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A-MOS

 FREEWARE A-World Application
Windows NT/98/ME/2000/XP EXE (with complete C++ source code)
Athlon 700mhz or better suggested.

v11 May 2003


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A-MOS was a simple experiment over a weekend in May 2003 on Artificial Life/World algorithms.

It is a small C++ application that runs under Windows NT/98/2000/XP. It creates a small 170x170 map with natural resources and food then introduces 1 to 6 tribes and then proceeds to watch them as they give birth, go to war, steal and build cities. This all happens in a very abstracted fashion mind you. Never the less, the basic concept could be expanded out into an actual A-Life game if you so desire.

A-LIFE/GAME FRAMEWORK

If you're interested in such things but not a very good programmer, then you should know this can serve as the framework to build other A-Life or Gaming experiments. The complete C++ source code is included. Among other features, it uses a simple but fast flicker-free double-buffered DIB to render all the graphics. Additionally, it plays a few sounds for announcement purposes (such as entire tribes dying off).

It has little in the way of internal documentation, but I do tend to pride myself on writting clean, easy to understand code. :)

SHORT-CUT KEYS

1-6         : Changes number of tribes
BACKSPACE   : Resets sim
PAUSE       : Pauses sim
TAB         : Resumes sim
C           : Cities on
ALT-C       : Cities off
X           : Carry on
ALT-X       : Carry off
W           : War on
ALT-W       : War off
R           : Rebellion on
ALT-R       : Rebellion off
H           : Herd decisions on
ALT-H       : Herd decisions off
SCROLL      : WrapAround on
ALT-SCROLL  : WrapAround off
INSERT      : Fortune
DELETE      : Disaster
HOME        : Super-Fortune
W           : Allow Wastelands on (due to starvation. war still causes.)
ALT-W       : Wastelands off
CTRL-O      : Migration OUTWARD
CTRL-I      : Migration INWARD
CTRL-A      : Migration AGGRESSION
CTRL-C      : Migration CENTER
CTRL-H      : Migration HELTER SKELTER (global round-robin)
CTRL-P      : Migration OFF PATH (local round-robin)

V e r s i o n H i s t o r y

  • v5

    fixed the migration bug. now the paterns are very different. in default mode, it seems that tribes naturally start to pick up a swirling pattern of birth/migration. this causes wave after wave of expansion to be thrown out.

  • v4 Sunday.

    Fixed several bugs and added a few more menu options. I really should change the herd-migration routines to use a bresham line alg to get rid of the artifacting, but I really just dont have any more time to fool with it now. maybe later.

  • v3 Saturday. May 2003.

    First public release. The code is very... NEW is a good way to describe it. It's literally only something fun to do friday night/saturday afterall.

  • v2 Friday. I miss version 2 (Friday night's) because a serious bug in it caused a directional bias producing some very lovely "cloud formations" to be generated.


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