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!MacroLife/LifeForms/Puffers/!Catalogue
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Acorn User » AU 1995-07.adf » !Life_MacroLife |
| Filename: | !MacroLife/LifeForms/Puffers/!Catalogue |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 0427 bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
# # This file provides help messages for the Lifeforms in this directory. # BackRake: A variation of the Space Rake which fires backwards. DoubleRake: A variation of the Space Rake which fires two streams of gliders. Engine1: The block stabilises the exhaust and this switch engine runs forever. Engine2: This switch engine has an exhaust composed entirely of blocks. MWSS-Puffr: A puffer train which fires middleweight spaceships backwards. MWSS-Rake: A space rake which fires middleweight spaceships upwards. NearlyShip: If only the following pattern had a slightly bigger appetite... NoahsArk: Two switch engines together leave a menagerie of Lifeforms. Puffer: The original puffer train, this produces a huge plume of exhaust. PulsarPuff: Just what the description implies. SlowPuff: This one leaves a very thin trail of 'smoke'. SpaceRake: A modification of the puffer train which produces a wave of gliders. Stretcher: An 'electric fence' stretcher. Computer search found both ends. TyreTracks: A double 'boat' stretcher.
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Com| 000003e0 70 75 74 65 72 20 73 65 61 72 63 68 20 66 6f 75 |puter search fou| 000003f0 6e 64 20 62 6f 74 68 20 65 6e 64 73 2e 0a 54 79 |nd both ends..Ty| 00000400 72 65 54 72 61 63 6b 73 3a 20 20 41 20 64 6f 75 |reTracks: A dou| 00000410 62 6c 65 20 27 62 6f 61 74 27 20 73 74 72 65 74 |ble 'boat' stret| 00000420 63 68 65 72 2e 0a 0a |cher...| 00000427
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