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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Extended help ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- Life Saver - An OS/2 2.x Screen Saving Utility
- Copyright (c) 1993 by Larry Salomon, Jr.
- All rights reserved.
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- Life Saver is a screen saver that runs in the background without disturbing
- your other applications. As long as the foreground session is the Presentation
- Manager, Life Saver will prevent monitor burnout by switching to a black screen
- with the Game of Life in progress after a specified amount of time has elapsed
- with no activity from the mouse or keyboard.
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- Related information
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- o Game of Life
- o Settings
- o Buttons
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Game of Life ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The Game of Life is an ancient computer science exercise in which you have a
- two-dimensional "universe" containing spaces that either contain an "organism"
- or are empty. After each unit of time, the entire board is scanned and the next
- state of the board is determined according to the following rules:
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- If the current space is occupied and the number of occupied adjacent spaces
- is...
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- o ...0 or 1 the organism dies of loneliness.
- o ...2 or 3 the organism continues to live.
- o ...4 or more the organism dies of overcrowding.
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- If the current space is unoccupied and the number of occupied adjacent spaces
- is...
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- o ...0 or 1 the space remains empty because there are not enough parent
- organisms.
- o ...2 or 3 a new organism is born.
- o ...4 or more the space remains empty because of overcrowding.
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- The spawning and death of organisms happens instantaneously; thus, an organism
- spawned in a turn cannot then be a parent to an adjacent space in the same
- turn.
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- It is highly likely that, after a finite amount of time, the universe enters
- statis and does not evolve any further. To avoid this, "floaters" are
- introduced periodically. A floater is a group of organisms that, by nature of
- their arrangement, cycle through a small set of patterns and move a space or
- more in the process.
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- It is also possible that the universe will die altogether; nothing is done
- about this condition.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Settings ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The settings that can be adjusted are listed below:
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- Timeout The amount of inactivity (measured in minutes:seconds) that must
- elapse before the screen saver assumes control.
- Disable... Specifies that inactivity should not be monitored.
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- Remember that changes to the settings do not take effect until either Set or
- Apply is also selected.
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- ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ <hidden> Buttons ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ
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- The buttons at the bottom of the Settings panel are listed below:
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- Set Saves the current settings to be used the next time Life Saver
- is started.
- Apply Uses the current settings but does not save them.
- Undo Resets the setting values to reflect the values currently being
- used.
- Help Displays this help.
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