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7 June 1990 - !Help for
Microcosm program - Public Domain release 5 June 1990
Written by....
Michael Spearpoint
3 Lawrence Crescent
Edgware
Middx HA8 5PB
Notes
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This program is much like the famous Life program which is available on
nearly every computer. The program must find the 'Palette', 'SetUp' and
'Sprites' files within the applications resources. An example SetUp file is
included and the data necessary is fully explained (I hope).
The C source code could be modified to incorporate additional parameters if
desired (eg genetic mutations, effects of temperature, sexual reproduction
etc). I didnt think it was worth making this program multi-tasking etc -
anyway I havent got the time. The code could have been written more
elegantly but I only had a couple of spare days.
Q. Is this program any use ?
A. I doubt it.
Conditions of Use
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This program is supplied free to everyone 'as is', but I cannot guarantee
that it is free of bugs. The program can be freely distributed through any
medium, as long as it is delivered with all the unaltered resource files and
it is not supplied for profit in any way.
Permission is given to employ part or whole of the program in any software
intended for the public domain, with due credit to me as necessary. If any
of the orginal code is incorporated in a program that is for sale or
released as copyright material then written permission is required. The
author holds the copyright on all the material supplied and can alter these
conditions as and when appropriate.
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Other Archimedes software by the author....
HighLow
RISC User magazine disc - Dec 1989 Vol.3 No.2
Card game based on a popular TV programme. Not the greatest piece of
software or particularly orginal - but we've all got start somewhere !
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Napoleonic Battle Simulator
Send SAE to above address
Multi-tasking RISC-OS game based on historical battles of the Napoleonic
era. Two players or one player against the computer, play-by-mail option,
zoom facility, status details, four complexity levels and timer option.
Refight the battles of Waterloo and Maida over a scale map of the actual
terrain. Comprehensive 70-page rule booklet covering movement, combat,
visibility and morale.
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Document Processor
Forthcoming issue of RISC User or from the author
Automatically numbers chapters, sections, headings and creates a contents
page for 1st Word Plus or Edit documents - multi-tasks in the RISC-OS
Desktop environment.
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LF to CRLF
Forthcoming issue of RISC User or from the author
Terminates lines of text with a <CR> <LF> instead of just a <LF>. This
application is useful for converting text files created by !Edit so that
they can be read by text editors that require a <CR> <LF> line terminator.
For example, the text editor provided by Microsoft's QuickC version 2 on
the IBM PC will not be able to read source files that only end with a <LF>.
The application is installed on the icon bar where files can be dragged for
processing.
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AirFlow
Commercial research software - not publically available
A 'simple' field model to predict the air-flow in computer suites due to air
conditioning. The model needs to produce a map of velocities so that smoke
detectors are not positioned in areas of dead space or high air flows.
A room (containing walls and objects) is divided into a number of equally
sized cells and the air inlets and outlets defined. The model uses an
iterative technique by considering pressure differences to calculate the
results. Unfortunatly the theory/model is not coping well with entrainment
or turbulance - anyone with algorithms or papers please contact the author!!
Developed and written (in C) on the Arc but needs to be ported to a
PC (yuck).
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