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LIFE + BY JOHN CONWAY AND MANTIS - LIFE + BY JOHN CONWAY AND MANTIS - LIFE + HELP PAGE!!! (MANTIS '89) ---------------------------------- WHEN YOU START UP "LIFE#, IT'LL TAKE WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE SCREEN + USE IT AS A STARTING FORMATION... IF, DURING THE EVOLUTION, YOU PRESS A KEY, THE MODE INDICATOR CHANGES... THIS MEANS THAT LIFE IS WAITING FOR A KEYPRESS FROM THE FOLLOWING TABLES.... S : RESTART EVOLUTION + : SINGLE-STEP THROUGH EVOLUTION P : PRINT OUT CURRENT GENERATION F1: OFF/ON FX (SPEEDS UP EVOLUTION) F7: MODIFY CURRENT GENERATION... A : AURA AROUND CELLS OFF/ON _ : RESET GENERATION COUNTER - : + ; SCROLL SCREEN ABOUT / (PRESS A KEY ("P# TO PRINT THIS)) - LIFE + HELP PAGE 2... MODIFY!! --------------------------------- WHEN MODIFY MODE IS ACTIVATED (KEY F7), A CURSOR APPEARS IN THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER AND CAN BE MOVED ABOUT AVEC LA JOYSTICK. PRESSING FIRE WILL ACTIVATE THE CURRENT FUNCTION, EITHER CREATE OR DESTROY A CELL, ACCORDING TO THE RIGHT- MOST ICON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. MORE KEYBOARD CONTROLS ARE AVAILABLE HERE..... F5: RETURN FROM MODIFY MODE M : MEMORISE AN ENTIRE GENERATION R : REMEMBER A MEMORISED GENERATION CLR/HOME: MURDER AN ENTIRE GENERATION OF HELPLESS CELLS!! (BASTARD) SPACE: SWAP CREATE/DESTROY FUNCTION O.K., THAT'S ALL THE INSTRUX, NOW FOR SOME LIFEFORMS... (PRESS A KEY) - LIFEFORMS.... MANTIS '89!!! ----------------------------- NOTE: THESE MAY BE TURNED AROUND, PUT UPSIDE DOWN, ETC. BUT WILL ALL GROW IN THE SAME WAY. SOME STABLE ** * ** ** ** - ORMATIONS... ** * * * * * * * * * ** ** * * SOME PERIOD 2 ** STABLES... ** (A.K.A. *** * *** BLINKERS) * *** ** (A PERIOD 3 STABLE FORMATION WILL BE DETAILED L8R!) A COUPLE OF * ** SMALL LIFEFORMS: * ** *** ** GLIDER DELTA (KEY) - THE GLIDER MOVES ACROSS THE SCREEN, IN A PERIOD 4 MOVEMENT... * * -> * * -> * -> * -> * ETC. *** ** * * ** * * ** ** *** MEANWHILE, THE DELTA (SO NAMED, BECAUSE THE FIRST TIME I SAW IT IT LOOKED LIKE A "D#), IS AN ORGANISM TOO BIG TO EXIST ON THE SCREEN. HOWEVER, YOU CAN SEE ITS GROWTH FROM ITS EMBRYONIC STAGE: * ** ** ** *** ** ** * * ** -> * -> * -> * -> * -> ETC. ** *** ** ** * * * ** ** (KEY) - LAST, BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST, THERE'S THE "JELLYFISH# FORMATION.... THIS IS A PERIOD 3 BLINKER, FORMED BY THE CLOSE FORMATION OF 2 EXPLOSIONS. A SMALLISH FORMATION WHICH RESULTS IN THIS ANIMAL IS THIS... * ******* * ANYWAY, THERE'S A FEW ANIMALS... NOW FIND SOME YOURSELF!! CONVERTED TO THE '64 BY MANTIS 1988-89 ORIGINAL PROG BY JOHN CONWAY ** NEWSFLASH **... SINCE I WROTE THESE, 2 NEW KEYS WERE ADDED TO THE LIST... NAMELY: G : TO CHANGE CELLTYPES C=: TO RETURN TO BASIC, AND H : FOR HELPSHEETS MUTATE AND SURVIVE!! - (PRESS "H# FOR HELPSHEETS) (M)OZCAR WILDE ONCE SAID "IF YOU'RE TIRED OF LONDON, YOU'RE TIRED OF LIFE#. WELL FAT BLOODY CHANCE MATE! LOOKING AT THIS L8EST