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Long gone are the days when you had to use search engines to jump from one website to another in order to figure out the syntax or how to solve a problem using a Batch file script. The Batchography book is a boon for system administrators, build engineers, programmers and home users alike. It takes you on a journey of re-discovery of the lost art of Batch files programming. Whether you are an experienced user or new to the language, you will be surprised by the clarity and the abundance of the material presented in this book. With more than 140 scripting recipes, you will learn about things that you never thought were possible to achieve using the Batch files scripting language.

Language Reference Volume 1 of 2 for dBASE PLUS 11. dBASE PLUS is a 32-bit rapid application development (RAD) environment for the creation of powerful database applications and data-driven web applications. It features flexible interactive database administration tools, an advanced third-generation object-oriented programming model, and a high level of backward compatibility. Its rich assortment of powerful Windows and Web tools, including Table, Form, Menu and Report designers makes modeling, managing, retrieving and reporting information easier and faster than ever before. The Borland Database Engine (BDE) included with your package allows easy connectivity to dBASE tables—includin ...

Language Reference Volume 2 of 2 for dBASE PLUS 11. dBASE PLUS is a 32-bit rapid application development (RAD) environment for the creation of powerful database applications and data-driven web applications. It features flexible interactive database administration tools, an advanced third-generation object-oriented programming model, and a high level of backward compatibility. Its rich assortment of powerful Windows and Web tools, including Table, Form, Menu and Report designers makes modeling, managing, retrieving and reporting information easier and faster than ever before. The Borland Database Engine (BDE) included with your package allows easy connectivity to dBASE tables—includin ...

dBASE PLUS 11 is a 32-bit rapid application development (RAD) environment for the creation of powerful database applications and data-driven web applications. It features flexible interactive database administration tools, an advanced third-generation object-oriented programming model, and a high level of backward compatibility. Its rich assortment of powerful Windows and Web tools, including Table, Form, Menu and Report designers makes modeling, managing, retrieving and reporting information easier and faster than ever before. The Borland Database Engine (BDE) included with your package allows easy connectivity to dBASE tables—including the new DBF7 file format—and provides native suppo ...

dBASE 2019 is a 32-bit rapid application development (RAD) environment for the creation of powerful database applications and data-driven web applications. It features flexible interactive database administration tools, an advanced third-generation object-oriented programming model, and a high level of backward compatibility. Its rich assortment of powerful Windows and Web tools, including Table, Form, Menu and Report designers makes modeling, managing, retrieving and reporting information easier and faster than ever before. The Borland Database Engine (BDE) included with your package allows easy connectivity to dBASE tables—including the new DBF7 file format—and provides native support ...

It was early 1993 and id Software was at the top of the PC gaming industry. Wolfenstein 3D had established the First Person Shooter genre and sales of its sequel Spear of Destiny were skyrocketing. The technology and tools id had taken years to develop were no match for their many competitors.It would have been easy for id to coast on their success, but instead they made the audacious decision to throw away everything they had built and start from scratch. Game Engine Black Book: Doom is the story of how they did it.This is a book about history and engineering. Don’t expect much prose (the author’s English has improved since the first book but is still broken). Instead you will find insi ...

How was Wolfenstein 3D made and what were the secrets of its speed? How did id Software manage to turn a machine designed to display static images for word processing and spreadsheet applications into the best gaming platform in the world, capable of running games at seventy frames per seconds? If you have ever asked yourself these questions, Game Engine Black Book is for you. This is an engineering book with plenty of drawings attempting to describe in great detail the Wolfenstein 3D game engine and its hardware, the IBM PC with an Intel 386 CPU and a VGA graphic card. Game Engine Black Book details techniques such as raycasting, compiled scalers, deferred rendition, VGA Mode-Y, linear ...