"Bill Gates" Award: Chris Mills Chris Mills Pagine Corporation 1961-A Concourse Drive San Jose, CA 95131 USA Judges' comments: From the San Jose Mercury News (May 15, 1993 page 20A "West Hackers trounce East in computer quiz game"): "Since 1984, a contest has been held on Usenet for the most unreadable, creative, bizarre but working C program", Gates said. "What is the name of this contest?" "Windows," shot back Gassee, naming Microsoft's premier product - a product over which Apple sued Microsoft five years ago. Not the right answer - it's "The Obfuscated C Contest [sic]" - but it brought down the house of Apple partisans... [The expression on Bill Gates' face was a sight to behold, as reported to us by several who were there]. To use: make cmills # requires the X11 library DISPLAY="your_X_server_display" export DISPLAY ./cmills [speed] # must be run on an X11 server where: speed update speed from 1 to 9 (default is 9) Csh users should use: make cmills # requires the X11 library setenv DISPLAY "your_X_server_display" ./cmills [speed] # must be run on an X11 server You must set $DISPLAY in your environment or the program will dump core. This is not a bug as the author documented it as a feature. :-) The optional argument is integer which controls the speed of the program. By default the speed is 9. You may want to try 1. You will have to kill the program (i.e., ^C) to stop it. WARNING: Slow servers or servers with long request queues will continue to 'run' for a while after you have killed the program. This program makes your windows about as useful as their windows. :-) Selected notes from the author: The program uses a single backing pixmap (which is the size of the screen) for all of its subwindows (with a little bit of trickery to move the offset around). This is much better (and faster) than the obvious implementation which would require a full-screen pixmap and a separate backing pixmap for each subwindow. The chance that a window breaks is based on it's kinetic energy, which in turn is based on it's area and speed. How silly! Copyright (c) 1993, Landon Curt Noll & Larry Bassel. All Rights Reserved. Permission for personal, educational or non-profit use is granted provided this this copyright and notice are included in its entirety and remains unaltered. All other uses must receive prior permission in writing from both Landon Curt Noll and Larry Bassel.