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Menu Bar 24 LARGE Causes of Death 157 * Draw one stage. animal will starve to death before it can cross the ocean. health, the more resistant it is to toxins and the better it can survive Soil and Climate Change 180 Gene Poole 42 Health Costs 177 AGA VERSION: [PAGE: 114] Left Alt Key = In the Map Window: the gene pool-the evolution of the genes through natural selection and Click on this button if you want the Selected Species to be removed from the Ecology Score Graph 154 6. Create the moistures zones: starting along the left edge of the screen, Speciation 22 Food Webs 20 Graph Selectors 153 keep an eye on the Energy Requirement Bar near the lower-right corner of the Set Defaults 180 Each tiem an asexual plant or animal becomes pregnant, the event is reported. Play Animal Sounds 87 Individual Animal Data File 196 Simulation Menu. When the setting is old age, the animal will live out its maximum life span. species. While holding the mouse button down, slide the cursor to the species * Click on another icon. Reconverge Species 92 the default settings will not be changed. Nectar: Yes, No TITLE SECTION Sterile. Click and hold the down-arrow button to reveal the Gender submenu, the name of any control for a pop-up explanation of what it does. Population Graph 154 group of genes for a pop-up explanation of what the gene does. Census Windows 69, 70, 152-174 G METABOLISM COSTS manipulations. MATE 0000.000.001 0.06.01.002 0.06.01.001 repel gene; Species6 attract/repel gene; Species7 attract/repel gene. from the icons and then clicking on the Edit button, by double-clicking on a to wide swings in climatic conditions with erosion, set it high. and do the editing in the Genome Window. Genomes 21 PLANT COSTS Predator - One that preys, destroys or devours; often a consumer of living Icon Section 134 display. multiple choice. Discrete genes are shown and adjusted in the Genome Window as -=-=-=- CONTINUED FROM SIM LIFE DOC A -=-=-=- simulations), hardware (robotics), and wetware (organic Window for another try. CRY WOLF Run Control Window 189 Many of the objects can be recognized by the color keys or indicators in the Dashboard or any of the other windows. Use Colors Button 160 To make it easier to understand, there are two different ways to look at the Animal buttons. Right Amiga Key + N = New Game... Speciate Window 41, 185-186 Population 95, 159 Tab = Toggles between Plant and Animal in the Dashboard There are six food sources: Animals, Plants, Filter Food, Fruit, Nectar and HELP plants in SimLife don't move, this won't affect them. Show Clipboard 85 arrows over Health, Food and Water to show where on the bar the animal takes Click on All Animals to see the diversity display of the animals. The display * Turn off Update All Windows in the Goodies submenu of the Simulation [PAGE: 124] evolution takes in the two populations differ. or All Animals at once. Escape = Cancels operations, deselects selections, and sets Life Tool to No Tool There are four possible world sizes. When choosing world sizes, keep in mind Library, 1992. buttons are very powerful and can drastically alter the gene pool of an entire Set Time To 0 91 HEALTH requires sunlight, the amount of filter feeder food will vary with the YEAR 0001.000.000 0.00.01.000 See below Map Window Control Panel. Organisms can be identified by their color as shown The Mutation Rate slider controls the odds on how often mutation will occur Close 84 The Maximum Size slider controls the size limitations of the plant. The Mutagen tool allows you to place material in the ecosystem that will raise Icons 49-50, 58 Change Prototype Genome to Match Picture 138 SAVE ALL PLANTS MUTATION RATE Hide All Animals 88 is a gridlike graph with food sources on the left (the Y axis) and types of STATUS Temperature Zones 181 capabilities you are programming into it. NEVER MIND up and carry out a SimLife experiment. Since the orgot is mating with itself, the OrgotID is duplicated for Click here to open a dialog box or requester to load in a previously saved for plants to spread, or when the food chain has been broken. HELP the game has been installed to and double-click on the SimLife icon ecological community and ultimately determine its form and Plant Variables 182 Left Alt Key = In the Dashboard: INDEX drifting or fruit). RUN CONTROL WINDOW have few mountains and lakes you get a desert. the Local Species. Click and hold on the down-arrow button to reveal the You can get to the Edit Level from the Select Level by selecting a species comes into contact with one thing that it is attracted to and another thing To change the Ticks per day, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open species' genes set the percentage of this general life span they are capable Turn Type is a pull-down menu that lets you choose between three types of Speed Commands individuals of two species can be, while still allowing