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  Turkey Day PLASMA fun David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2012-11-20 13:26 -0800
    Re: Turkey Day PLASMA fun "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2012-11-20 17:36 -0600
      Re: Turkey Day PLASMA fun David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 08:55 -0800
        Re: Turkey Day PLASMA fun "Bill Buckels" <bbuckels@mts.net> - 2012-11-21 11:46 -0600
    Re: Turkey Day PLASMA fun BLuRry <brendan.robert@gmail.com> - 2012-11-21 16:30 -0800
    Re: Turkey Day PLASMA fun "John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2012-11-21 20:37 -0500
    Re: Turkey Day PLASMA fun D Finnigan <dog_cow@macgui.com> - 2012-11-30 17:13 +0000

#518 — Turkey Day PLASMA fun

If you need to find an reason to flee from the extended family over the next few days, here is your excuse!

http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/plasma2.dsk

It is pretty thin on documentation, but it will bring up a READ.ME file to get you started.  ROD and FIRE are some fun demo programs to run (especially with an accelerator or emulator on high speed).  This is just a little preview of things to come, but I don't want to spoil that announcement quite yet.

Enjoy!

Dave...

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#519

"David Schmenk" <dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:

>If you need to find an reason to flee from the extended family over the 
>next few days, here is your excuse!"

Well done David! Apparently you really are a geek...

> It is pretty thin on documentation

Pretty clear actually.

>ROD and FIRE are some fun demo programs to run

More fun to write I think. Your radar thingy is good and fast too...  are 
you trying to put us all out of "business" I wonder? From the looks of 
things you may very well have succeeded. Perhaps I'd better stick to 
fishing.

Glad I dropped in.... I'll watch for the announcement. Quite an 
accomplishment. One wonders where you find the time.

Bill 

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#522

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:37:10 PM UTC-8, Bill Buckels wrote:
> "David Schmenk" <dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >If you need to find an reason to flee from the extended family over the 
> 
> >next few days, here is your excuse!"
> 
> 
> 
> Well done David! Apparently you really are a geek...
> 
> 
> 
> > It is pretty thin on documentation
> 
> 
> 
> Pretty clear actually.
> 
> 
> 
> >ROD and FIRE are some fun demo programs to run
> 
> 
> 
> More fun to write I think. Your radar thingy is good and fast too...  are 
> 
> you trying to put us all out of "business" I wonder? From the looks of 
> 
> things you may very well have succeeded. Perhaps I'd better stick to 
> 
> fishing.
> 

Good heavens no!  The last thing we need is the last of the breed to go "out of business" as you say.  I'm trying to get more back in to the fold, just as you are with your great Aztec C work.  

> 
> 
> Glad I dropped in.... I'll watch for the announcement. Quite an 
> 
> accomplishment. One wonders where you find the time.
> 
> 
> 
> Bill

I'm glad you enjoyed it.  It's more of a diversion, but creating a new language for a 3 GHz, 8 GB monster just doesn't seem like much of a challenge.   BTW, the PLASMA bytecode interpreter and 'BYE' launcher use 4095 bytes of the 4096 available in the language card.  Who counts bytes anymore?

Dave...

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#523

"David Schmenk" <dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:

>Who counts bytes anymore?

Since I turned 60 my teeth seem a little looser. Perhaps I should be 
counting bites or cutting my food into bits...

>great Aztec C work...

Let's not compare historical archiving with language and 0/S development 
now... historical archiving is not nearly as geeky as what you have done 
there... I'd doff my baseball cap to ya but there's snow on the ground up 
here and my balding head would surely freeze.

Bill 

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#524

Recommended settings for Jace:

Enable Max speed (you might have to click on "max speed" and then "Computer" before clicking apply.  This will speed things up 2 or 3 times.  Now set CPU per clock to 10 (for Rod's color demo) or 100 for the fire animation.  That lets the cpu run a lot more cycles out of step with video sync, and that has the effect of speeding things up a lot more.

-B

On Tuesday, November 20, 2012 3:26:04 PM UTC-6, David Schmenk wrote:
> If you need to find an reason to flee from the extended family over the next few days, here is your excuse!
> 
> 70
> 
> http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/plasma2.dsk
> 
> 
> 
> It is pretty thin on documentation, but it will bring up a READ.ME file to get you started.  ROD and FIRE are some fun demo programs to run (especially with an accelerator or emulator on high speed).  This is just a little preview of things to come, but I don't want to spoil that announcement quite yet.
> 
> 
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 
> 
> Dave...

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#525

In article <fa765953-197c-43ff-b2ca-f22a51b1f821@googlegroups.com>,
 David Schmenk <dschmenk@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you need to find an reason to flee from the extended family over the next 
> few days, here is your excuse!
> 
> http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/plasma2.dsk
> 
> It is pretty thin on documentation, but it will bring up a READ.ME file to 
> get you started.  ROD and FIRE are some fun demo programs to run (especially 
> with an accelerator or emulator on high speed).  This is just a little 
> preview of things to come, but I don't want to spoil that announcement quite 
> yet.
> 
> Enjoy!

Sweet! Thank you for including Rod's pattern. Runs well in kegs, 
kegs-osx and sweet16.

-- 
John B. Matthews
trashgod at gmail dot com
<http://sites.google.com/site/drjohnbmatthews>

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#527

David Schmenk wrote:
> If you need to find an reason to flee from the extended family over the
> next few days, here is your excuse!
> 
> http://schmenk.is-a-geek.com/tarfiles/plasma2.dsk

"More language specification will be provided in the future."

I'm looking forward to this.

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