Any Host currently named is appointed and will be an interim host until the conference elects their permanent host(s). All BASNet messages are copyrighted with a publisher's copyright. Copyright 1992 by BASNet -- All right reserved Any organization that is not for profit is granted a limited license to quote from these messages. No message may be sold by the network or by licensed or unlicensed entities without the expressed written consent of the copyright holder and the original author of the message. The purpose of this copyright is to prevent use for profit of the message content of the network and it's member. The conferences may change or merge based on traffic. NUMBER: 1 NAME: SNIPPETS DESCRIPTION: BASIC Snippets Conference This area is for the discussion of good BASIC programming along with the how to accomplish your programming goals. You can contribute to this area--regardless of your skill. It may be asking a question that's stumping other users, too. Or it may be helping me to get rid of an old programming prejudice/flaw. Or... We hope for a spirited, argumentative conference; though deplore personal attacks and will vehemently react to such discourtesy. However, attacks on ones code is fair game and highly encouraged. If you can't live with that, don't contribute a new snippet. HOSTS: Bobby Morgan ACTIVITY: Light to Medium NUMBER: 2 NAME: DISCUSS DESCRIPTION: Chat about any BASIC Topic This area is for casual discussion about programming using BASIC. It is the conference that allows for general discussion of about any QB related topic. It is a much more relaxed area than the Snippets area where actual code and coding practices are the _only_ topic allowed. Vendors are also welcome to discuss there wares--within reason. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Medium NUMBER: 3 NAME: Novice DESCRIPTION: Novice Programmers Conference We all need someplace to start; ask that dumb question that everybody says really isn't; and, commiserate. This spot is it, folk... Be sure to take a look at the bulletins they have answers for all those FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) I could think of. I'm sure it will be expanded often. HOSTS: Nicholas Nowinski ACTIVITY: Light to Medium NUMBER: 4 NAME: VB DESCRIPTION: Visual BASIC Discussion concerning programming using Visual BASIC for Windows and the new Visual BASIC for DOS. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 5 NAME: QBASM DESCRIPTION: Low Level and Asm Discussion concerning programming of interrupts, hardware via ports and all those things that you can either access using QB INP/OUT/INTERRUPT or do from Assembler. You can also discuss any asm problems or techniques. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 6 NAME: Comm/Doors DESCRIPTION: Door and communications programming Programming communications is different. The way things are echoed controlling operation of the UART hardware and more make this a new challange. Additionally, bbs door software requires specific interfacing. Discuss the problems and pitfalls associated with all aspects of bbs and other modem communication HOSTS: Robert Church ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 7 NAME: Consulting DESCRIPTION: A place for those who work in a commercial environment or make their livlihood from programming to discuss situations relating to their specific problems or the field. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 8 NAME: Utilities DESCRIPTION: System programming and utilities have been considered the bailiwick of Assembly language or "C" programmers. But, recent changes and alternate libraries have made BASIC programmers a competitive force. We all need to write the occasional utility. Chat here about it becoming a world class tool. Participants will find information about programming at the system level. Others are sure to accrue benefits from such knowledge in their applications. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 9 NAME: Hardware DESCRIPTION: Hardware as it relates to software. Why a hardware conference on a programmer's echo? Hardware is the "necessary evil" and, the more we know about, it the better our software. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 10 NAME Reviews (All mesages should include: "REPLY IN DISCUSS") DESCRIPTION: After you buy or use a product for a while, you may wish to let others know about its strength and weakness. You are invited to enter an ARTICLE that gives your views on any BASIC related products. These will be retained on a long term basis on most systems. Dave Cleary may select some for electronic publication in his BASIC newsletter. If you place a message in this conference, you are giving Dave authority to append his publisher's copyright to any existing copyrights. HOSTS: ACTIVITY: NUMBER: 11 NAME Software Engineering (Group Projects) DESCRIPTION: A place for programmers to jointly develop software projects. The topic will vary from time-to-tim HOSTS: Dave Cleary ACTIVITY: New 12/92 NUMBER: 12 NAME ILINK (ILINK prime distributor) DESCRIPTION: This is the BASIC conference from ILINK. Due to an agreement between the two networks, we share our BASIC conferences and both distribute the other's conferences HOSTS: Mike Cocke ACTIVITY: Moderate to Active NUMBER: 13 NAME MicroHelp (ILINK prime distributor) DESCRIPTION: A commercial library vendor. They offer a number of libraries to BASIC programmers HOSTS: MicroHelp Support ACTIVITY: ??? NUMBER: 14 NAME Crescent Software DESCRIPTION: A commercial library vendor providing support for their products which include PDQ, QPak, GraphPak, QScreen, XREF HOSTS: Dave Cleary, Crescent BBS Sysop ACTIVITY: New 11/92 NUMBER: 15 NAME EllTech (Tony Elliot) DESCRIPTION: A commercial library vendor providing support for their products which include E-Tree Plus, Printer Plus, Compression Plus, QuickNet, DynaMenu, Virtual Form Manager, and GUI Toolkit. HOSTS: Tony Elliot ACTIVITY: New 12/92 NUMBER: 16 NAME Hanlin Shareware DESCRIPTION: Meet and discuss with fellow programmers and the author any of the shareware products of Tom Hanlin. HOSTS: Tom Hanlin ACTIVITY: Medium NUMBER: 17 NAME PowerBASIC by Spectra DESCRIPTION: Meet and discuss with fellow programmers and the tech support department of that excellent BASIC alternative POWER BASIC. PowerBASIC is a very powerful alternative BASIC! HOSTS: Lloyd Smith, Spectra Tech Support ACTIVITY: Pending NUMBER: 18 NAME: Vendor DESCRIPTION: General Vendors Conference A place to meet with and discuss any QB products. If a conference exist for the product you wish to discuss, please use it instead. Any programmer may use this area for support of any product of his commercial or shareware BASIC library or utility. Press releases, price lists etc., if kept reasonably limited, are welcome. Vendors Available: Christy Gimmel DSE Software Publishing HOSTS: Each vendor will host his portion. The network will provide generic hosting as necessary. ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 19 NAME Off-Topic DESCRIPTION: Sometimes we want to chat about a topic that's not allowed in the conferences we participate in. Well, here's where to come to discuss it. One can also try to peddle that clunker software, hardware, whatever, and/or insert an advert for your bbs. (ANSI adverts are not overly appreciated!) HOSTS: ACTIVITY: Light NUMBER: 20 NAME: HUB DESCRIPTION: This is a conference that will be used to iron out the details associated with this network. Each hub will echo this conference as their "local" conference for their hub family to work out network problems. During startup, this conference will originate and pass through the NETHub. Future plans may change. HOSTS: Your Hub sysop ACTIVITY: Permanent Net Business Note: ILINK cross distributes conferences with BASNet. In the ILINK originating conference (12 - 13), ILINK rules apply and ILINK moderators host and control conference activity.