ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab) (06/06/87)
[ Okay, so I'm not outa here.... ]
I just fixed my Amiga. One of the 8520's was indeed bad. I
replaced the bad one (got it right first time, too!), and all is well.
To celebrate, I decided to cook up another display hack. Since I
recently became the proud owner of a copy of HAKMEM, I thought I'd try
implementing Munching Squares (since it was the only one of the three
display hack programs I could figure out; no speeke PDP-6/10).
Munching Squares wasn't as wonderful as I thought it would be. I
tried colorizing it, varying the algorithm, and doing all kinds of strange
things. With all due respect to Bill Gosper, I think it's a bit on the
boring side (compared to other things).
Nevertheless, it is a piece of history, and perhaps someone else can
pervert the algorithm to make some really crazy designs.
You'll find the sources on comp.sources.amiga, and a uuencoded
executable on comp.binaries.amiga.
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Personally, I think it's a bit dumb to have to go to three different
places to get all the pieces of a program you may want. It's also a bit
inconvenient for the poster to have to post to three different newsgroups to
get everything out, when s/he could just whip up a single shar file and send
it off. Does this *really* help the net? Three seperate headers? Three
seperate postings? Hmmm......
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Hope you find the code of interest. Now then, lemme see if our news
software will send to the comp.sources.amiga moderator correctly....
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