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- ##### TURBO LIFE v2.01 #####
- ##### ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #####
- ##### Written by Stefan Zeiger in 6/7/8 1991 #####
- ##### ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #####
- ##### (c) 1991 by ! WIZARD WORKS ! #####
- ##### ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ #####
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- ## ----------- IMPORTANT ----------- ##
- #### | ~~~~~~~~~ | ####
- ###### | THIS PROGRAM IS SHAREWARE !!! | ######
- ######## | READ "DISCLAIMER" FOR MORE | ########
- ###### | INFORMATION !!! | ######
- #### | | ####
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- 1. TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- -----------------------------------------------------
- | 1. Table of Contents |
- | 2. What is Turbo Life ? |
- | 3. Using Turbo Life |
- | 4. The options menu |
- | 5. Operating the editor |
- | 6. Other features |
- | 7. The demo fields |
- | 8. Known bugs |
- | 9. Technical information |
- | 10. Disclaimer |
- | 11. History |
- | 12. Some additional things |
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- 2. WHAT IS TURBO LIFE ?
- -----------------------
-
-
- Turbo Life is a quite fast and comfortable version of the cellular automation
- "Life".
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- 3. USING TURBO LIFE
- -------------------
-
-
- A. Start Turbo Life from the Workbench or the CLI. You don't need "run"
- ~~ or "runback", because Turbo Life is written as LSR (Load-and-stay-
- resident).
- Choose "Disk options" from the "Project" menu, select the file and click on
- "Load".
-
- [ For programmers: There's a little bug in the documentation for SAS/C 5.10.
- If you're linking with "cback.o" to produce LSR programs and you don't want
- to perform any Output to the calling CLI window, you should though set
- "_BackGroundIO" to 1 and close the handle that you get as soon as possible,
- if you want the CLI window to go away. See "User's Guide" of the SAS/C
- manual for futher information. ]
-
- B. If you have the right path in the "DEFAULT TOOL" of your field icon, you can
- ~~ start Turbo Life directly by clicking on the field icon. Then the field
- will be loaded automatically.
- If the field is in the same directory as Turbo Life you may also use the
- workbench's "extended selection". Click once on the field icon, then hold
- down <SHIFT> and double-click on the Turbo Life icon.
- If you have the ARP library in your libs: directory, you can use the FULL
- "extended selection", which means that you may use all directories. You
- may also click once on the Turbo Life icon, then hold down shift and
- double-click on the field icon.
-
- C. In the CLI you can specify the field directly after the command name. It
- ~~ will then be loaded automatically.
-
- Select "Project" "Start/Stop" to start or stop processing the field. Select
- "Project" "Process 1 tick" to process only one tick. The tick number is
- displayed in the information line at the bottom of the screen.
-
-
-
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- 4. THE "OPTIONS" MENU
- ---------------------
-
-
- You can select either "Save Icon" or "No Icon" in the "Options" menu. If
- you use "Save Icon" then there will be an Icon created for every field you
- write to disk.
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- 5. OPERATING THE EDITOR
- -----------------------
-
-
- The color/state of the field can be selected in the "Edit" menu. You can also
- use the key shortcuts (like everywhere in Turbo Life). Just click on the
- cell you wish to change and it will get the new state. You may also drag the
- mouse pointer over the field to get a continuous line. Use "Edit" "Clear" to
- clear the field.
-
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- 6. OTHER FEATURES
- -----------------
-
-
- ICONIFY :
- ~~~~~~~~~
- Since version 0.50 there is the item "Iconify" in the "Project" menu. If you
- select it, the screen and window of Turbo Life will be replaced by a small
- icon on the workbench screen. This will save some kB of chip memory. If
- you want to get back to Turbo Life, just activate the icon by clicking on
- it and then press the right mouse button. The screen and window will be opened
- again and the field will get redrawn. This can take (according to the field)
- up to 8 seconds. If there is not enough chip memory available to re-open,
- Turbo Life will quit. So be careful, if you don't want to loose your field !!
-
-
-
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- 7. THE DEMO FIELDS
- ------------------
-
-
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- | Spaceship.TL The small "spaceship" moving with 1/4 of |
- | light speed. |
- | |
- | 5Cross4.TL The "5" cross in the 4th order. |
- | |
- | 5Cross6.TL The "5" cross in the 6th order. |
- | |
- | CanonMaker.TL A configuration that produces after some |
- | ticks a canon. This canon shoots small |
- | "spaceships" (see Spaceship.TL) to the |
- | south west every 30th tick. |
- | |
- | Title.TL This one is just for fun. |
- | |
- | Turbine8.TL A nice pattern which is pulsating all 8 |
- | ticks. |
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- 8. KNOWN BUGS
- -------------
-
-
- "It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature."
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- I haven't found any bugs (yet). If you do so, please let me know it. Write to
- the address at the end of this manual.
-
-
-
- ------------------------
- 9. TECHNICAL INFORMATION
- ------------------------
-
-
- Turbo Life was written using SAS/C 5.10. The file requesters is my own,
- enhanced version of Anders Bjerin's "File Window". Thanks, Anders !
-
-
-
- --------------
- 10. DISCLAIMER
- --------------
-
-
- Turbo Life v2.01 was written by Stefan Zeiger in 6-11/1991. It is copyrighted
- (c) 1991 by ! WIZARD WORKS ! . This program may be distributed for
- non-commercial only. All files must be kept together and must remain unchanged.
- You may only charge a distribution fee less or equal to the fee that Fred Fish
- wants for his AmigaLibDisks.
- This program is distributed "as-is". ! WIZARD WORKS ! doesn't give any warranty
- for Turbo Life.
- Turbo Life is SHAREWARE. You may test it without paying for it. If you
- have decided to use this program, you have to pay 10 US$, 20 DM or 6 £ ster-
- ling. Send the money to the address at the end of this manual. You will then
- become a registered user and get informed about future releases of Turbo Life.
-
-
-
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- 11. HISTORY
- -----------
-
-
- Here comes the version history of Turbo Life (beginning with the earliest
- version) :
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------
- | 0.50 First working version. |
- | 0.51 Slightly faster. |
- | 0.60 Full "extended selection" with ARP library. First |
- | release. |
- | 2.00 Security checks added. Fade in/out added. New |
- | design. Bugs fixed. Second release. |
- | 2.01 File requester bug fixed. Now using WizardFiler |
- | v1.01. |
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- 12. SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS
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-
-
- No, nothing.
- Be C'ing you,
- Stefan.
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