them to mate. will be shown on the left and right respectively. In this way you can move up checked, the genetic makeup ofthe newborn is reported. [PAGE: 179] Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. You bottom. The number of deaths in the current year from each cause is displayed Large 127 temperature and moisture will be high. When set to low, the ecosystem will Click this button to disable Run Control. arrow button to open the menu, then slide the cursor to your choice and the current world in the current experiment or scenario; it does not remove your animal: The species selected here does not affect the Selected Species in the if transplanted to another planet with different gravity, different ocean [PAGE: 130] Life Tool 110-113 BUTTONS DELETE plants or animals on or off. Right Amiga Key + 1 = Variables multi-level displays and any or all of the other single-level displays. DISPLAY AREA Each rectangle displays all the values of all the organisms for one gene. When The Toxin tool lets you palce a deadly poison into the ecosystem. This poison Data File Types 196-197 individual organisms can have more than one food source or method of movement, icons representing all the naimals are displayed below. Tutorials 10-78 Click on this button when you have chosen the species and number above. The When you enter the Genome Window through the Biology Lab you will be looking each button in the Edit Window Control Panel does. A500, A500+, A600, A1200, A1500, A2000, A3000, A4000 using Highlight lets you mark a plant or animal. When Highlight is active, the The Title Bar contains the name of the individual, which consists of the ADD SCATTERED * Select the Paste Icon item in the Edit Menu. found starting on the next page, as part of the complete description of Gene Pool 21, 95 Deciduous - Falling off or shed seasonally or at a certain stage of Typed by Rygar! Click here to remove all plants from the world. This only removes them from diversity you have, and the better your ecosystem's chances of survival. current values for health for any animal can be seen in the Variables Window. Click here to move to the Edit level of the Biology Lab so you can inspect or values. (Technically, in SimLife, the continuous genes are stored and computed Menu. The second level is for editing, where you modify the organism and/or its [PAGE: 200] current world. This score is actually a rating of how well you are doing as on/off buttons. DISPLAY AREA it moves and how many children it has per litter. And as mammals, we like to BORN 0000.000.000 1.00.01.030 30 release the mouse button. AMIGA VERSION Ecosystem 17 [PAGE: 177] last 50 days or the last 50 years. HISTORY WINDOW The Phenotype Window displays any organism's "flash card" image, as seen in HIGH RESOLUTION MODE plants and animals in the sea, soil and air) and seeds. The Size slider controls the maximum size of the animal. KILL 0000.000.000 1.00.01.000 30 To change the metabolism cost, click and hold on the down-arrow button to Temperature Zones, when selected, causes only the temperature zones to be Edit Window Control Panel 36, 104, 106-116 There are five values for each movement type: Tiny, Low, Medium, High and gene pool? An April 1992 National Geographic article told of the modern-day Population Interaction Window as a descendant of a Census Window. When the Use Colors? button is set to "No," the continuous genes will be If you want a very stable climate with little or no erosion for your of faith for us. We are trusting you not to give away copies of this a box, they will all be unchecked. Animal Icons DATA LOGGING * To get the full effect, and to have different evolutionare pressures, NEVER MIND If you try to turn a plant into an animal or an animal into a plant you'll Drawing Order 105 A color/shade key to help you interpret humidity will appear near the middle Gestation Time gene; Gestation Size gene; Metabolism/Gender/Share Food gene; To change this species, click and hold on the down-arrow to reveal a submenu arrow button next to either species' icon, then select the new species of your Gestation, Growth and Healing. Each of these processes can be assigned a Animal Food Sources 143 WORLD AVERAGE TEMPERATURE intersection (Z axis) is shown by the size and shade of the box. A key to If there are variations for your particular computer, they will be covered actually has very practical experimental uses. For example, changing the mutations, extinctions, species danger (hunger, thirst, no males left, no a more complete tour of SimLife and demonstrate how to design, set This section of the Genome Window deals with the animal's food/energy stores. Share Food 143 click in the Close Box. * Select the Paste Icon item in the Edit Menu The deeper the soil, the better the conditions and the more nutrients there manipulate the organism's genetic code. STRUCTURE Windows. Somewhere in the Map Window Display Area is the Edit Rectangle. This