I haven’t got much time today, so I can only jot a note as a signpost in a search for something else.
For a while I have been wondering why I couldn’t find a version of Conway’s Game of Life for the console, outside of the demo version packed in teapot or a few semi-eponymous “life” packages intended for graphical worlds.
I did find zivot the other day, but … it’s a little less than I anticipated.
This is more of a frame-by-frame snapshot of each stage, and not so much a full animated version. It seems odd to me that I can’t find something ncurses-based that animates the sequences more gracefully. I must be overlooking it.
I guess I’ll just have to stick with worms. 😀
Zivot –or Život means life in my country Serbia, it must be some one from here that made this port of the game.
That’s a real possibility. I couldn’t seem to find a home page for it; I understood it to be quite old and perhaps the original site is lost, or hiding in archive.org.
or czech btw.. propably all slovanian language group shares this word
dblife should work with curses:
http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/science/ai/life/!INDEX.html
and there is always cage and python
http://www.alcyone.com/software/cage/
not sure if this will be a repeat post as a very brief message flashed by as I submitted my last post and that post has not appeared.
That was WordPress.com. It puts comments with links into moderation, until I can weed out any that are spam.
I know I’ve come across several, but I couldn’t easily find any I saved. A quick googling resulting in a few. The first I tried was pylife: http://davidbau.com/archives/2006/07/26/python_curses_life.html and it worked pretty well for me. I look forward to seeing what else you come up with.
Hey if I have 3Gb ram and I want to install a 64bit OS how much space should I allocate for swap?
64Mb.
down on
https://cs.senecac.on.ca/~lczegel/UNIX/lectures/lecture08/lecture08.html
there is a link for life.c using ncurses. I found it just a few days ago by accident. =)
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Google for conways life ncurses.
First hit:
http://csiuo.com/drupal/content/ncurses-life
Added it to the AUR too.
Cool, thanks. I think I might like that one best so far. It needs a few speed controls though; it’s just a blur on my core duo. 🙂
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