TNT-PRODUXION, JOHN CONWAY'S LIFE SHOULD LAST FOR A WHILE AFTER THE CITY OF LONDON IS RELEGATED TO THE PAINT DRYING DIVISION. YUP, THIS IS A REMIX OF THAT FING THAT ALL MY FELLOW GERIATRIX OUT THERE MIGHT REMEMBER FROM THE ATARI/ZX81/VIC DAYS - DRAWING PATTERNS ON THE SCREEN, RUNNING THE PROG, AND WAITING AGES FOR EACH GENERATION. AK-SHULLY, I GOT RID OF MY PUBLIC DOMAIN COPY OF LIFE AAAGES AGO, AND WHEN I DECIDED TO SPEW THIS DEMO, I COULDN'T FIND A LISTING ANYWHERE. EVENTUALLY, I FOUND A DESCRIPTION OF THE ALGORITHM IN A REALLY SHIT BOOK I FOUND IN THE DUBLIN CENTRAL LIBRARY AND WROTE UP A LITTLE ROUTINE..... THAT WAS WHERE I HEARD ABOUT GLIDERS, GLIDER GUNS, AND GLIDER DESTROYERS FOR THE FIRST TIME! WOW! TALK ABOUT NEW TRIX FOR OLD DOGS! BUT ENUFF ABOUT THAT. BY THE WAY, THE COMMODORE KEY CAN BE USED TO LEAVE AND RE-ENTER THE PROGRAM, IF YOU PREFER CURSOR CONTROLS TO JOYSTIX. A TERRIBLE THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO MY SCROLLEDITOR, BY THE WAY.... I USUALLY WRITE MY S-TEXTS AGES AFTER THE DEMOS, WHICH CREATES GARGANTUAN PROBLEMS, LEMME TELL YA! BUT ANYWAY, I DECIDED TO FINISH UP THIS PROG SO T.N.T. COULD RELEASE IT, AND I WENT TO LOAD IT UP.... AND THE F**KING DISK WOULDN'T WORK!!! IT TURNED OUT THAT THE HEADER FOR BLOCK 18,1 WAS PHUQUED, SO I HAD TO WRITE A PROG THAT READS DATA IN BLOCK BY BLOCK AND STICKS IT INTO MEMORY, AND USE IT TO LOAD THIS PROGRAM (HMM... I'LL DO A BRAYBROOK AND THINK UP A NAME FOR THIS PROCESS.... GOT IT! SUPRALOAD, BECAUSE INSTEAD OF JUST ACCEPTING THE DATA FROM THE DISK CONTROLLER, L'ORDINATEUR UPSTAGES IT AND DOES ALL THE TRACK CHANGES ITSELF)!! PHEW! WOT A COCKUP, BUT IT'S NOT AS BAD AS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE T.N.T. INTRO THREW A WOBBLY - THAT TIME, I HAD TO FIND BLOCKS THAT I RECOGNISED AND WORK BACKWARDS THROUGH THE PROG UNTIL I WAS 1 IN FRONT OF THE TRASHED SECTOR - A REAL PAIN IN THE ARSE BECAUSE, SINCE THERE AREN'T ANY INDEX BYTES GOING BACKWARDS AND YOU HAVE TO GUESSTIMATE... A RIGHT BASTARD!! ANYWAY, GET FIDDLING ABOUT WITH THOSE CELLS AND BUILD SOME GROOVY ANIMALS... IF YOU GET ANY REALLY INTERESTING ONES, ESPESH SELF-REPLICATING OR GLIDER-EATING ONES, I'D LOVE TO HEAR.... THE ADRESS?? HERE IT COMES.... "CARBERY#, CHURCHFIELD, SKERRIES, CO. DUBLIN, IRELAND, FONE: 0001-491842... IF YOU MISSED DAT, CHECK OUT $6680. WRITE TO ME IF YOU'RE A CODER, OR WRITE TO EXOCET (ADDRESS AT $6680 ALSO) IF YOU'RE INTO TRADING...... ANYWAY, THAT'S ABOUT IT.... SEE YA, AND REMEMBER..... MUTATE AND SURVIVE! - WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW? ADDRESSES? YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY, ALL THEY EVER WANT IS ADDRESSES,ADDRESSES ADDRESSES! YOU KNOW YOUNG MAN, YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY YOU CAN WRITE! IN MY DAY, ALL WE HAD WAS MASTURBATION TO KEEP US HAPPY. WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? "SHUT UP YOU OLD FART"? OH ALL RIGHT... GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE......... EXOCET!!!!! 