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Superhop ACTION!

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 [ Table of Contents ] [ Disk Image ]  From  page 20  of  Antic Magazine August 1989 Volume 8 Number 4 . Superhop ACTION! Faster fractals grow in your Atari By Douglas Skrecky Watch elegant fractal patterns come alive onscreen at top speed with this fast and friendly ACTION! program. It works on 8-bit Atari computers with at least 48K memory and disk drive. If you are typing in the program, you will need the ACTION! cartridge from ICD. But if you own this month's Antic Disk, you will find a version that runs without the special cartridge. In May, 1987, Antic published my fractal generating program Dot Hopper . That program used floating point arithmetic and was written in BASIC. Consequently, it was quite slow. After playing with the ACTION! cartridge for awhile, I realized that floating point calculations were completely unnecessary for this language. Between ACTION!'s inherent speed and integer arithmetic, I found that the program could be made to run many times faster tha