Date   : Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:10:36 +0100
From   : tom@... (Tom Seddon)
Subject: BBC mandelbrot generator (preview)

Peter:
> What are the load exec address of the machinecode in the zip file ? does
> anyone know !
>
> Peter.

The file to run is `mbb' (seems you don't need anything else). Load and
exec are &2000.

--Tom

P.S. I assembled it myself using the BASIC supplied -- in case the one on
the disc is somehow different, I've uploaded the result to
http://www.tomseddon.plus.com/beeb/mbb. Just needs the load and exec
addresses setting up.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Seddon" <tom@...>
> To: <bbc-micro@...>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 19:38
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC mandelbrot generator (preview)
>
>
>> JGH:
>>> Tom Seddon wrote:
>>>> A straightforward implementation in BBC BASIC will leave you waiting
>>>> until
>>>> hell freezes over for the initial image, but a straightforward
>>>> implementation in assembly language -- that takes only the tiniest of
>>>
>>> I'm sure I saw an assembly Mandelbrot generator published sometime
>>> in the '80s, and there's the 8BS Mandelbrot/Julie generator at
>>> http://mdfs.net/Apps/Graphics
>>
>> Thanks for the link. I'd never seen that one before. It's... much faster
>> than I was expecting :)
>>
>> (Even after running it in its most straightforward calculation mode,
>> it's
>> about twice as fast as mine! I'm going to have to work out what it's
>> doing
>> now!)
>>
>> --Tom
>>
>>
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