PCopy! Info and Released issues.

[E.K.Virtanen]

covering all the BASICs…

PCOPY! (http://pcopy.wikidot.com/start), a "magazine" created and offered to ALL BASIC developers all over the web. After some research amongst other BASIC forums and Websites we noticed that aside QB and family of compilers and FB, most other BASIC dialects didn't have anything close to a "magazine". Hence, PCOPY! saw the light of day. PCOPY! exists because we believe that alot of BASIC dialects out there deserve to be mentioned and talked about. Therefore, anything that pertains to any freely available BASIC can make it's way to PCOPY! being projects, new versions of compilers, new or updated libraries for these compilers, if it's about BASIC it can definitaly be in PCOPY! (http://pcopy.wikidot.com/start)

PCopy contact 24/7 pcopy.staff@gmail.com

[E.K.Virtanen]

First PCopy issue ever did see the daylight at August 02, 2006 and it has eight articles and four tutorials beside of regular columns.
Totally eight contributors did build up of this first PCopy issue ever.

PCopy! #10 (http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pcopy/issue10/)
Contributors:
MystikShadows (editor in chief)
Kristopher Windsor
Lurah
Aroticoz
mennonite
Chandler
Corey Yeates
Mac

Columns
From The Editors
Letters
Neat BASIC Projects
Exit Issue

Articles & Editorials
Bounce 3: On the Town - Lurah
Space Sound Generator - Lurah
Developer's Desktop Professional Project - MystikShadows
Hey, this is gonna give some programmers a heart attack - Chandler
KRef - A Kriegspiel Referee - Mac
Don't feel obligated to use Vista - Kristopher Windsor
Program Edition - Corey Yeates
Lynn's Legacy: The Review - MystikShadows

Tutorials
3D Explanations & Simulations: Part 1 - Aroticoz
Windows A.P.I. - Part One: A.P.I. Basics - MystikShadows
mennonite's QB Intro - What Exactly is QBasic? - mennonite
FBWin Console Apps In ReactOS - mennonite

[E.K.Virtanen]

It took a months before second issue came out. Real life and some opinional differences affected badly. Anyway, issue #20 was released January 07, 2007 only with contributions of five writer. But it was released :)

PCopy! #20 (http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pcopy/issue20/pcopy20.html)

Contributors:
E.K.Virtanen
MystikShadows
Hartnell
Richard D.Clark
Chris Warren-Smith

Columns
From The Editors
Letters
Neat BASIC Projects and News
Exit Issue

Articles & Editorials
Interview with Jukka Lavonen
Brutus2D 1.6 : Innovation
The Evolution of Your Userbase
About SmallBASIC
Lesser-Known Basic Languages

Tutorials
Brutus2D Vs. BASIC
Windows A.P.I. - A Complete Study Part II
FreeBASIC syntax colors for GEdit

[E.K.Virtanen]

Third issue came soon after second one. Only a bit over month after actually. Once again five contributors but issue was very good if we think time and efforts there was to use.
PCopy! issue #30 was released at February 16, 2007

PCopy! #30 (http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pcopy/issue30/)

Contributors:
E.K.Virtanen
MystikShadows
Hartnell
Richard D.Clark
TheMusicalAbuser

Columns
From The Editors
Letters
Quote of the Month
News and Neat BASIC Projects
Exit Issue

Competitions and Challenges
Game Competition: Asses of Fire

Articles & Editorials
Travellin in a BASIC land
Free Brutus2D
mafSOFT - Mapixelator Preview
Lesser-Known Basic Languages, Part 2.
Hartnell's Lost Article
Interview with Richard D. Clark
20 Minutes into the Future...

Tutorials
Database Design - A Complete Study

[E.K.Virtanen]

PCopy! #40 (http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pcopy/issue40/) released at March 15th 2007 was milestone in two ways.
For first, its new .css layout was accepted better than old dark. It was easier for eyes and not so "aggressive"
Secondly, after issue #40, PCopy! nearly died away. Until Oct. 24'th 2007 there were no any talk about releasing anymore issues.

Pcopy! #40 (http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pcopy/issue40/)

Contributors
MystikShadows
E.K. Virtanen
Hartnell
Richard D. Clark
Guy (gl) Lonné
Eros Olmi
Linkage
Jare

Regular Columns:
From Our Editing Desk (MystikShadows)
Submitting to PCOPY! (MystikShadows)
Letters To The Editors (Mixed Contributors)
Quote Of The Month (E.K. Virtanen)
In The News (Mixed Contributors)
Exit Issue (MystikShadows)

Special Corners:
The Useless Corner (Hartnell)
Contest : The Dumbest Game (Hartnell)
Reviews And Presentations:
Introducing Yabasic (MystikShadows)
Introductory Article On XBLite (Guy (gl) Lonné)
About thinBasic (Eros Olmi)
Epic Crusade (Jare)

Articles:
A piece of history: Star Trek Game (E.K.Virtanen)
The Evolution Of BASIC (MystikShadows)

Tutorials:
Programming Simulation Games (MystikShadows)
Basic4GL Tutorial: Tile Maps (Linkage)
Introduction to the FreeBasic Extended Types (Rick D. Clark)
Simulating Polymorphic Methods... (Rick D. Clark)
FreeBASIC File/Folder Management (MystikShadows)

[E.K.Virtanen]

PCopy! (http://pcopy.wikidot.com/start) Issue #50 (http://www.shnetworks4.net/~asciiwor/pcopy/issue50/) was realeased at Nov 16'th 2007.
After yet another long waiting, it was published finally. Now were closing a deadline for issue #60.

PCopy issue #50
Regular Columns:

* From Our Editing Desk (E.K.Virtanen)
* Submitting to PCOPY! (Stephane Richard & E.K.Virtanen)
* Letters To The Editors (Mixed Contributors)
* Letters To The Hartnell (Mixed Contributors)
* In The News (Mixed Contributors)
* Exit Issue (E.K.Virtanen)

ARTICLES:

* About PCopy! (E.K.Virtanen)
* The mindset problem (Bill Williams)
* Interview with Eros Olmi (E.K.Virtanen)

Reviews & Presentations:

* VIXEN: An XBLITE GUI Generator (Guy (gl) Lonné)
* Introducing Fatal Method Games (FMG)
* More about smallBasic (Chris Warren-Smith)
* 3D graphics in thinBASIC: (Petr Schreiber)

Tutorials & HowTo's:

* Coding Functions: (Guy (gl) Lonné)

[E.K.Virtanen]

PCopy! issue #60 deadline is at 15'th Dec 2007.

[E.K.Virtanen]

After ages of silence, and lack of new chief editor, i decided to admit that PCopy! is "officially" a dead one.

Subforums and subdomain of it has been removed, and all released issues are acrhived as one single download. New releases are not planned.

Thanks to all who has helped with this project in past years. To get all issues, go to basicprogramming.org/links (http://basicprogramming.org/main/index.php?page=links.php) and see under Something to remember.

[Petr Schreiber]

Thats very sad to hear E.K. :(

Thanks for keeping the issues online for others.