C64 Miscellaneous Utilities --------------------------- By Howard Feldman These are a collection of programs which I created back in my C64 days, of varying degrees of completion and quality. None of these have been released to the public before except where noted. All are in BASIC, so make sure you load them with ,8 and not ,8,1. The programs are as follows: WAVE - draws and animates a cool wave pattern on the screen - on of my shortest programs ever - one line! ELEVATOR - watch the elevator go down on your screen. Oooh-aaah. GRAPHER - allows you to plot a variety of forms of mathematical functions on your C64 in graphics mode, such as polynomial and exponentials. Good if you don't have a graphing calculator (or a real computer heh-heh). This was released before on HOWSTUFF.D64 back in 1995, but this version is slightly updated, allowing you to plot sums of sin and cos waves (for Fourier transformations, for example). HEX-PRINTER - prints out a hex dump of a region of the C64 memory. Not sure if this works with emulators or not, but just uses standard device 4 to access the printer HEXA- & OCTAGONS - another mathematical program, this computes the number of elements in a regular hexagon or octagon having N elements per side. Ok, so this is for a narrow audience, but at a size of 2 blocks, what the hey COMPU.BOOT - this was a set of lessons on how to use your C64 and BASIC that I got started on. I didn't get too far but I did make a couple cute character sprites including Mr. Bits 'n' Bytes, who talk to you on the intro screen. Maybe someone else will pick this up and continue it. COMPU.LESSONS contain the actual lessons, the other is the boot program. This was released before on HOWSTUFF.D64 back in 1995, but I include it here for completeness. MOMENTUM - good for high school physics class, this computes the results of elastic collision between two objects approaching each other. Type in angles of incidence, masses and velocities and so on, and the resulting momentums of the masses before and after the collision are output. NUMBER PICKER - a lottery number picker I started. It was meant to choose based on past lottery results, but I never got around to enetering any such data. Feel free to add to this, but if you win, i get half the pot... hahaha. This was included on HOWSTUFF.D64 released back in 1995, but I include it again here for completeness. The software on this disk image is freeware. Send questions and compliments to: Howard Feldman feldman@mshri.on.ca http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/people/feldman/ March 8, 2001