for a profit without
written permission of the author.
* - What is this program?
It's actually a collection of several useful programs in one.
The main feature is the Frequency-Note conversions. It does some fancy
calculations and will conevrt either a frequency to the nearest
musical note or if you input a frequency it will determine the closest
note and octave. It features a table of musical instrument ranges and
a key transposition calculator. The last feature is a staff paper
printing routine. If you have an Epson FX, IBM graphics printer or
another printer that can do the IBM graphics character set, then this
feature will printout music staff paper with 9, 10,12, or 18 sets of
lines per page.
* - How do I use it?
Just run the program! Its got menus for everything and the arrow
keys move the highlighted bar around to make your selection. Just hit
ENTER when your choice is highlighted to select it.
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for FRQCNV4.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
FXPRNT.DOC
FXPRNT.EXE VERSION 1.1
This program was originated and tested on a 640k Tandy 1000 but should
work well on any IBM PC compatible with 128k memory. The codes that
are used are for the FX series Epson printers and work perfectly on my
Brother M-1509. Additional versions of this program are planned that
will support other printers so write to us with your requests.
The program is easy to use, merely hit the key that corresponds to the
feature desired ( ENTER is not required ) and use the escape key to
exit the program.
Enjoy and we hope that you get a lot of use from this program.
J. Orman
May 1986
Updated to Version 1.2 on 6-12-86.
The Tiny print mode was changed to a more compressed, darker looking
print. And the startup routine was modified to reset all of the print
parameters each time the program is run...this makes sure that the
on-screen display is showing the correct print mode(s).
J.A. Orman
Updated to Version 2.0 in August 1986
Completely rewritten in Turbo Pascal, the compiled program
is much smaller and faster operating.
September 1986
Made minor modifications to clean up some of the code and
changed screen colors to match the original version which
is easier to view on a monochrome monitor.
**************** NOTE *************************************
The disk of shareware programs that is advertised when the program
starts is now only $20.00!!! This is LESS than a dollar per
program! Register now by sending a check to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
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║ To start a program, type the name of the program that you wish to run ║
║ Example, if you wanted to run the program called ALTPAGE you would type ║
║ ALTPAGE (press enter) ║
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║ If you wanted to copy the documentation to your printer, you would type ║
║ COPY ALTPAGE.DOC PRN (press enter) ║
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MIDIPOP.DOC
MIDI POPup v1.0 9/25/87
by Jack A. Orman
ARMADA SOFTWARE
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
As a progammer working with MIDI, I often have to refer to the MIDI
Spec document to find out what bytes are used for the many commands so
I can put them in my programs. The commands are in binary format and a
calculator is needed to convert them to decimal. Therefore, I wrote
this small pop-up utility that will terminate and stay resident and
produce a list of MIDI commands at the touch of a key.
Not every command is included in the pop-up, a few had to be left off
due to space limitations. Also in the language of MIDI, Channel 1 is
specified by a data byte of 0000 , Channel 2 by 0001 .... Channel 16
by 1111 (15 decimal or F hexadecimal). Therefore, for any Channel N,
the proper data to use to designate that channel is equal to N - 1.
For example, a Note Off command is 128(decimal) + the channel number.
For Channel 1, note off = 128 + 0
Channel 2, note off = 128 + 1
Channel 3, note off = 128 + 2
...
Channel 16, note off = 128 + 15
The note and velocity must also be sent after the note off command, of
course. The same numbering system applies to the channels when used
with all of the other commands also.
The active sensing command is optional but once it is sent, the synth
will expect it to continue to be sent at least every 300 ms. It's best
to stay away from this since it is just more data to clog up the MIDI
channel.
The Tune Request command is for analog synths that will need to tune
their oscillators.
Hitting the Alt-Left Shift key calls the MIDI POPup to the screen and
escape will remove it. This program should have no problem with any
IBM compatibles but there are NO guarantees.
MIDIhex.com is identical to MIDIpop.com except the numerical values
are all in hexadecimal. Both programs were created with TSRmaker.