rectangle a living. Ecologically speaking, making a living is finding a way to survive - entire species. This slider controls the amount of genes the offspring receives from the turns that the animal can make: low, medium-low, medium-high and high. A high is shown by the size and shade of the box. A key to interpreting the boxes viewed simultaneously. of this species. plant or animal. Llama 34, 39, 188 make changes and set new defaults). DELETE ALL PLANTS the speed of your computer (larger worlds run slower), the amount of RAM you button. SimLife can be a memory hog. If you have limited memory, you may want to do WORLD AVERAGE MOISTURE think that if the picture of the head looks like a mammal it has a larger to the right, the animal will need so much food to live it could starve in FLASH CARDS of the soil. It is a multi-level display, and cannot be displayed at the RENAME The Graphs Window can be opened from the Windows Menu (it's in the Census CONSERVING MEMORY submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then organisms in familiar terms, to relate them to combinations of plants and When you highlight an organism, it becomes the Selected Species. When Auto MAP WINDOW This line marks the value of this gene for the Prototype of the species. You a Census Window. Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. You circumscribes the area of the map that is currently visible in the Edit Windows 98-197 You might want to use this button if you have located one individual in a All of the following fields are recorded for DATA (daily census statistics) Make It So activates the current settings and closes the window. Health (%) Graph 154 There are actually two Genome Windows: one for animals and one for plants. new Seleted Species, click its icon. Changing the Selected Species here At any time in this window you can click and hold on the name of any gene or FOOD VALUE Temperature Tool 107 it is repelled by at the same time, it will react to the one whose icon is Triangle Buttons 15, 80 release the mouse button. The Action slider sets the health level that causes the animal to start don't actually affect the organism until you click on the Change your plant can sprout: Spring, SUmmer, Fall and Winter. Click and hold on the down-arrow button to reveal a submenu of all possible choices, then slide Ooh-la-la - this is the sound of animals mating. The Populate Window lets you add or delete plants and animals to or from the Window. Clicking or clicking and holding on any of the arrows will scroll the * Use the smaller-sized worlds: the smaller the world, the less memory the Click on this button if you want the Selected Species to be placed on dry land Each time a species is manually populated, the event is reported. Germination - Sprouting or developing; coming into being or beginning to grow. Births Graph 154 Y giving up and trying something else. The Phenotype Window can be opened in two ways: from the Windows Menu if and over water, temperature becomes more moderate. As you go up in altitude, CHANGING SPECIES Click here to go to the Edit Level of the Biology Lab to create a new plant. The Max slider adjusts the maximum water the animal can store in its body. A Score 187 Types of Genes 159 any or all of the other single-level displays. down-arrow button to open the menu, then slide the cursor to your choice and Evolution - Change in the genetic makeup of a population with time; a theory itself around the cursor. You can also click and drag the Edit Rectangle. type; an original model on which something is patterned. Hold down while clicking on a predator to open the rebuilt the next time you build a world. This is especially useful when you group of species), and pick a number of organisms to be added or deleted. Pianka, Eric R. - Evolutionary Ecology - Fourth Edition. Harper & Row, 1988. The Galapagos Islands contain the best known examples of divergent evolution form, function, and behavior of an organism; an expression of SimEarth. Here are just a few ideas to work with. have very little difference between seasons. INBREEDING number as part of its name. eukaryotic cells), along which the genes are located. Click this button to close the Locate An Individual Window without locating that the various types of animals and plants have their origin in FILTER FEEDER FOOD One group of genes can be selected at a time. Click and hold on the down-arrow Right Amiga Key + P = Pause with the flash cards or in the Genome Window). function. Of course, one organism is not a very good gene pool. works. subject. If the subject is an animal species, the graph will show its have changed a world's altitude in the Edit Window and want to update the Ultra-Food sources last forever and provide an unlimited amount of food to all NEVER MIND There are four graph selectors, each of which can be used to choose any This adjustment sets the amount of mountains that will be generated in the release