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- Short: Make landscapes, view them from all sides
- Author: wnoeker@t-online.de (Wilhelm Noeker)
- Uploader: wnoeker@t-online.de (Wilhelm Noeker)
- Type: gfx/fract
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- What it does:
- - calculate a random elevation map on 64 x 64 squares
- - all heights below zero are truncated (these squares become ocean)
- - assign each surface of the map an illumination value:
- the more it's tilted, the darker
- - draw the surface: if it's ocean, paint it blue, if it's above a
- 75% "snow line", use shades of gray, otherwise shades of brown
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- MountainView runs on the Workbench, using OS3.x pen sharing, so make sure
- you have a lot of colors available (at least 32). With OS2.x it open its own
- 5-plane LoRes screen instead, and can also be forced to do so by supplying a
- random CLI parameter (no equivalent tooltype option, sorry).
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- Use cursor keys (or the obvious gadgets) to navigate around the landscape,
- Enter to redraw, Esc to abort. Oh, and there's menus, too. ;-)
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- MountainView was written using CygnusEd 4.2 and the GNU C compiler.
- Freeware, source included. The program icon is taken from Manfred Wiesert's
- icon collection (check out pix/mwb/ATRcons3.lha on Aminet).
- The complete history:
- - Original BASIC implementation © 1987 Compute Publications, Inc.
- - KickPascal conversion by W. Nöker, 1992
- - C conversion and interactive GUI (i.e. this version) by W. Nöker, 1999
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