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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
- -----
-
- 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
- -----------------
-
- 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 !
-
- ************
-
- 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.
-
- ************
-
- 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.
-
- ************
-
- 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.
-
- ************
-
- 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).
-
- ************