are you using strict mode?
...yes, does this alter anything? you got me interested so i commented it out and the assembler errored out on "case default" - my bad, shouldn't have left "case" in there. fixing that it now complains about my const's not being constant (which is odd...) unless i bring strict back, then it goes back to complaining about my label... hmm?
mikkel: hi there! respected you ever since your work in blitzmax (lol am i the only one sad enough to read the credits in the back of a manual???). never thought i'd meat you on a forum though...
anyhoo, to be honest i'm not sure what you mean by using seperate functions - due to the deprication of gosub i've had to change a fair amount to this structure, but its still about the simplest i could think of. in its original form i did indeed use seperate routines, but to keep from having to globally declare those statics i thought it best to merge the two. do you have a simpler solution?
the algorithm btw, is much like that of the classic "game of life", where a particle is only born if the surrounding particles are adequate. this function simply checks the surrounding particles (its been so long since my original implementation of it that these days i have no idea what exactly its looking for, lol. i really should get into the habit of commenting my code...).
cheers.