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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Posting Pointer: ms.c
Message-ID: <3240@well.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 6-Jun-87 03:41:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: well.3240
Posted: Sat Jun  6 03:41:48 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 10-Jun-87 03:13:47 EDT
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Distribution: world
Organization: Whole Earth Lectroinic Link, Sausalito, CA
Lines: 40
Keywords: old, display, hack, Gosper, watermelon

[ 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.

EDITORIAL_MODE (1)

	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......

EDITORIAL_MODE (0)

	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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