Conway's Game of Life - (very) old and new implementations. In memory of Conway. Resources:
- https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jul/23/john-horton-conway-the-most-charismatic-mathematician-in-the-world
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life
https://csdb.dk/release/?id=104384&show=summary
- Conway's Game of Life in 256 bytes. Double buffering, custom font and Boulder Dash-esque music
http://www.airport1.de/life.htm (currently missing here)
- 5,25" disk to be found, to be extracted and code to be added
- was code ever saved to a (e.g. backup) harddisk?
- maybe available as emulator disk file? (.d64, .t64)
- Crossbow/Crest might have a copy
- 13 pages of notes
- re-found via http://web.archive.org/web/20040609070923/http://www.handysms.de/life/lifedoc1.htm
- notes even say the project was started 1993 (age 16?!)
- additional notes to be found and to be added (DIN A4)
- very few lines of code
- copy grid first, then update changed cells only
- not released yet (currently missing here)