Game Of Life, John H. Conway

On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 11:23 AM emanuel stiebler via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote: There's a fantastic implementation of Life using the custom Amiga chipset to run the generation calculations. On hardware from 1985 (7.16MHz 68000) it was able to hit almost 20 generations per second on a medium-res screen (the 68000 just set up the playfield and let the blitter do the heavy lifting). This was *amazing* for those of us who were used to several seconds per generation at 40x25 or 80x25. It's on Fish Disk #31 CONTENTS OF DISK 31 =================== Life Executes the cellular automata game of LIFE in the blitter chip. Uses a 318 by 188 display and runs at 19.8 generations per second. Author: Tomas Rokicki Pretty neat. -ethan