Squiggly Worms

This is one of those programs everyone seems to have written. It was 
originally written for a Sun workstation and is based on an article 
in the Dec '87 issue of Scientific American. I adapted it to run on 
the Amiga since I don't have a Sun at home. :-) 

Execution of the program is straight forward. If you run it from the CLI
you can specify various options on the command line. These options fall into
two groups, worm control and screen control. First the worm control :

	-l #	Length of the Worms. Short worms look like bacteria and
		long one look like modern art. Try lengths of 4 and 2000

	-s #	Size, this determines the size of the worm pieces. The worm is
		made up of square blocks. Try a size of 4 and a length of 2 for
		some really short fat worms. Or a size of 32 and a length of 1
		for some wandering spots. A size of 32 and a length of 100 is 
		interesting too.

	-n #	Number of worms. This directly effects how fast the worms move
		4 zip along, 8 are fun, 16 slow down 32 are slower still and
		several hundred are slow motion city!.

And then the screen control :

	-r #	Resolution. This switch sets the resolution of the screen
		that the program opens, it can be 0, 1, or 2 which stand 
		for Low (320 X 200), Medium (640 X 200), or High (640 X 400).
		Note that if you have a 'morerowed' screen it opens it as big
		as it can.

	-d #	Depth. Number of bitplanes in the screen that is opened. In
		theory opening a 640 X 400 X 4 screen taxes the chip memory
		bus, however this is not very cpu intensive so fewer bitplanes
		do not necessarily increase the speed. You can save chip ram
		though.


If you double click on the icon the program will ask you to specify the above
switches. (I know it should use TOOLTYPES but hey it's late) 

Finally, I use Lattice 4.0 to compile this thing so you may find that you 
need to diddle with it a bit to get Aztec to compile it correctly. I tried 
to #ifdef the really Lattice specific stuff.

Have fun,

Chuck McManis
1141 Vasquez Ave 
Sunnyvale, CA 94086

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