FastLife
by
Ron Charlton
Version 2.7 16-Jan-1994
FastLife is an Amiga implementation of Conway's Game of Life.
FastLife may be freely distributed.
NOTE - Kickstart 2.04+ and reqtools.library 38+ (included) are required
to run FastLife 2.7. FastLife will not run with Kickstart 1.3. It has not
been tested with Kickstart 3.0, but should work okay. It should run on
any Amiga but has been tested only on an Amiga 3000.
F e a t u r e s
o Full Intuition interface
o Uses Tomas Rokicki's ultra-fast Life v6.2 routines
o Random field creation
o Torus option
o Any screen width and height (dependent on memory and mode)
o Screen mode and screen size requester
o Speed control
o Run for a specified number of generations
o Run to a specified generation
o Runs from Workbench and CLI under Kickstart 2.04+
o 200+ Life patterns in text file format
In 1970 John Horton Conway, a mathematician at the University of
Cambridge, invented the game of Life. Conway's goal was to create a
board "game" with simple rules that would exhibit complex behavior.
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.
FastLife has been tested with Workbench 2.1, Enforcer and MungWall.
Note - FastLife needs FAST RAM (as well as CHIP RAM) to be truly fast.
Ron Charlton
Internet: <charlton@cs.utk.edu> or <charltoncr@ornl.gov>
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