The MIDI POPup is a copyrighted work and is for private non-commercial
use only! Site licenses and tech support are available for a small
fee.
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for MIDIpop.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
NOLF.TXT
NOLF.com version 1.0
by
Jack A. Orman
Copyright 1988
This program is used to process a text file that is stored in
ASCII format and converts all of the carriage return/line feed
pairs ($0D,$0A) into carriage returns only ($0D). This is necessary
for the files to be displayed properly on many word processors used
by the Macintosh (and others). Also, some computer networks require
that you upload text with a carriage return only at the end of each
line.
Proper syntax for using NOLF.com is:
NOLF <d:readfile> <d:writefile> <ENTER>
where d: is the drive and an optional path, readfile is the name
of the ASCII text file to be read, and writefile is the name of the
ASCII text file that you wish to save the converted file to. If the
writefile already exists, CRLF will write over it with no warning.
Note: DO NOT use NOLF for files that are larger than 62k bytes.
Break larger files into sections that are less than 62k and
process them separately.
PRINTIT.DOC
PRINTIT! Page Formatting Utility v. 2.10
This program started as a companion to our ALTPAGE program and was
merely used to provide a proper printout for the text files that
ALTPAGE produced. Since then it has grown to the extent that it is
useful as a stand-alone page formatter for printouts.
How to use PRINTIT!
===================
Epson and a lot of other printers, defaults to a 66 line per page
spacing. So does PRINTIT! but you're not limited to that...the
parameters in the setup menu can be set for any number of lines per
page, top, bottom or left hand margins. The defaults that PRINTIT!
opens with are appropriate for use with files created by ALTPAGE. You
will be prompted for the name of the file to be printed; use the stan-
dard format - D:filename.ext - where D: is the drive where the file to
be printed is located (optional), and filename.ext is the complete
name and extention of the text file. Note that PRINTIT! only works
properly with a pure ASCII text file. If the file that you wish
printed is other than straight ASCII, run it through the included
utility STRIP2.COM to remove all non-printable characters.
The format to use with this program is as follows. From the DOS
prompt ( A> or C> etc.) type in:
STRIP2 < d:infile.ext > d:outfile.ext
Infile is the name of the program to have its high bits stripped while
outfile is the name of the file that will be created containing the
ASCII version of the text. There must be room on the diskette for out-
file to reside in; approximatly the same number of bytes will be re-
quired for outfile.ext as are in the the text file that is being
processed.
The new version of PRINTIT! makes use of a lot of assembly language
routines and ROM Bios calls. It may only be compatible with close
clones of the IBM...it works perfectly on a Tandy 1000 for instance.
PRINTIT! , ALTPAGE , and STRIP2 are the copyrighted property of Armada
Software and Jack A. Orman. They are for personal, non-profit use
only and are not to be sold, bundled with other software that is being
sold or otherwise used for profit-making purposes without express
permission from A.S.L.
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for Printit.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
RB1000.DOC
Reboot 1000 v1.0
""""""""""""""""
by
Jack A. Orman
Well, when I tried BOOTFIX.SYS on my T1000 (early model with ROM 1.0)
it did work as Mr. Stanislav advertised. Which got me to wondering,
the Ctrl-Alt-Del always did a cold boot on my machine, what does Int
19 do? I always use a number of memory resident programs and
according to George, my T1k ought to hang up. But it doesn't! With
BOOTFIX.SYS installed or not, the INT 19 call does a warm boot!
Which lead me to try and find a way to redirect the Ctrl-Alt-Del
signal to head straight for Int 19. It is possible but could lead to
interference with other programs so I chose another route, one which
should work with IBMs or clones. I decided to intercept the print
screen interrupt (#5) so that my program wouldn't be in conflict with
other memory resident programs that were checking keystrokes. However,
I wanted to preserve the PrintScreen function.
I chose the easy way out (why not?). Reboot 1000 works as follows:
Run the program, RB1000.COM which will become resident in memory.
To print the screen, hit LeftShift-PrintScreen.
