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- Name : FASTLIFE.LZH Num: 27,094
- By: R*CHARLTON Date: 3/02/91 17:03
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- Title: CONWAY'S GAME OF LIFE
- Keywords: LIFE BOARD GAME CONWAY CELLULAR AUTOMATA FASTLIFE GRAPHICS BLITTER
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- F a s t L i f e
- b y
- R o n C h a r l t o n
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- Version 1.0 24-Feb-91
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- FastLife is an Amiga implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
- FastLife may be freely distributed.
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- F e a t u r e s
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- o Blitter used for high speed (19 generations/second maximum)
- o Automatic fallback to 680x0 mode when memory is low
- o Four screen sizes
- o Full Intuition interface
- o Runs from Workbench and CLI
- o Uses Heath File Requester (if you have arp.library)
- o 153 patterns in text file format
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- In 1970 John Horton Conway, a mathematician at the University of
- Cambridge, invented the game of Life. It was introduced by
- Martin Gardener in his October 1970 Scientific American column.
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- The desire to combine the speed of Tom Rokicki's blitter Life
- routines with an Intuition interface and access to many of the
- classic Life patterns led to the development of FastLife. Olaf
- Seibert's 32-bit fallback 680x0 mode allows the CPU to take over
- when there is insufficient memory to use the blitter.
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- Conway defined an infinite board for Life; FastLife limits itself
- to the screen size of the Amiga (320 by 200 to 640 by 400).
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- FastLife ALWAYS calculates the entire screen. Calculation speed is
- not dependent on how many cells are ON or OFF, but only on the
- screen size, and whether the blitter or 680x0 is used for calculation.
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- FastLife has been tested with Workbench 1.3. Its executable size is less
- than 25 kilobytes.
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- FastLife version 1.0
- Ron Charlton
- PeopleLink: R*CHARLTON
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- Executable, documentation + 153 Life pattern files
- FASTLIFE.LZH
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