GoLife Beta

[Squiffy]

GoLife Beta










Anarcho Mario has released a beta of his homebrew NDS version of Conway's Game of Life, GoLife.

It supports:

_ Relativly big universe (256*192 cells)

_ Copy, cut and paste

_ Horizontal and vertical flip

_ Rotation

_ Undo

_ Different speeds

_ etc.



_ and... COMPATIBILITY WITH THE .LIF FORMAT ! Thanks to the Fatlib, you can load and save thousand of famous patterns. (some are include in the archive, but google "conway game of life patterns" will bring you a lot more)

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  Download GoLife

 

[Maktub]

Cool, but some tips about it's functions on DS would be nice!

 

[Tedorama]

Cant get this to work, tried dldi also, using SC SD

 

[Lurick]

Cool, but some tips about it's functions on DS would be nice!

Do you mean how to get it to function, or what function it's supposed to serve?

As for the latter question, Conway's Game of Life doesn't really HAVE a function/purpose, nor is it really a "game" per se. There's no object. There's no players, not even one. It's completely self-executing, and is essentially a way of watching patterns emerge on a grid with a set standard of rules that determine growth ... a "cellular automoton." It's more of a Zen, meditation thing for mathematicians and programmers than anything else.

Of course, trying to find initial "seed patterns" that evolve into something interesting is more fun that it sounds.

 

[Destructobot]

It's not working properly on my M3 Simply(1.03). The "game" runs, but the bottom screen doesn't show the zoomed view. All the other functions seem to work correctly.

 

[Maktub]

Cool, but some tips about it's functions on DS would be nice!

Do you mean how to get it to function, or what function it's supposed to serve?

As for the latter question, Conway's Game of Life doesn't really HAVE a function/purpose, nor is it really a "game" per se. There's no object. There's no players, not even one. It's completely self-executing, and is essentially a way of watching patterns emerge on a grid with a set standard of rules that determine growth ... a "cellular automoton." It's more of a Zen, meditation thing for mathematicians and programmers than anything else.

Of course, trying to find initial "seed patterns" that evolve into something interesting is more fun that it sounds.

Hehe, I know.
But I can't really make out the function of many buttons and it shows just black flashes on the top screen and not a zoomed versin of the actual lower screen.

 

[Anarcho Mario]

Hi,

destructobot, can you try my new release (http://www.punishmentpark.com/nny/doom/GoLife.zip) and tell me if you still see nothing in the zoomed view ? Apparently it was a bug in the last PAlib that corrupt the Draw16bitRect() function (at random!) but now it works.

 

[Destructobot]

That link doesn't work for me; the site keeps timing out. I'll be happy to try it if I can get it downloaded.

 

[Destructobot]

Finally got it downloaded. I only tested it briefly, but the zoomed view works now, Thanks!

 

[Anarcho Mario]

Cool. Enjoy the game !