Description:
S.A.M. is a Springs and Masses model editor that lets you create and play with dynamic sam models, save/load them in/from the memo (and thus exchange the models with friends).
Update Description:
v2.3:
- New Features: when not in 'autoreverse mode', displays a random landscape.
- Added a new quite efficient model named 'weird'.
v2.0:
- New Features: alls colors can be changed :-)
v1.8.3:
- Bug fixes: a small memory leak.
- New features: sticky masses; when selecting a mass as the origin or target for a spring, uses the mass coordinates to anchor the spring. More cool models...
v1.8.2 - New Features:
- Copy/Cut/Select is cool, but it's better if you can move a model as a whole by doing a translation :-)
v1.3.2:
- Bug Fixes: the Zoom init was badly handled.
- New Features: A 'delete' button has been added to the 'Load World' form, so that the user can get rid of worlds without going
v1.3.1:
- Bug Fixes Only: Zoom now really zoom (it wasn't actually modifying the springs' size). Once loaded, a world's name is kept (was reset to 'untitled'.
v1.2:
- Bug fixes: mass deletion wasn't working properly yet.
- New Features: When creating a 'New World', a dialog pops up that prompts the user for world settings reset confirmation (gravity, friction, stiffness and frequency).
v1.1:
- Bugs fixes: many... The data structures have been simplified and this version should be hopefully more stable.
- New Features: Autoreverse.
Reviews:
**** [Oct 12, 2004] by Andrew
Cool. A suggestion... the models are a bit hard to see on the screen, so maybe allow customisation of the fg and bg colours in a preferences form. And maybe make the help a bit easier to find!
***** [Jun 9, 2004] by N
Awesome! Very fun. Cool capability of saving to memos, you can beam them. Only, thing, not very compatible with older palms.
*** [May 11, 2004] by Alex
I tried it on a friend's palm. It works great, but there are so many people out there who don't have OS5 devices.
**** [Apr 17, 2004] by N "Zxanphorian" P
I would rate this five stars, but it isn't for Palm OS 4.1 or down. I would rate it five stars if that happens. The site you were talking about Benedict was the soda constructor. :)
**** [Apr 17, 2004] by Benedict Hurkett
Actually, there are two things I've noticed: deleting often causes my palm to lock up, and I have to wait for it to reset. Also, it doesn't really update fast enough when you drag in play mode, so the model tends to end up distorted.
**** [Apr 17, 2004] by Crin
Cool, it's like the thing, on the website, oh I know what I mean, anyway it's awesome.
***** [Apr 16, 2004] by Benedict Hurkett
Brilliant! A bit confusing at first, but I got the hang of it quickly. A few problems putting the sample files onto the palm though (bouncer, empty world for example) - perhaps you could export them all as a memopad archive (mpa)? Lastly, this looks strangely familiar to a certain webpage. But that's a good thing.
***** [Apr 16, 2004] by Doug
This is a very cool program, thanks for the work you put into the update which took care of the bugs, at least for me it did. Keep up the great work!!!!!!
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