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My Game of Life is a Cocoa-based implementation of Conway's Game of Life. This is an open source project. Source code is available at: http://code.google.com/p/my-gameoflife
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WHAT'S NEW
Version 1.0.3:
  • Automatically saves user settings:
    • Cell behaviour
    • World size and colors
    • Window size and position
  • Allow cut/copy/paste and clear selected cells.
  • Improved cycles per second indicator.
  • Added zoom level indicator.
  • Made compatible with MacOS X 10.4.
Version 1.0.2 (2007-12-31):
  • Customizable world size (up to 2046 x 1022, almost 2MB cells!).
  • Added scroll bars to navigate world view.
  • Added zoom slider on main screen.
  • Added cell cycle counter.
Version 1.0.1 (2007-12-28):
  • Added process indicator.
  • Added alive cell counter.
  • Added cycles per second indicator.
Version 1.0 (2007-12-27):
  • Initial version.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

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Developer:Eneko Alonso
Downloads:2,833
  - Version d/l:1,365
Education:Science
License:Free
Date:11 Jan 2008
Platform:Intel
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Jan 12 2008

FYREFLYE  The downloaded app. does not open on my OS X 10.4.11 intel MacBook while the golly 1.3 Mac Universal build works with no issues. Any suggestions?  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Jan 12 2008

ENEKO ALONSO  This is my first application ever in XCode. First it was only 10.5, due to some new objects I used. On this version I removed those components and tried to compile it for 10.4, but apparently I missed something.

I'll try to find what it is :)   
(Version 1.0.3)

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Jan 1 2008

PETER DA SILVA  Why on earth would this require Leopard?  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Jan 2 2008

ENEKO ALONSO  I know! It's a pain it requires Leopard.

This is because it uses the new components from XCode 3.0 for the toolbar.

I have pending to develop a version without this requirement, hopefully I'll have it soon.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Jan 3 2008

PETER DA SILVA  That's one thing that Microsoft did right. If you uses a newer component (library, what have you) in your app, you can include that component with it. Their implementation was horrible, of course, because they used simple unversioned names rather than versioned file paths to identify components (which led to DLL Hell), but the goal was sound.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Dec 31 2007

EAGLELOUK  I don't really understand what it is.. Can someone help me ? oO  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Dec 31 2007

ENEKO ALONSO  My Game of Life is a cellular automation "game". Although it is called a game, it is a zero player game, so the only thing the user can do is watch the evolution of the cells, besides modifying some cells and creating some structures.

There is more info about the history of this game and its rules at Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

Thanks for the interest for downloading this tool (my first Mac application :)  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Dec 31 2007

EAGLELOUK  looks pretty cool for your first app even if the interest of the game is not awesome :p

i'll download it.  
(Version 1.0.2)

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Jan 12 2008

FYREFLYE  Here's a page with a number of links helpful toward understanding and playing the "game:" http://www.ibiblio.org/lifepatterns/  
(Version 1.0.3)

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Dec 29 2007
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DMARCOOT  cool. like the retro LED graphics. a zoom in/out on tool ar might be nice. thanks  
(Version 1.0.1)

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