make alt
We recommend that you use the alt version to see what the entry looked like back in 1996. For the original version see the original code section.
./eldby.alt
To quit send intr (typically ctrl-c).
NOTE: to reset the sanity of your terminal after this program ends try reset
.
This alternate version, which we recommend that you use in order to see what is
happening with modern systems, and to not flash too quickly, which can be
problematic for some people, can be configured to different speeds by way of the
value used in usleep()
. The default is 35000
but you can easily change
it. To do so try:
make SLEEP=20000 clobber alt
./eldby.alt
This version is the original which has no sleep time in between updates.
make all
Use ./eldby
as you would ./eldby.alt
above.
We were impressed by the author’s ability to render spheres in 3D in a very small chunk of code.
This program shows flying spheres. The program eats CPU on lesser equipped systems. The program will run until termination. Terminal must be VT100 or better with 80 columns and 24 rows or more.