the mouse button. Behaviour gene; Vision gene; Food Action gene; Water Action gene; Health can click on these arrows to cycle forward and backward through all the Census enemies to keep their population down. A classic case is the pig in Hawaii. It Changes in Food Values do not directly affect plants, but indirectly they will make the maindland large, and the island small. If you are using the AGA version of SimLife you have the to the roots, killing them. LOAD A SPECIES but this only changes the rate time passes, and doesn't actually make the species, so a warning message will appear to give you a chance to back out. are there. * Click on any of the buttons below the icons to toggle between plant population is displayed to the right of the All Animals button, and Following is an explanation of any and all features and functions of If a lot of different organisms eat the same kind of food, live in the same or gene names to see on-screen help. This adjustment sets the amount of the ecosystem that is covered by water. It of organisms, it instantly updates the population physically, mentally or This is where you can adjust the amount of energy it takes for an animal to of living. FOOD SOURCES simulation memory that is viewable in the Graph Census Window is dumped to Huge. Edit Species Genome NEW PLANT highest mountain peaks. If you set the Rivers and Lakes to many and mountains Click on All Plants to see the diversity display of the plants. The display Add a Group 124 [PAGE: 147] To the left of the predator icons is a bar graph showing the relative activity types of genes: discrete and continuous. choice. For males, Gestation is blanked out. For females, Gestation gives the current applicable. The remaining fields are different for each message type as noted. down-arrow to reveal a submenu of all available choices, then slide the cursor The flash cards for animals are arranged horizontally. Process in Miscellaneous Simstuff at the end of this section for more info.) There are two available time scales in which the graphs can be displayed, * Many seeds don't sprout if they don't have the right genes for sprouting game, and is approximately 1KB per day. This file is appendable: you can toxins. come up with some interesting worlds. Below the arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on this button to see a SimLife on the Amiga that weren't covered in the manual. The Weapons slider controls the power of the animal's weapon (claws, teeth, Recruit 112 works. MOVEMENT COSTS Next, choose whether to add the species (either as a group or scattered all POPULATE WINDOW save. plant and animal biomass. Dawkins, Richard - The Selfish Gene. New Edition. Oxford University Press, Note: You can flip through the flash cards all you want without environment. both land and water when it is added to the world. dialogue box that lets you name the data file and tell the computer When you activeate the Data Logging... item in the Technical of the multi-level displays and any or all of the other single-level displays. Click on this button to generater a small world, which will be 64 x 128 tiles. Show Variables 40, 113 flying creatures from crossing the ocean, spreading their genes and Menu. Quit 84 Left Alt Key = In the Graphs Window: button in the Biology Lab does. [PAGE: 180] Most of the settings involve slider controls. To adjust them, click and drag Menus 15, 24, 84-97 to your choice and release the mouse button. subject has stored. ALL PLANTS status for Health, Food, Water and Radiation. In addition, it has marker game. Copy protection is a pain - for all of us - and we'd like to stop Left Alt Key = In the Edit Window: The Run Control Window lets you tell the simulation to pause and wait for you Tree, Shrub, Grass and Floating. Click and hold on the down-arrow button to the bar charts add up to more than 100% Clicking this button will change the genotypes of all the organisms in the environment and soil quality, and check the location of various objects and [PAGE: 187] over the world) or delete the species. Then decide whether the organisms BIOLOGY LAB AT SELECT LEVEL button to see the menu, then slide the cursor to your choice. World Average Temperature 125 [PAGE: 185] of your plant. All adjustments get higher as the slider moves from left to should be put on the land or in the water or both. And last, instruct the [PAGE: 168] Tricky Graphs 162 Selecting a graph to display is a two-step process: first select a species, When the Barrier tool is active, the cursor becomes a pile of rocks. Click Show Genes 40, 113 Build-A-Bug 54 B An advanced, but very useful feature in SimLife is Data Logging. * Draw one stage. (not used for genetics). WARNING: TRICKY GRAPHS Right Amiga Key + W = Close Game... Subject's species to exactly match the Subject. will decreas an organism's health when it is directly adjacent to it. Window. These flash card pictures are not actually representative of how the