A S D E Inc. 151 rue Jolicoeur Hull, Qu‚bec CANADA, J8Z 1C8 PROGRAMS BY ASDE INC GEOGRAPHY TUTOR The author has created an educational and fun Geography program called GEOGRAPHY TUTOR. Glenn Brown in the NCAUG Ottawa Newsletter has said it is one of the best educational program he has seen. Writing in RESET (Vol 1 Issue #3 P14-15) Bob Thompson gave a very good review and pointed out in particular the "excellent user interface". See the readme file provided with this shareware version of the program for more details. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ SPANISH VERB TUTOR Published by Artworx, Inc. Penfield N.Y. This program is designed to help the user learn, revise or check the proper conjugation of all Spanish verbs. The author believes that learning with your computer should be made as easy and enjoyable as possible. The program is initialized to communicate its instructions to you in English. If you prefer to communicate in French, Spanish or German you can do so by choosing that language on the first screen presented to you. You can also choose to change the language of communication from the Main Menu at any time. ALL THE SPANISH VERBS * 1,250,000 DIFFERENT WORDS * 16 LEARNING LEVELS * 75 CLEAR LESSONS * 12,000 DIFFERENT VERBS * ALL MODES * ALL TENSES * ALL PERSONS * QUIZES AND FULL TABLES * BEGINNING * INTERMEDIATE * ADVANCED * PROFESSIONAL * INTERACTS WITH THE USER IN SPANISH, FRENCH, ENGLISH OR GERMAN. This program is designed to help both the beginning student and the fluent speaker in the use of all Spanish verbs. For the beginning and intermediate student the program permits gradual learning and practice of all Spanish modes, tenses and persons of all regular verbs as well as a few of the most frequently used irregular verbs. This is done through 75 lessons in 16 levels of learning. The lessons review increasingly complex verb forms. Each is followed by a practice quiz which is graded and referenced for future reference. For the intermediate and advanced student the program permits graded drills through any of 12000 verbs in any mode or tense at the student's choice. For advanced students as well as teachers and native Spanish speakers and writers, the program makes all the exact forms of more than 12000 verbs instantaneously available. Thus the user gets immediate access to the correct spelling AND correct accents of more than 1,250,000 different words. The program works on ATARI 520ST OR 1040ST, in monochrome or medium resolution color modes. Comes packaged on single sided diskette and is not copy protected. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ FRENCH VERB TUTOR To be published by Artworx Available directly from the author now. All the notes from the SPANISH VERBS program aply to this program about FRENCH VERBS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GERMAN VERB TUTOR In preparation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ GFA_BILD PROGRAM This program (GFA_BILD) is designed to help the GFA BASIC programmer save a great amount of time and effort in building sophisticated mouse driven programs. All code developed by GFA_BILD (except the author boxes) will work equally on colour (medium resolution) and monochrome monitors. The program assumes that the user is thoroughly familiar with GFA_BASIC and has some experience in programming. One need not however be an expert to use this program it was developed to permit relatively inexperienced programmers to prepare sophisticated applications and advanced programmers to save time. Every part of GFA_BILD was used in the construction of GFA_BILD itself. A boot strap program as it were. Though GFA_BILD is self contained, its output can only be used in conjunction with your GFA BASIC interpreter. GFA_BILD will create ascii files which you can then incorporate into your programs through the MERGE function of GFA BASIC. MENU: -New_menu: The most powerful function of GFA_BILD is this NEW MENU. It will create a complete program shell for you. You simply define each menu heading and subheading and it creates all the procedures to permit the mouse to access each subheading. You can then merge this into an empty GFA BASIC program and test it immediately. BOXES: The box functions of GFA_BILD are: -Alert boxes: this will create the code for an alert box of your choice. Note that this function is quite a simple call in GFA_BASIC. The advantage of using GFA_BILD to develop it, is that it permits testing of line lenght and exact messages directly. -Author boxes: This will create an author box (or any other message which you wish). You can select the size of the box as well as the size and style of the text for each line. The message can be as long as the box will contain. The code generated is the only one which is not automatically corrected for colour (medium resolution) and mono monitor. You should develop separate author boxes for both system, or else use the message boxes option. -Message boxes: This is identical to the Author boxes except that you are given fewer choices for the size of texts. Because of this, the code generated can be used equally well in monochrome or medium resolution. -Radio Button boxes: This is the most sophisticated of the boxes functions in GFA_BILD. It permits you to build a dialog box of any size (up to full screen) and to have as many on/off buttons as the size of the box will accomodate. You can choose the size and style of the text for the title of the box as well as for the label of each button. The code generated is automatically adjusted for colour or monochrome monitor. FILES: Program ANALYZE aids are the next item on the main menu line. -Id_Variables: Will prepare a disk or screen file of all variables in alphabetical order together with a full ordered cross reference to the line numbers where they are used in the program. The CROSS REFERENCER also tells you whether the value of the variable was changed on any line. Since GFA_BASIC does not number lines, a full program listing with line numbers is also generated. -Analyze_Program: Will prepare a disk or screen file of all program functions and/or loops and their line numbers. The line numbers are as defined above. This is an extremely useful programming aid to review the structure of a program. One can choose to review only procedure beginning and end as well as where they are called from. One could also choose to review other loops such as FOR/NEXT, IF/ENDIF, WHILE/WEND etc.. -List on screen: lists any ascii saved file from a disk to the screen. It is useful to check the files created by the analyze and id_variables programs above. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ORDERING ANY OF THE PROGRAMS LISTED: GEOGRAPHY TUTOR $29.95 GFA_BILD $19.95 SPANISH VERB TUTOR $49.95 FRENCH VERB TUTOR $49.95 To order by mail send cheque or money order to: ASDE INC. 151 rue Jolicoeur Hull, Qu‚bec J8Z 1C8 TEL (819)770-7681 To order by phone (AMX,VISA,MASTERCARD): CHIANG COMPUTERS LTD. 1054 BANK ST. Ottawa, Ont. CANADA TEL:(613)230-4101 (613)230-2854 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~