The text (including this file) was written and editted with BLACKBEARD*, the
programmers' editor.

CAVEMAP1.BAS requires your GW-BASIC or BASICA to run.  CAVEMAP1 has been
completely rewritten in GW-BASIC, but has still not been completely debugged.
Some of the more esoteric subroutines have not been included in the
distribution version.  If you need something different from what is done with
CAVEMAP1, ask.  I may be able to easily patch it in, or I may think that it is
such a dumb idea and such a good teaching example that I will tell you to
program it yourself.  Please modify my program to fit your job.

Graphics.  The graphics on CAVEMAP1 are CGA HiRes [640x200], mapped onto a
psuedoHercules card by HGCIBM.  Why is it I can write 720x348 graphics from C,
but not from BASIC?  Am I missing something obvious, or is there some great
incompatability between GW-BASIC and Hercules graphics???  There has to be a
more elegant solution than writing 640x200 graphics and then distorting them
onto a 720x348 display!!!  I think that I know the answer; that the attorneys
are still waxing fat on the carcasses of IBM, Microsoft, and Hercules.  Let the
bloodsuckers feast, but somebody please write a machine language subroutine
[SCREEN 99] for those of us who must write with our computers in the meanwhile.

* Is there something strange about the way I think that makes me prefer
BLACKBEARD to all other word processors?  Is it simply that BLACKBEARD does
just what I would expect it to do and does it with a simple mnemonic keystroke,
or does BLACKBEARD make the operator think like BLACKBEARD?  No wonder my
mailbox is stuffed with offers to teach my secretary some well-advertised
computer program or another at a weeklong seminar costing only $999.99 [plus
meals, lodging, transportation, and tips for these ophioleum marketing
engineers].  A pox on computer salesmen!  A viron on computer software
salesmen!!  A meme for independent bitflippers.