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- T H I S I S F R E E W A R E !
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- "Life" program, by Charles W. Reace, Jr., Berlin, NJ.
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- This is a fairly simple C++ program I wrote to help teach myself programming
- in C. It is the now veneralble game of life, where each "*" on the display
- screen represents a cell of life on some theoretical growth medium. A few
- simple rules determine whether each cell lives, dies, and/or creates life in
- adjacent cells.
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- Each instantiation of this program will run until 200 generations have
- elapsed, or until the population reaches 0; at which point a new random start-
- ing pattern will be generated and it all starts over again. Pressing any key
- will abort the program.
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- The source code is included in this zipfile. Please feel free to make copies
- of all files and distribute as desired, without any alterations. Please also
- feel free to edit the source (compiled with Borland's Turbo C++ for the PC)
- to make any enhancements and then distribute under your own name. Perhaps
- you might turn it into a screen-saver program, using a different color scheme
- each instantiation.
-