Big Blue Disk #22

BIG BLUE DISK -- Number 22

BRAINWARE

EIGHT QUEENS by John Sigle See your PC solve the classic problem of placing eight queens on a chessboard with no two attacking each other. Includes algorithm in Turbo Pascal code.

HELPWARE

SIMPLE BUDGET by Richard E. Hamel Plan your personal finances with this handy program.

MASTER INDEXER by David Leithauser Generate an index of your favorite magazine articles arranged by subject of interest. Handy for creating bibliographies or for your personal reference.

CALENDAR by Dan Harrison This program can show on-screen calendars for any month of this century or next, with major holidays shown.

THE HAPPY HACKER

DATES by Dan Harrison These .OBJ files can be linked into your QuickBASIC programs to do many handy operations involving dates, including calculating what weekday a date is, the number of days between two dates, and even the date of Easter. These functions were used in the Calendar program this issue.

LONGEST LINE by Jeffrey Rush Find the length of the longest line of a text file; use this to see in advance if the printout will get cut off on an 80-column printer, or check that a file is within the line length limit of a text editor program.

FUN 'N GAMES

FRIGATE by Matthew Kaufman You're the captain of a frigate in this single-player naval battle. Not an arcade "shoot-em-up," this game requires careful planning and thought in order to survive and defeat the enemy.

• SPECIAL PROGRAM -

PC-WINDOW from Advanced System Design This handy shareware utility stays resident in memory and lets you pop up windows to perform some useful functions, like a notepad and a stopwatch.