organism energy transactions in the food web. New Game Window 23, 103 and Asexual. Click and hold on the down-arrow button to open the menu, then Water Store gene; Health Store gene; Height gene; Mutation gene; Life span Diversity Window 171-173 survival and reproduction. Analysis 77 Workbench version 1.3 or higher with a minimum 1 MB of RAM Click on All Plants to see the population display of the plants. The total animals that approach them. the Biology Lab. When the setting is immortal, the animal will not die of natural causes. NEW WORLD NAME Menu or by clicking on the Map icon on the Dashboard. Build World Button movement and kind(s) of food they can eat. Animal Gene Groups 161 modify the Selected Species. Everything, when selected, causes every aspect of a world to be rebuilt Click this button to open the Genome Window for the Selected Species. multi-level displays and any or all of the other single-level displays. world. categories. Deaths listed as Accidents include human-caused death by: Smiting, When the Edit Rectangle is moved, the Edit Window will change to display the 400, 800 and 1600. When you edit at the Edit Level, you can never edit one individual member of a Auto Tracking 39, 87 * Setting the food value of plants to low in the Laws of Physics Window Prey - An animal taken by a predator as food. information is shown below. To change the Local Species, click and hold on the are three sounds that occur to notify you of important events that you LIFE SPAN LIVE 0000.000.000 1.00.01.030 30 be activated. The new settings will immediately take control of the world, but insects out there fell slighted you can program your own darn game.) Graphs Window 70, 152-155 section of the window. Food Chains 20 GENOME WINDOWS To view all the animal genes or change the order of display for plants, click [PAGE: 140] start looking for water. a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then although 2 MB is recommended. A hard drive is also recommended. number somewhere on a continuum from 0 to 256. They are shown and adjusted in Edit Window Display Area 105 FOOD WEB WINDOW The right side of the window has a graph to visually depict the seasonal represent percentages. This will be explained below. MAKE ME INTO A NEW SPECIES might not otherwise notice. At any time you can click and hold on the Help button or on any of the labels The Diversity Window can be opened from the Windows Menu (it's in the Census also create a new plant or animal species, or load in previously saved Since different stages of the plant's life may look very similar, you can: arrow's locations match. Langton, Christopher G., ed. - Artificial Life II: A Proceedings Volume in the 50 years or 50 days. Click on the Days or Years buttons to change time scales. take a break (to work - or better yet, play SimCity), SimAnt(R) 4 Simulation Menu 85 NOTE 0000.000.000 92/06/01 17:12:51 "Log started" In the Biology Lab, you can only edit the Prototype (the genetic starting This setting adjusts the average life span for organisms in the world. The Biology Lab is a multi-level window for inspecting and modifying existing HIST 0000.000.000 1.19.01.000 2 "Wheatgrass' has only seeds left" Submenu of the Simulation Menu, the program will write a lot of data SPECIES NAME the Option key while unchecking (clearing) the cursor to your choice and release the mouse button. If you hold down the after a certain amount of time. It can be opened from the Technical submenu of food, you directly control how much food animals need and indirectly affect species that has developed an advantageous genetic trait that you want to A1200, A4000 using Workbench 3.0 with 2 MB of RAM. A Structure is a pull-down menu with four choices for basic plant structure: Data Checkboxes (A.K.A. Flags) the game has been in progress and the difficulty level factored in. It's easy If you click on either a predator or prey, it will become the Subject Species. numerically and with a bar. You can change the Height and Age by dragging to disk in a standard text file. This information can then be loaded cursor becomes a highlighted box. Click on any organism to highlight it. most spreadsheets and databases for charting, graphing and statistical the black arrows under their bars, but Weight changes autmatically in relation organisms and their environments. FOOD TOOL [PAGE: 188] current water values for any animal can be seen in the Variables Window. This is where you enter the name for the new world. when it is added to the world. There are four possible settings for Gender: Female, Male, Asexual, and Edit Rectangle 30 species. You can only edit the prototype of the species. Design an experiment (or 10) that simulate(s) other worlds, set loose some Census Submenu 95 Y It is in a standard ASCII tab-delimited file format and cen be loaded into There are two additional tutorials in the manual that will take you on Life Span is a slider control for adjusting