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- Title: MACROLIFE
- Author: Chris Taylor (chris@sati.demon.co.uk)
- Version: 1.80
- Title From: Documentation
- Author From: Documentation
- Version From: Documentation
- Supplier: Chris Taylor (chris@sati.demon.co.uk)
- Date: 19/08/95
- Keywords: Simulation software
- Shareware: No
- Machine: Archimedes
- Operating system: RISCOS
- Memory requirements:
- Peripherals needed:
- Other s/ware needed:
- Directory: micros/arch/riscos/d150
- Date mounted/updated: 28/09/95
- File names: macrolife.arc
- Unarchived files: 52
- Unarchived size: 531 kbytes
- Omissions:
- See also: LISTLIFE (c169), GOL (d003)
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- Acquiring the package:
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- Download the archive file(s) and extract using SparkPlug 2
- (see the "tools_help" file in micros/arch/riscos/tools for further info).
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- Description:
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- MacroLife is a desktop version of the famous game of Life,
- invented by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970.
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- It displays a scrollable window onto a Life plane, or grid, onto
- which you can place patterns of cells and watch how they evolve.
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- Besides running on the desktop, MacroLife offers a very large Life plane.
- It is 65,536 cells on a side, over 4 billion cells in total.
- (At 32 times magnification, the plane would cover about a square mile.)
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- Facilities are provided to assist with navigating around the plane, but
- they are only needed if you want to generate really large patterns.
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- Other features include:
- * saving, loading and editing of Life planes and regions.
- * predefined Lifeforms.
- * random field generation.
- * an option to switch to other algorithms such as '3-4' Life.
- * a provision for returning to the start position.
- * a wide range of magnifications.
- * ...
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