From zerkle Wed Apr 12 04:04:10 1995 Received: by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA15251; Wed, 12 Apr 95 04:04:07 PDT Received: from oxmail2.ox.ac.uk by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.6) id AA15242; Wed, 12 Apr 95 04:03:51 PDT Received: from sable.ox.ac.uk by oxmail2.ox.ac.uk. with SMTP (PP) id <17686-0@oxmail2.ox.ac.uk.>; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:03:51 +0100 Received: (from dkinder@localhost) by sable.ox.ac.uk (1.3/8.6.11) id MAA12087; Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:03:29 +0100 Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 12:03:29 +0100 (BST) From: David Kinder To: announce@cs.ucdavis.edu Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: SUBMIT Errors-To: zerkle@cs.ucdavis.edu X-Server: Zserver v0.90beta Status: RO submit TITLE AXlife VERSION 1.2 AUTHORS David Kinder Jon Bennett DESCRIPTION AXlife is a program to play the well known cellular automata, life. AXlife is based upon the definitive life program, Xlife, which runs on Unix X-Windows. Features: o Unlike other life programs, AXlife does not limit the size of the cellular automata to the size of the screen. AXlife keeps a record of all active cells, allowing a maximum life pattern of 2^32 by 2^32 (2^32 is about 4,300,000,000). o Due to the calculation method used, the speed at which AXlife runs depends on the number of active cells, not the area of the whole life grid. This makes AXlife *much* faster than other life programs, especially for large patterns. o AXlife comes with loads (>200) of pattern files, showing all the interesting patterns that have been discovered. SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS Requires AmigaOS 2.04 or greater, and at least one megabyte of contiguous free ram (i.e. as a single block of memory). AVAILABILITY AXlife is available on Aminet, e.g. ftp://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/pub/aminet/game/misc/axlife12.lha (206981) PRICE Free DISTRIBUTABILITY AXlife copyright 1995 David Kinder. Xlife copyright 1989 Jon Bennett.