the maximum life span of the Flash Cards 45, 48, 82, 132-134 above. Click and hold on the Help button to see on-screen help for this window. swapping disks when necessary. LEGN 0.00.01.000 "Elephant" Click on this button if you want the Selected Species to be added to the world value for life span, but not all of them will have the exact same value. attract/repel gene; Species1 attract/repel gene; Species2 attract/repel gene; When there is a spread of values for a gene, this is shown using multiple The agents of death are listed along the left side of the display from top to * If you haven't read the book or seen the move, I recommend both. all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then release the mouse Click and hold on the down-arrow button to see a submenu of all available These plants can all be loaded in at once by using the Load A Zoo button. adult. Since animals move, you'll need two child and two adult icons facing in associated eight favorite prey species on the right. These are the top eight Dashboard or any of the other windows. (grass, tree or shrub). WHO'S EATING ME? Plant Icons single-level display, and can be viewed along with one of the multi-level release the mouse button. nectar information on the bottom (X axis). There is a box at each grid After starting SimLife, you will see the New Game Window. Click on INTERPRETING THE GRAPH Click on this button to generate a medium-sized world, which will be 128 x 256 Right Amiga Key + 4 = Diversity into a spreadsheet or other statistical program, and you can make all Click on Make It So when you are happy with all your settings. All your SELECTED SPECIES a new species. Before saving, you can modify the icon and the genome (either [PAGE: 199] Fans of the Farley Mowat book Never Cry Wolf (or the Disney movie based on the Gender 46, 141, 148 takes the least, flying takes the most and walking and climbing are somewhere MUTAGENS simulation to run before pausing. and YEAR (yearly census summaries) for each active species. experiments, set this slider low. If you want your ecosystem to be subjected Keep in mind: Plant Zoo File 196 It will default to the Selected Species in the Dashboard. Allen, John - Biosphere 2: The Human Experiment. Penguin Books USA, 1991. Plant Gene Groups moisture variations vary. things down. The Population Interaction Window displays a special type of graph of the years. Animal Zoo File 197 SHOW PHENOTYPE that will eat it. The Variables Window treats plants and animals differently - not because of Use the up- and down-arrows or type in the number of days or years you want button to see a brief explanation of what this window does and how it works. in new generations of this plant. The Mortality Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging Water (%) Graph 154 If you make a mistake, you can undo your last drawing action by clicking on given area. TIME SCALE [PAGE: 113] Laws of Physics Window 65, 175-180 Edition. Harper Perennial, 1983, 1991. Click here to change the genetic code for the prototype species to match the and only if there is currently an organism highlighted in the Edit Window - single file. These animals can all be loaded in at once by using the Load A can take up to 100KB per year. Make sure you have the disk space. Population Interaction Window 168, 169 more with a multisync monitor. ICON SECTION to get a high score for a short time, but keeping a high score for a long time Trails toggles on and off the display of the trails that animals follow on then select the information. Show Phenotype 41, 113 rebuilt the next time you build a world. ANIMAL LIMITS a display for Forage Count and Gestation. Genome - The total genetic information in an organism's nucleus. [PAGE: 121] highlight the number and type in a new one. Plants or All Animals as the Selected Species, then this number of each Title Section 141 Metabolism Costs 177 Years 14 Right Amiga Key + 8 = Mortality [PAGE: 131] Gestation controls how much energy it takes to produce offspring. With a 4. Let rivers wind downhill until they hit the plains. In this window you can only select a single species at a time; you cannot submenu of all possible choices, then slide the cursor to your choice and capabilities of operating in high resolution mode if you have a The Vision slider controls the animal's visual acuity. Dashboard 24-29, 59-61, 94, 98-102 scenarios and experiments. Selected Species Section 100 If you click on any of the events, the icon that represents the organisms in earth animals that should have some meaning for most of us. For instance, Roamin' Noses 55 The Edit Level of the Biology Lab lets you easily modify or design organisms, not only has no natural enemies, but also eats many of the native plants down available values in the continuum for them to appear analog for all practical looks. SimLife organisms are electronic and look like a matrix of ones and is Accident, which covers everything that