Re: A82: Life


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Re: A82: Life




ok, i have a little thing to put up to the author of this game...

great game, except one thing... the virus thingy doesn't work!! (example:)


xx xx xx xx xx
xx xx xx xx xx

xx xx xx xx xx
xx xx xx xx xx

xx xx xx xx xx
xx xx xx xx xx
     0
xx xx xx xx xx
xx xx xx xx xx

xx xx xx xx xx
xx xx xx xx xx


now, that life scheme will NOT change (the x's). if i put another one,
near the center (denoted by 0), it'd kill off everything...  but in this
version, it stays the same.  your algorithim, (how does one spell that
word?  i'm having an argument about it) is, um, not the real LIFE one.
it'd kill everything.

-Greg


On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Greg Milewski wrote:

> 
> oh, really? my version of juno (or maybe the list server) xlates it to
> uue and puts it into the message. (version 1.49)
> 
> as for the game, i was wondering when someone would make it...
> 
> -Greg
> 
>         "You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon
> airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in
> deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when
> I was young!"
>         "Why, what did she tell you?"
>         "I don't know, I didn't listen."
>                 -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
> 
> On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:24:46 EST kouri@juno.com (Kouri Rosenberg) writes:
> > Um, why don't you post it at ticalc or something. I can't get 
> >attached
> >files thru Juno.
> >
> >On Mon, 23 Mar 1998 02:07:40 -0700 Bryan Catanzaro 
> ><natrium@cs.byu.edu>
> >writes:
> >>
> >>I wrote the classic life simulation for ASH... here it is in case 
> >>anyone
> >>is interested.
> >>
> >>
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