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- Life - Play the game of life
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- Hardware requirements:
- A PC with an EGA/VGA and a mouse.
- A few free K's.
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- This program is a nice interface for playing the game life. It is version 1.0
- so there are still a few things to add to it, but it is fun and (I hope)
- bugless.
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- The game of life was invented in 1972 by the mathematician John Conway, and has
- since caused the waste of many many hours of computer time... oh well :-)
- The rules of the game are simple. The board is a matrix. In every place on the
- matrix, there is a cell or there isn't a cell. Every generation, all the places
- are scanned, and the numbers of live neighbors they have is counted.
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- In a place with less than 2 neighbors or more than 3, the cell will die.
- In a place with 2 neighbors, the cell will remain as it was (alive, or dead).
- In a place with 3 neighbors, a cell will be born if there wasn't one there.
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- The interface that the program provides is very simple. You can add cells with
- the left mouse button, or remove them with the right button. You can also click
- one of the boxes on the top:
- Start/Stop - To start or stop.
- Step nnnn - When you click this, the game runs. Also says the generation
- number.
- Grid - Display/hide the grid.
- Clear - Clear the board.
- Quit - Quit the game.
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- This program is shareware. You have permission to copy and distribute it as
- much as you like, but you may not charge anything for it. If you like this
- program very much, please send a donation to
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- Dan Romik
- Hanasi Harishon 35
- Rehovot 76303
- Israel
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- You do not have to send me money in order to use the program. But if you like
- this program, you would want to motivate me to keep improving the program...
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- Anyway, feel free to send any comments or suggestions too to the above address,
- or email to:
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- romik@wisdom.weizmann.ac.il (internet)
- romik@wisdom.bitnet (bitnet)
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