Re: Interesting one-line BASIC program

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Tony Kavadias wrote:
> On 2008-03-30 00:09:56 +1100, aiiadict@gmail.com said:
>
> > On Mar 29, 4:13 am, Jake Featherston <Jake_Feathers...@comcast.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > (I actually expected others would have
> > > been like "yeah, I tried that before too!")
> > >
> > > You guys are a bunch of wet blankets!
> >
> >
> > nah...  I think the only people who can "appreciate" the
> > effects of your "code" have already experienced the apple
> > II...  They've already written a basic program that pokes
> > over the top of itself, already accidently switched video
> > modes, etc etc...
> >
> > Rich
>
>
> The closest thing I did to that program is restrict it to
> within the high-res screen space, to see what image it could
> come up with, using AppleSoft's pseudo-random number gen.
>
> But then I moved on to more interesting matters... ;)

100 HGR2 : HCOLOR= 3
110 HPLOT 279*RND(1),191*RND(1)
120 GOTO 110

is one of my favorite little programs.  It happily
paints the hi-res screen with dots until the screen
stops changing--demonstrating the short period of
the Applesoft random number generator.

I find it interesting that just by looking at the
screen fixedly, you can easily determine when it is
no longer turning on any new points--humans are good
recognizers of small movements!

-michael

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