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llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
 Posted - 18 Jan 2003 : 08:43:41
i'm fascinated by it... Conway's Game of Life and I just found a LifeLab carbon app for OSX... anybody else in the mla know about Life?the client is here:
http://www.trevorrow.com/lifelab/ -------------
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G4from128k
Full Member
USA
873 Posts |
Posted - 18 Jan 2003 : 09:32:46
 The Game of Life.... AAAAHHH!! ....now that brings back fond memories from 25 years ago and Martin Gardner's old Mathematical Games columns in Scientific American. When I got my 128k ("Little Mac") back in '84, I also found a simple Life app for it that very slowly ran about a 25 x 50 cell space.My favorite configuration was the Glider Gun. Enjoy Life, G4From128k by Day: Mild-Mannered Engineer and Trapeze(tm) Artist
by Night: Colonel of Truth, Justice, and the Macintosh Way
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llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 16:02:18
actually, ive developed quite an addiction to it this weekend. I found a pattern online where someone figured out how to make a universal turing machine using the life rules... its crazy.-------------
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~Coxy
Leader, Tactical Ops Unit
Australia
2822 Posts |
Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 18:10:07
My friend wrote a version of The Game of Life in *Haskell*.  It's pretty horrific, and slow to boot! You watch the cursor scroll down the lines (it's ASCII based...), updating as it goes. ~Coxy - Leader, Tactical Operations Unit
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The Lightning Stalker
Full Member
USA
747 Posts |
Posted - 21 Jan 2003 : 12:40:44
That's a weird little game. I could never figure out how some of the larger patterns worked.The Lightning Stalker 68k Macs liberated so far: Cat Piss Performa 631CD
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the game of life
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