86 MANURE PARK, RUSH, CO. DUBBBBLIN, IRELAND. POEN 0001-437741 AND ASK FOR THE PERP. MANTIS!!!!! "CARBERY", CHURCHFIELD, SKERRIES, CO. DUBLIN, IRELAND. FOWAN: 0001-491842 AND ASK FOR THE UTTERLY FANTASTIC PROGRAMMER THAT YOU'D LIKE TO OFFER LOADSA BRILL JOBS TO. - LIFE + BY JOHN CONWAY AND MANTIS - 0LIFE + HELP PAGE - $WHEN YOU START UP "LIFE#, IT'LL TAKE - $WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE SCREEN + USE IT - 7AS A STARTING FORMATION - IF, DURING THE EVOLUTION, YOU PRESS A KEY, THE MODE INDICATOR CHANGES - THIS MEANS THAT LIFE IS WAITING FOR A KEYPRESS FROM THE FOLLOWING TABLES - = 5S : RESTART EVOLUTION - !+ : SINGLE-STEP THROUGH EVOLUTION - P : PRINT OUT CURRENT GENERATION - #F1: OFF/ON FX (SPEEDS UP EVOLUTION) - =F7: MODIFY CURRENT GENERATION - <A : AURA AROUND CELLS OFF/ON - <_ : RESET GENERATION COUNTER - 3SCROLL SCREEN ABOUT - !(PRESS A KEY ("P# TO PRINT THIS)) - 2LIFE + HELP PAGE 2 - WHEN MODIFY MODE IS ACTIVATED (KEY F7), A CURSOR APPEARS IN THE BOTTOM LEFT - %CORNER AND CAN BE MOVED ABOUT AVEC LA - %JOYSTICK. PRESSING FIRE WILL ACTIVATE - THE CURRENT FUNCTION, EITHER CREATE OR DESTROY A CELL, ACCORDING TO THE RIGHT- MOST ICON AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN. MORE KEYBOARD CONTROLS ARE AVAILABLE - ;F5: RETURN FROM MODIFY MODE - !M : MEMORISE AN ENTIRE GENERATION - #R : REMEMBER A MEMORISED GENERATION - %CLR/HOME: MURDER AN ENTIRE GENERATION - =OF HELPLESS CELLS!! (BASTARD) - #SPACE: SWAP CREATE/DESTROY FUNCTION - %O.K., THAT'S ALL THE INSTRUX, NOW FOR - .SOME LIFEFORMS - 1 -(PRESS A KEY) - %NOTE: THESE MAY BE TURNED AROUND, PUT - #UPSIDE DOWN, ETC. BUT WILL ALL GROW - 0IN THE SAME WAY. - !*C* -SOME PERIOD 2 - $(A PERIOD 3 STABLE FORMATION WILL BE - .DETAILED L8R!) - 0SMALL LIFEFORMS: - < THE GLIDER MOVES ACROSS THE SCREEN, IN A PERIOD 4 MOVEMENT - <MEANWHILE, THE DELTA (SO NAMED, BECAUSE THE FIRST TIME I SAWB IT - LOOKED LIKE A "D#), IS AN ORGANISM TOO BIG TO EXIST ON THE SCREEN. HOWEVER, YOU CAN SEE - $ITS GROWTH FROM ITS EMBRYONIC STAGE: - SO-CALLED "GLIDER GUNS" EXIST, ALTHO' I'VE ONLY FOUND ONE - 7 IT CAN BE FORMED IN 44 GENERATIONS FROM THIS FORMATION - .2 IT'S VERY EASY TO - =MISS IT!! THE GLIDER IS FIRED - :TOWARDS THE TOP RIGHT-HAND - %ANOTHER INTERESTING FORMATION IS THAT - #CONSISTING OF A SINGLE LINE ALL THE - 5WAY ACROSS THE SCREEN - ANOTHER THING OF INTEREST IS THE - $"EXPLOSION# ANIMAL, WHICH IS EASY TO - & LAST, BUT BY NO MEANS LEAST, THERE'S - 9THE "JELLYFISH# FORMATION - !A PERIOD 3 BLINKER, FORMED BY THE - CLOSE FORMATION OF 2 EXPLOSIONS. - %A SMALLISH FORMATION WHICH RESULTS IN - 3THIS ANIMAL IS THIS - > =ANYWAY, THERE'S A FEW ANIMALS - 4FIND SOME YOURSELF!! - CONVERTED TO THE '64 BY MANTIS 1988-89 ORIGINAL PROG BY JOHN CONWAY - 3 /** NEWSFLASH ** - .5 SINCE I WROTE THESE, - !2 NEW KEYS WERE ADDED TO THE LIST - 7G : TO CHANGE CELLTYPES - ;C=: TO RETURN TO BASIC, AND - 2H : FOR HELPSHEETS - :(PRESS "H# FOR HELPSHEETS) - D(M)OZCAR