v3.1.1 - More bugfixes

What's Changed

• More bugfixes in #18

Full Changelog: v3.1.0...v3.1.1

v3.1.0 - Bug fixes

What's Changed

• Bugfixes - General improvements in #16

Full Changelog: v3.0...v3.1.0

Extra

I have written JUnit tests to provide reassurance that the machine works. You can see if the tests pass in the README, with tha badge.

v3.0 - Stable

What's Changed

• Added a help button to see the keybindings (issue #3 )
• Completed and improved issue #4
• Fixed issue #8
• Fixed issue #9

About this release

This is a stable release, meaning that everything works as intended and (in theory) should not contain any major bugs.

v3.0.2-alpha (Bug fixes)

Bug fixes + Added a verbose flag for the headless mode

What's Changed

• Verbose output, fixed bug and more by @margual56 in #10

Full Changelog: v3.0.1-alpha...v3.0.2-alpha

v3.0.1-alpha

What's Changed

• Added CLI options
  • You can now run in headless mode! (Print the output of the program and exit: no GUI, no problem)
  • You can print the help
  • You can print an example program directly from the CLI
• Improved animation speed formula (not perfect yet)

by @margual56 in Pull Request #7

Full Changelog: v3.0-alpha...v3.0.1-alpha

Redesign! New tape and new haed

There is a new tape and a new head 😃

Improvements:

• Now the tape moves instead of the head
• Colors in the tape! Visual feedback on the elements of the tape that have a value of 1
• The tape is animated! There are "smooth" transitions
• The current state is displayed in the head too
• Made room for the keybinding cheatsheet
• The head is 100% procedually generated (using vertices), in order to keep the filesize to a minimum

Known bugs:

• When going from "moving right" to "moving left", the animation kinda jumps and it looks awful

Added speed controls

Added the ability to speed up / slow down the speed of the simulation.

Controls:

• spacebar -> pause/resume (or restart if the execution has finished)
• right arrow -> Advance just one instruction forward
• enter -> Jump to the end of the execution
• r -> Stop, load a new program and run it
• ESC -> Exit cleanly
• + -> Increase speed
• - -> Decrease speed
• = -> Restore initial speed

Improved controls

This is the new mapping of controls:

• spacebar -> pause/resume (or restart if the execution has finished)
• right arrow -> Advance just one instruction forward
• enter -> Jump to the end of the execution
• r -> Stop, load a new program and run it
• ESC -> Exit cleanly

Turing machine - fully working

Ported the whole project to java, using Processing's core.jar library. This allowed me to ask for a Turing Machine program file on startup.
This also allowed me to export as a .jar, which is cross-platform. Enjoy!

Future versions might include some extra functionality such as a menu to change programs or something similar.

Turing Machine

Download the version for your system and enjoy!

Notes

• Check out the "Examples" folder from the repository, it contains cool examples of Turing Machine code :)
• The windows version does not need java to execute (it is included)
• The rest of systems need to install java 8 in order to execute it

Known bugs

• There is no option to choose the file to execute (yet). At the moment, you have to put the program you want to run in the same folder as the .exe and rename it to "program.tm". This is the first priority fix.
• There is no UI to adjust the speed of execution or customize anything (font size, colors, etc).
• If the tape becomes too long, there is no scroll option