F12Shell is a Visual Basic 3.0 program that demonstrates a variety of 
programming techniques.  It has 3 D buttons, stay on top, and a built in 
date and time display.  While the stay on top is some fairly common code, 
3 D solution for the buttons is exclusively mine.  By simulating depth
using lines instead of multiple bitmaps I managed to reduce the file size
by over 6 K,  it did involve more coding to control the lines, but I think 
the size savings were worth it.

Like any VB 3.0 program this can be invoked from the dos command line, thus
starting Windows, or used as a shell if its pathname is placed in the
Shell= line of System.ini.  F12SHELL is freely distributable in the zipped
form which includes F12SHELL.MAK, F12SHELL.FRM, F12SHELL.EXE, and 
README.F12.  In this form F12SHELL is considered freeware.  Customizations
are available for a small fee.  Programmers who wish do add to the program
are invited to do so, but must retain the copyright and source information
for Force 12 which display under About and More About.  Just add another
About style box for your own code and mods.  I did not include the ICO 
files with the program because those actually belong to Microsoft, I just
inverted the colors.
