Fractals with MIDletPascal

[Jimmy Valavanis]

Hi, I was playing around with MIDletPascal, and I've managed to make my first program: a simple Mandel.

I didn't test it on a phone, I used the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit 2.5.2 emulator. I seems to work!

The download links is:

http://www.easy-share.com/1906875173/Mandel.rar

[Brainer]

Here's how it looks on Sony Ericsson K770i.
http://i26.tinypic.com/19nhmv.jpg

Is it normal that the app closes after a few seconds?

[Jimmy Valavanis]

So, it works!
Yes, it's normal closing after a few seconds, I'm just figuring out keyboard handling with MIDletPascal, it's my very first attempt to make a program for a cell phone.
MIDletPascal seems to be a nice compiler, it worths a try to try make a game with it. I'm just in the beginning and have many things to figure out, the greatest problem that I have right now is dynamic memory magnagment and pointer usage that doesn't seem to be supported , but maybe I'm asking for a lot....

[salliborm12]

Old cell phones used to have antennas sticking out of them (for voice only). Modern phones have many functions that need separate antenna for each frequency of operation. Imagine having 4 5 antennas sticking out of your shit. Modern cell phones antennas are based on a a fractal design which for some reason (surface area, i think) is able to receive all the frequencies in one antenna. The guy who designed this happened to see a lecture of Mandelbrot's and thought about a problem he had back home in his boston apartment. His landlord did not like him having antennas sticking out the window so he figured if he bent his antennas in a 'fractal pattern' he could hide them by making them much smaller. What he found is that it greatly increased the frequencies it could receive.

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