Gauss!
Publisher: CodeWorks - CursorGenre: Maths
Programmer: Glen Fisher
Year: 1979
Language: (Unknown)
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The keyboard graphic responds to mouse clicks, touch events, and key presses.
Hold your shift key while clicking the PET keyboard to get the graphics
characters.
(The emulator simulates pressing the PET's left shift-key at the
same time as the clicked key.)
Changing the size of memory or changing the ROM version forces a reset of the PET.
The emulator has an IEEE-488 device at address 8. It can be used load and save (.prg) files.
Some programs don't run on ROM1 and some require more memory than the default 8K.
Game Notes
May include inaccurate AI generated content
GAUSS! simulates a binomial distribution experiment. PETSCII balls are released from the left edge of the screen and bounce randomly through a pegboard to land in one of the twelve containers on the right. The PET keeps track of the results. This simulation is slow: it runs in BASIC and the animations slow it down even more, so it runs at a rate of 1,000 balls per hour. If you want to see interesting results, you'll need to leave this one running for a while.
This program has sound, because, according to the flyer, "a PET without sound is like a day without sunshine". GAUSS! uses frequency to represent the height of each ball with high and low "beeps" sounding every time a ball strikes a peg or lands in a slot. After a few iterations, the novelty of the sound effects wore off—to be brutally honest, I found the beeps annoying. Fortunately, Fisher provides a hotkey that mutes the simulation.
This program has sound, because, according to the flyer, "a PET without sound is like a day without sunshine". GAUSS! uses frequency to represent the height of each ball with high and low "beeps" sounding every time a ball strikes a peg or lands in a slot. After a few iterations, the novelty of the sound effects wore off—to be brutally honest, I found the beeps annoying. Fortunately, Fisher provides a hotkey that mutes the simulation.