WILDE ONCE SAID "IF YOU'RE TIRED OF LONDON, YOU'RE TIRED OF LIFE#. WELL FAT BLOODY CHANCE MATE! LOOKING AT THIS L8EST TNT-PRODUXION, JOHN CONWAY'S LIFE SHOULD LAST FOR A WHILE AFTER THE CITY OF LONDON IS RELEGATED TO THE PAINT DRYING DIVISION. YUP, THBIS - A REMIX OF THAT FING THAT ALL MY FELLOW GERIATRIX OUT THERE MIGHT REMEMBER FROM THE ATARI/ZX81/VIC DAYS - DRAWING PATTERNS ON THE SCREEN, RUNNING THE PROG, AND WAITING AGES FOR EACH GENERATION. AK-SHULLY, I GOT RID OF MY PUBLIC DOMAIN COPY OF LIFE - GES AGO, AND WHEN I DECIDED TO SPEW THIS DEMO, I COULDN'T FIND A LISTING ANYWHERE. EVENTUALLY, I FOUND A DESCRIPTION OF THE ALGORITHM IN A REALLY SHIT BOOK I FOUND IN THE DUBLIN CENTRAL LIBRARY AND WROTE UP A LITTLE ROUTINE - Q THAT WAS WHERE I HEARD ABOUT GLIDERS, GLIDER GUNS, AND GLIDER DESTROYERS FOR THE FIRST TIME! WOW! TALK ABOUT NEW TRIX FOR OLD DOGS! BUT ENUFF ABOUT THAT. BY THE WAY, THE COMMODORE KEY CAN BE USED TO LEAVE AND RE-ENTER THE PROGRAM, IF YOU PREFER CURSOR CONTROLS TO JOYSTIX. - A TERRIBLE THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO MY SCROLLEDITOR, BY THE WAY - I USUALLY WRITE MY S-TEXTS AGES AFTER THE DEMOS, WHICH CREATES GARGANTUAN PROBLEMS, LEMME TELL YA! BUT ANYWAY, I DECIDED TO FINISH UP THIS PROG SO T.N.T. COULD RELEASE IT, AND I WENT TO LOAD IT UP - # AND THE F**KING DISK WOULDN'T WORK - IT TURNED OUT THAT THE HEADER FOR BLOCK 18,1 WAS PHUQUED, SO I HAD TO WRITE A PROG THAT READS DATA IN BLOCK BY BLOCK AND STICKS IT INTO MEMORY, AND USE IT TO LOAD THIS PROGRAM (HMM - 9 I'LL DO A BRAYBROOK AND THINK UP A NAME FOR THIS PROCESS - GOT IT! SUPRALOAD, BECAUSE INSTEAD OF JUST ACCEPTING THE DATA FROM THE DISK CONTROLLER, L'ORDINATEUR UPSTAGES IT AND DOES ALL THE TRACK CHANGES ITSELF)!! PHEW! WOT A COCKUP, BUT IT'S NOT AS BAD AS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE T.N.T. INTRO THREW A WOBBLY - THAT TIME, I HAD TO FIND BLOCKS THAT I RECOGNISED AND WORK BACKWARDS THROUGH THE PROG UNTIL I WAS 1 IN FRONT OF THE TRASHED SECTOR - A REAL PABIN - THE ARSE BECAUSE, SINCE THERE AREN'T ANY INDEX BYTES GOING BACKWARDS AND YOU HAVE TO GUESSTIMATE - A RIGHT BASTARD!! ANYWAY, GET FIDDLING ABOUT WITH THOSE CELLS AND BUILD SOME GROOVY ANIMALS - IF YOU GET ANY REALLY INTERESTING ONES, ESPESH SELF-REPLICATING OR GLIDER-EATING ONES, I'D LOVE TO HEAR - .; THE ADRESS?? HERE IT COMES - IF YOU MISSED DAT, CHECK OUT $6680. WRITE TO ME IF YOU'RE A CODER, OR WRITE TO EXOCET (ADDRESS AT $6680 ALSO) IF YOU'1 - .5 SEE YA, AND REMEMBER - .4 MUTATE AND SURVIVE! - WHAT DO YOU WANT NOW? ADDRESSES? YOUNG PEOPLE TODAY, ALL THEY EVER WANT IS ADDRESSES,ADDRESSES ADDRESSES! YOU KNOW YOUNG MAN, - ;YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY YOU CAN - WRITE! IN MY DAY, ALL WE HAD WAS MASTURBATION TO KEEP US HAPPY. WHAT'S THAT YOU SAY? "SHUT UP - ;YOU OLD FART"? OH ALL RIGHT - GRUMBLE 'GRUMBLE - !0 86 MANURE PARK, - 5AND ASK FOR THE PERP. - /AND ASK FOR THE - 1UTTERLY FANTASTIC - /PROGRAMMER THAT - 3YOU'D LIKE TO OFFER -