1) STRUCTURE OF THE EXAMPLES (files XXX.ANT)

The enclosed file "Ed-Pegg.ant" contains the codes you did send me some time ago;
I just reordered them as in your turmite-page, putting at the end the codes with no
corresponding image. As unique modification to the code-structure I added at the end
something like:
 // name for the turmite

Also included are four others files .ant, containing some of my preferred laws; some
file-names use shortcuts: HW stays for High-Way, BC for Binary Counter.

The program "My_Ant.exe" searches in its directory any file with extension ".ant"
and asks the user which one must be used; once the choice has been done, it like
"SomeName.ant" and tries to decode its content; then leaves the user choose a code in
the list. The files .ant can be modified with any editor (they are pure Ascii files)
and new files .ant can be added; concerning theyr structure I want to point out that:

- The structure of the laws follows exactly your code;

- for the moment, blank lines and comments (other than a name for the ant) are forbidden;

- the names for the files .ant should respect the old Dos restrictions
  (8 chars max, with no spaces, commas, & and so on)




2) STRUCTURE OF THE PROGRAM (file My_Ant.exe)

It is written in Pascal, and compiled with Turbo-pascal V5 of Borland. The compiler
being old, the resulting compiled files often can not work in a Dos-Window: they work
only in full-screen mode and, if one brings them in a window (using Alt-Enter), one
gets a message like:

The program will be suspended until you will go back to the full screen with "Alt-Enter".

Because of the compiler's age, there are also restrictions on the memory; thus the
cells of the Universe are stored nowhere: it is just the color of the pixels on the
screen that determines the state of each cell. This bounds the size of the universe,
that is treated as a torus.

No help-file is provided, all the needed instructions being given inside the program;
I hope they will be sufficient...



3) OTHER

The periodicity of the universe interfers of course in most cases with the study of
the long-time behaviour; on the other hand it can give rise to beautiful effects; e.g.
the Fibonacci-spiral does fantastic things when the torus has been filled.

Another example I like a lot is the first one in the file "period.ant": I called it
"Must_see_it" and of course it could work the same in an infinite universe if we put in
the mound a few non-blank cells!!

