Hi! Some time I was looking for an old program called xspringies as debian package. I didn't find it, so I took the change to build my first package.
You can find the files here: http://msg.ucsf.edu/~haase/debian/xspringies/ The Despcription (control-file !?) goes like this Source: xspringies Section: games Priority: optional Package: xspringies Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Description: Amazing simulation of classical mass and spring systems XSpringies is a mass and spring simulation system. It's intended use is more like that of a game, than some design package. It's written using Xlib only. No Motif or any other widgets sets are used. The animation in XSpringies is done using an off-screen Pixmap. The next frame is drawn on this pixmap, then is blitted onto the screen. Since the frame rate is about 30 frames per second, slower machines (or machines which have poorly written bit-blitting code) will be deathly slow and blinky. But now, in the days of fast happy machines, you might find yourself turning down the timestep some so you can see what's going on.. I hope people find this program fun !! Let me know what further I can do about this. I just wanted to have some more people to look at this - and maybe someone might even want to take this package over. (As far as I know it's not developed upstream anymore - and it's GPL) Thanks, Sebastian Haase
