Pegasoft press release
Pegasoft
Copyright (c) 1994 Apple Users' Group, Sydney
Republished from Applecations, a publication of the Apple Users' Group, Sydney, Australia.
Pegasoft boasts a small selection of productivity and amusement programs for the Apple //gs.
Pegasus Pascal 2.1 - US$50
The latest & fastest version with full order-of-operations (no more Pragma PExpr): this required some major redesigning of the compiler. Pre-compiling is about 10% faster (up to 60% for some programs). This means, over large projects, using PP is only about 20% slower than using ORCA/Pascal alone.
There are loop & subprogram exit statements plus the usual bug fixes & enhancements: INC/DEC are more powerful, hex and binary constants and new operations are allowed in constant expressions, and several restrictions have been removed.
For those who don't know, this is the best IIGS high-level language. Pegasus Pascal is a pre-compiler: it translates its programs into ORCA/Pascal (somewhat like MD-BASIC does for Applesoft). Although not Pascal, it's based on Pascal, having all of ORCA/Pascal's commands and additional ideas from newer languages like Modula-2, Turing Plus and Ada. It has all the type-checking of Pascal (without the annoying syntax errors Pascal is famous for), and easier to debug than C. It even recognizes and overcomes spelling mistakes! We don't use ORCA languages anymore. Up-to-date for System 6.0.1. Plus many more features.
Comes on 2 disks.
Ask for one of our fliers for more details.
Requires ORCA/Pascal and doesn't work with Prizm.
DrawTools 3.2 (Tool098) - US$40
Our best-selling program of all time. A graphics and animation toolset: the same one we use with our entertainment software: palette and colour manipulation, high-speed "pixies", fades, wipes, easy file I/O, game and net drivers, all written in assembly language.
Comes on 2 disks with examples in Micol Adv. BASIC, Pegasus Pascal, ORCA/Pascal, ORCA/M and Merlin. For us, it's indespensible.
Quest for the Hoard 1.1 - US$15 s/w
Our best-selling strategy game for your IIGS, with astounding sound effects, chain reactions and a bonus round. Often imitated; never duplicated.
"A lot of work obviously went into this program's creation, and it shows." -- Bob Ribaric, GS+
Treasures from Heaven 1.1.1 - US$30 s/w
Our second game, based on Klax, with great background music and fast animation; the songs are playable on the Jukebox.
"[TFH] is definitely a commercial quality game, and is certainly well worth the $30 shareware fee." -- Joe Kohn, Shareware Solutions II
[ Seven Hills almost picked up this game. ]
Pegasoft's Jukebox 1.3 - US$15 s/w
Plays NoiseTracker modules and SoundSmith songs to dazzling multicolour patterns that you can control.
"It's far more sophisticated than other IIGS musical playback programs... a true IIGS multimedia experience." -- Joe Kohn, SSII
Pegasoft's Jukebox Song Disks (set of 4) - US$15
Thoughts for the Day 1.0 - US$15 s/w
Displays a joke, quote or triva question each day when you start your computer, or you can call up more from the Extras menu at any time.
Four databases included:
* Deep Thoughts (tm) by Jack Handy
* Murphy's Laws
* Gospel of Matthew
* Triva Quiz
[ Coming soon: Thoughts for the Day 2.0; upgrade will be available ]
Ken O. Burtch
R.R #1 Honsberger Ave
Jordan Station, ON Canada
L0R 1S0
(905) 562-4267
Email: ncrcan!coutts!tiamet!ken@uunet.ca

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