How can I write my own programs for DeskMate?
You need to get a copy of the DeskMate Software Developer’s Kit for DeskMate 3.0x (there is no SDK for DeskMate 1, 2 or Personal DeskMate). The SDK was originally sold by Tandy for $299. There is a copy in the wares directory on the Tvdog site: ftp://ftp.oldskool.org/pub/tvdog/tandy1000/wares/DeskMate-Development-System-3.03/ Probably nobody owns the rights to DeskMate any more; see section IV.J. The SDK includes libraries, a dialog box editor and other utilities (with varying degrees of bugginess), and 2 8.5×11″ manuals. It supports Microsoft C, Microsoft Macro Assembler, Turbo Assembler, Turbo C, and Borland C (or any compiler that supports Microsoft libraries – which is most). The compiler needs to be ANSI-compliant, unless you want to edit all the header files to delete the formal parameters in the function prototypes. Each version of the SDK comes with that version of DeskMate and supports that version’s features (any version can make programs that run under any version of DeskMat
