At 05.10 11/07/2008, Bill wrote:
What have you done with Life using modern computers?
Er... not so modern, but... I wrote a Life program in Z80 assembler
to exercise the emulator on an HP 64000A development system... it was
in 1981 :-)
Life was ideated by J.H. Conway in 1970. See
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marco IK1ODO -2
writes:
Life was ideated by J.H. Conway in 1970. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life . Fascinating
(to me) as it was 27 years ago. Sorry for the OT!
Actually, the idea is much older (WWII), and like so much else,
comes from
Bruce wrote.
However this adds considerable complexity and would be much easier to
implement in a CPLD or FPGA.
John and I have a design sketch based on a CoolRunner-2 CPLD that we have
been kicking around as a potential TAPR board. The CR2 is nice in that the
flip flops can be clocked on
christopher hoover wrote, in part,
John and I have both been preoccupied with Life over the last N months
and haven't gotten back to the project yet.
I can identify with that. Back in the 70's, Life was a cellular automata
display on primitive computers. I wrote a routine to plot the population