To reboot via Int 19, hit RightShift-PrintScreen.
That's it. If your machine (T1000A, T1000SX, or clone) hangs up when
you try to reboot with Int 19 then load up George Stanislav's driver
program. If it doesn't (like mine) then use RB1000.COM alone so you
won't tie up any extra memory with an unneeded resident driver.
TSRHELP.DOC
Help for using TSRmaker pop-ups
"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
The pop-up screens that are created with TSRmaker can be
difficult to use if certain procedures are not followed.
1) TSRmaker pop-ups watch for certain keystrokes by
intercepting INT 9. If you have any programs loaded that
also grab that interrupt, it is possible that there will
be a conflict. To avoid a jam up, change the order in
which your resident programs are loaded. If your pop-up
TSRmaker is being loaded last, for example, try moving
it up a couple of places in your Autoexec.bat file.
2) TSRmaker screens only pop-up if your video display is in
modes 2 or 3. If the display is using one of the
graphics modes, mono mode 7, or a 40 character display,
then the pop-up will not come up on the screen. The
solution is to switch to a CGA 80 column text mode and
try the key-combo again.
3) TSRmaker screens are being written to page 3 of the CGA
display. If your application is using this page there
could be a possible conflict. This is not likely,
however.
4) TSRmaker screens only work on CGA or compatible
displays! They will not pop-up on an EGA or VGA screen
that is not in the CGA mode.
Thanks and I hope this clears up most problems that users run
into.
-Jack A. Orman * July 1988
TSRMAKER.TXT
TSRMAKER v1.1
by
Jack A. Orman
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
What is TSRMAKER?
"""""""""""""""""
This program will create an executable .COM file out of a
text file of 25 lines of 80 characters each. This fast
operating program when run will remain resident in memory to
be popped up by hitting the selected keys. It should not
cause any interference with other memory resident programs.
Features!
"""""""""
* Full Screen text editor!
* TSRMAKER will read the text out of a .COM file that it
has created! No need to look for the original text just
to modify the document.
* Use any word processor that can save a file as straight
ascii text to make the display that you want to turn into
a .COM program. Then use TSRMAKER to turn the file
into a memory resident screen display!
* Full selection of colors to be used when the .COM file
displays the text.
* Select the keys to activate from among several choices.
* Enter a message to be displayed when the program is loaded.
* Have several screens resident in memory at once by using
different 'hot keys' to call up each.
* On-line help.
* Each resident program only uses about 2.3k of memory.
How to use TSRMAKER.
""""""""""""""""""""
Using a word processor, write the screen of text that you
would like to be displayed. There can only be 25 lines in the
file and each line may be a maximum of 80 characters. Save the
text in ascii format and exit.
TSRMAKER <enter>, will put the program in operation. Select F2
from the opening screen and you will be prompted for the name
of the text file to read. TSRMAKER will read the text and
display it so that it may be checked out before the .COM file
is created.
Assumming that the file is ready to use, hit the F6 key and
make a choice of colors to be used in the .COM file display.
The text display will then be set to the colors you have
chosen so that you may review the choices and modify if they
are not what you want.
Next, use the F7 key to call up a menu to select the 'hotkey'.
When that is complete, hit F8 and enter the message to be
displayed when the program loads.
To create the .COM program, hit F3 and you will be prompted
for a name to use for the text display program. The drive
letter is optional but the extention MUST be .COM! The default
drive and directory will be used if one is not specified.
Example: If I want to create a file called HELP on my hard
drive, I would enter 'C:HELP.COM' as the filename to
use. If I want to write this file to my hard drive in
the UTIL directory, I would enter 'C:\UTIL\HELP.COM'
TSRMAKER's full-screen editor may be used to write text or
modify a file that has been read into the program's buffer. It
operates like a basic word processor with no frills. The
screen changes color and a block cursor appears to indicate
that the editor is active. Since there is no on-screen display
to show the state of INS or DEL the screen colors will change
according to the mode you are in. White text is INS and yellow
text indicates the Overwrite mode. F10 is used to exit
from the editor routines. The cursor arrow keys are used to
move around the screen and PgUp, PgDn, Home and END are used
to move to extremes of the display. Tab will advance the
cursor 10 spaces.
