Just by messing around with the simple gnuplot script in the article Plotting the spirograph equations with ‘gnuplot’, I made:
Month: February 2010
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death from above 1941
I see that you can now view WWII historical imagery in Google Earth. Yes, there’s Dresden, Hamburg and Warsaw. But what about Clydebank, Coventry, London? Yes, it wouldn’t have been allied imagery, but we were bombed too.
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help for the Weston user in your life
Talk about displacement activity: in the week or so before selling the house and upping and off to Canada, I scanned and converted the Weston Master V Exposure Meter and Invercone Instruction Book to HTML. -
my juvenalia: 2D Star Dodge / Stardodger
Oh dear:
And here’s the Locomotive BASIC version, as published in Amstrad Computer User:10 ' ** Initialise ** 20 MODE 1 30 INK 0,0 40 BORDER 0 50 INK 1,26 60 INK 3,0 70 q=5 90 LOCATE 16,1 100 PRINT"Stardodger" 110 LOCATE 1,5 120 PRINT"Avoid the killer Asterisqs, and seek the" 130 LOCATE 9,6 140 PRINT"wondrous Nextscreen Gap." 150 LOCATE 12,13 160 PRINT"Use SHIFT to climb" 170 GOSUB 700 190 MODE 1 200 DRAWR 629,0 210 DRAWR 0,170 220 MOVER 0,60 230 DRAWR 0,169 240 DRAWR -629,0 250 DRAWR 0,-399 260 DRAWR 0,2 270 DRAWR 627,0 280 DRAWR 0,168 290 MOVER 0,60 300 DRAWR 0,167 310 DRAWR -625,0 320 DRAWR 0,-399 330 MOVE 636,0 340 DRAW 636,399,3 350 MOVE 638,0 360 DRAW 638,399 370 PLOT -1,-1,1 380 TAG 390 FOR s=1 TO q 400 MOVE 50+RND*561,20+RND*361 410 PRINT"*"; 420 NEXT 430 TAGOFF 440 MOVE 0,200 450 dy=4 470 DRAWR 4,dy 480 IF INKEY(21)<>-1 THEN dy=4 ELSE dy=-4 490 t=TESTR(2,dy/2) 500 IF t=1 GOTO 550 510 IF t=3 GOTO 620 520 MOVER -2,-dy/2 530 GOTO 470 550 MODE 1 560 PRINT TAB(16);"YOU GOOFED" 570 LOCATE 5,13 580 PRINT"Number of Screens completed = "+STR$((q/5)-1) 590 GOSUB 700 600 RUN 620 MODE 1 630 PRINT TAB(16);"WELL DONE" 640 LOCATE 10,13 650 PRINT"Stand by for Screen "+STR$((q/5)+1) 660 GOSUB 700 670 q=q+5 680 GOTO 190 700 LOCATE 8,25 710 PRINT"Press any key to continue" 720 WHILE INKEY$<>"" 730 WEND 740 WHILE INKEY$="" 750 WEND 760 RETURN
Here’s Asterisk Tracker, the original inspiration from 1984
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still the coolest thing ever
Got E-UAE running properly from a hard disk image last night. Tried to get the configuration close to what I had on my old 3MB A500.
This is what it sounds like.
