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!MacroLife/LifeForms/Others/!Catalogue
This website contains an archive of files for the Acorn Electron, BBC Micro, Acorn Archimedes, Commodore 16 and Commodore 64 computers, which Dominic Ford has rescued from his private collection of floppy disks and cassettes.
Some of these files were originally commercial releases in the 1980s and 1990s, but they are now widely available online. I assume that copyright over them is no longer being asserted. If you own the copyright and would like files to be removed, please contact me.
| Tape/disk: | Home » Archimedes archive » Acorn User » AU 1995-07.adf » !Life_MacroLife |
| Filename: | !MacroLife/LifeForms/Others/!Catalogue |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 031A bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
# # This file provides help messages for the Lifeforms in this directory. # Acorn: The Acorn grows erratically for 5206 generations. Chevron: An interesting symmetrical pattern. Eater: It eats spaceships, really. It can also eat nearby still lifes. Eater2: Another Lifeform with an appetite. GliderGen: A glider generator. GliderMirr: You can use this to 'bounce' gliders from the glider gun. MacroLife: Good for demonstrating replication in Fredkin's Game. MakeFuse: Making a 'fuse'. This can then be lit.... MaxGrowth: A 'space-filler' , this is the fastest growing pattern known. PiFuse: A complex fuse using the Pi heptomino. Rabbit: A very prolific pattern... Spiral: A busy glider with an impossible task.
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