The .COM program that is created by this program operates by
resetting the interrupt 9 vector and scans for the proper
keystokes that will cause the resident program to be run. When
the right key combination is hit (Alt-RightShift is the
default selection), the program sets the active page to 4
and writes the resident text to the screen in the blink of an
eye! When ESCAPE is hit to exit, the active page is
restored to whatever it was upon entry. The pop-up will only
operate if the video display is in modes 2 or 3 which are
25x80 text displays. Changing modes clears the video memory
but doesn't affect the TSR because it writes the text to the
screen each time that it is popped up.
A sample template is included to show the basic design of the
pop-up screen. It was created with a word-processor, edited
with TSRmaker and used to make the MIDIpop and MIDIhex
programs. Feel free to incorporate it into your pop-ups!
TSRMAKER is copyrighted and for private, non-commercial use
only!
**** REGISTRATION ****
The registration fee for TSRmaker.com is $20.00 which entitles the user
to a disk containing the complete collection of our utilities. Some of
the programs on the registration disk have never been released as
shareware.
Send your check or money order for $20.00 to:
Jack A. Orman
Armada Software
Box 858
Southaven, MS 38671
Comments and suggestions are welcome...
On GEnie send e-mail to J.Orman
On Delphi send to username JAO.
Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #1376
Volume in drive A has no label
Directory of A:\
ALTPAGE COM 16205 11-11-18 11:11a
ALTPAGE DOC 4725 11-11-18 11:11a
STRIP2 COM 154 11-11-18 11:11a
AUTHOR COM 40267 11-11-18 11:11a
AUTHOR DOC 14757 11-11-18 11:11a
BOOT COM 322 11-11-18 11:11a
BOOT DOC 876 11-11-18 11:11a
CASE-DOC COM 2069 8-29-87 11:04a
CASE COM 557 11-05-88 9:21p
CASIOID COM 36892 11-05-88 9:24p
CASIOID DOC 3382 5-01-88 11:04a
CRLF COM 550 11-11-18 11:11a
CRLF TXT 1032 11-11-18 11:11a
NOLF COM 541 11-11-18 11:11a
NOLF TXT 1090 11-11-18 11:11a
README 890 11-11-18 11:11a
CRT COM 598 11-05-88 9:30p
CRT DOC 3119 10-29-88 11:18p
CURSOR COM 496 11-05-88 9:33p
CURSOR DOC 1986 10-29-88 1:45a
DOC COM 2069 7-22-88 6:12p
DOCMAKER COM 17597 11-05-88 9:35p
DOCMAKER TXT 4006 7-22-88 5:58p
FQ COM 27342 11-05-88 9:39p
FQ DOC 1831 5-01-88 11:22a
FXPRNT COM 18334 11-05-88 9:43p
FXPRNT DOC 1712 5-01-88 11:26a
MIDIHEX COM 2378 11-05-88 9:48p
MIDIPOP COM 2369 11-05-88 9:48p
MIDIPOP DOC 2865 5-01-88 11:29a
PRINTIT COM 15006 11-05-88 9:51p
PRINTIT DOC 2909 5-01-88 10:43a
BOOTFIX DOC 6195 8-16-87 1:18a
BOOTFIX SYS 726 8-15-87 9:40p
INT19 COM 2 8-15-87 8:53p
RB1000 COM 390 11-05-88 9:54p
RB1000 DOC 1613 9-07-87 10:20a
README 1ST 142 9-07-87 10:23a
TEMPLATE DOC 2064 9-16-87 5:01p
TSRMAKER COM 27899 11-05-88 9:57p
TSRMAKER TXT 5995 5-01-88 11:35a
TSRHELP DOC 1515 11-11-18 11:11a
FILE1376 TXT 3954 5-11-89 10:26a
GO BAT 38 4-24-89 4:39p
GO TXT 771 5-11-89 10:29a
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