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State Machine

Version 1.0 updated · Steve Novosad

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Description

These are short programs that implement a "state machine". These are similar to the state machine described in the August 1986 "Scientific American" magazine. In this state machine, a pixel's state in the next cycle depends on the states of the four neighboring pixels in this cycle. This updated version introduces new patterns. Freeware.

Technical details

File
state.zip
Size
5.0 KB
Format
.zip
Year
2003
Added to S.U.P.E.R.
2003-06-14
Files inside
10
Author
Steve Novosad
Path
anonftp/pub/state.zip

How to install it

What to send to the palmtop saves 2.7 KB

These are the files you need. You can send them from the package contents below.

  • MODE6.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 10 B
  • TEST2.BAT → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 70 B
  • TEST3.BAT → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 74 B
  • PSEUDO2.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 622 B
  • PSEUDO3.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 613 B
  • PSEUDO4.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 634 B
  • PSEUDO5.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 1.1 KB
  • PSEUDO5T.COM → A:\SOFT programa de DOS 2.0 KB

No need to put README.TXT, README2.TXT: they are manuals, source code or supporting material. Read them here and save 2.7 KB on a 1 MB disk.

Steps
  1. Copy MODE6.COM, TEST2.BAT, TEST3.BAT, PSEUDO2.COM to A:\SOFT. They are DOS programs: run them from the DOS icon, or add A:\SOFT to the PATH in C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT to call them by name.

Derived from the package contents and the 200LX conventions. It installs to A: on purpose: C: is a RAM disk and every byte there is memory taken from the system.

The author's instructions
an external setup to provide mode 6 and something on the screen.
It can actually use mode 4 or 5, but things are a little different
there.  The *.BAT files are starters for someone to play with.

     MODE6.COM switches video modes if you need to for PSEUDO3.

     Stefan Peichl's Carpet Designer was the start of this silly-
ness.  I thought I could take an old program I wrote for my Z-100
and translate it to use CGA graphics and be small enough to squeek
by the no binaries limit.  Say about 250 - 300 bytes.  Well after
the usual dull thuds, I brute forced a working program.  Oops, too
big now.

     Enjoy.

     Steve

Literal excerpt from README.TXT, exactly as it came in the package.

Send to my palmtop

The palmtop must be waiting before you press the button, or the transfer will fail. It is the palmtop that announces it is ready, not the other way round.

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