doesn't fit into any of the above Save As... 84 the life span or the mutation probability genes. Each of these genes is a to none in the adjustment below, you can create an ocean-only ecosystem. This is a simulated joystick to scroll the area that is displayed in the Edit release the mouse button. Layers Submenu 88 The Population Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging [PAGE: 118] tissue. either an animal is male, female, asexual or sterile. Pick one and only one: Census Windows. Keep in mind: Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of species will not remove it from the disk or prevent you from using it in 2. Use Cellular Automaton techniques to gradually and randomly bring the predator/prey relationships between different organisms in the ecosystem. CONTINUOUS GENES color or monochrome key will appear to help you interpret the data in this Paste Icon 85 displayed using a special color display. The key at the top will help you species are summarised. To change the food value cost, click and hold on the down-arrow button to Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Remaining Special Pop. Insert the disk labelled `SIMLIFE1' into your internal drive and reset SELECTED SPECIES The Old Age slider controls how long the plant can live (barring accidents, Niche - The functional role and position of an organism in the ecosystem. across plains, a long plain will turn into a desert without nearby more room for your landlubbers. These settings do not affect the Ultra-Food food sources. Accidents 157 Right Amiga Key + 6 = Gene Pool a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then indirectly affects animals. P Button 26, 99 Below the arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on this button to see Windows. the middle of dinner. 2, 4 and 8 children per litter. Option key (or the Control key if your keyboard has no Option key) while share with the whole family. Right Amiga Key + - = Slow USE COLORS BUTTON FROM HARD DISK Clicking anywhere on the map will cause the Edit Rectangle to center to center Gene Pool Diversity 48, 134 peaks of the mountains down to the plains. division, spore formation, fissions, or budding) that do not involve Right Amiga Key + = = Medium [PAGE: 149] Mutation Rate Slider 150 Diversity - Represented by a broad band of distinct elements or qualities; Press this button to display the main links in the food web for the current Besides feeding one's ego by supplying such awesome power, this window experiment, but the most useful is 50 years. All the graphing, history and leaves. turning behaviors: zig-zag, looping and random. group, or condition. We constructed these images of SimLife organisms out of parts of familiar Genes 20 [PAGE: 151] Evergreen - Having foilage that remains green and functional through more than the deaths. It can be opened from the Windows Menu (it's in the Census messing up your organism. The changes you make to the flash cards [PAGE: 132] Radiation (%) - displays the cumulative radiation dose the subject has possible species are displayed on the right side of the window. To select a Genetic Drift - Change in the gene pool purely as a result of chance, and not poisons, etc.). deciduous or evergreen, evaporation rate (dry, normal or humid) and structure THE LOCAL SPECIES Map 94 TIME SCALE Simulation Stuff 178-197 Gene Selection 162 below the name of each agent. new area in the rectangle. New World Name 126 will be good, but will start to erode immediately. periodic governmental population count. information to play SimLife. Click here if you want to exit the World Design Window without building a new TOXINS 9. Add the filter food. Filter food follows the moisture: moist areas and maturity and maximum life span. originals at a later time. Whatever you do, don't save over the The submenu only shows one of the icons-leaves, no flowers-but all four icons laboratory. sex organs. the new world when it is generated. These can be set from none to many. animal. This maximum life span is a percentage of the maximum life span in the displays and any or all of the other single-level displays. [PAGE: 116] Save All Plants or Save All Animals button. To be really useful, the gene pool must show the combined genes for a whole using it forever, but if SimLife falls victim to piracy, then we will it takes to swim could simulate a world with a very viscous ocean. SAVE ALL ANIMALS Soil Depth shows the depth, and therefore (in SimLife at least), the quality the new world when it is generated. These can be set from none to many. the Title Bar. It will go away if you click in the Close Box. Filter Food 19, 119 Kill Off 124 A Food Web that is successful in earthlike surroundings might not do so well ALL ANIMALS This window always displays information on a species population-all the against eachother over time. Display Messages 87 A color/shade key to help you interpret the temperature will appear near Clicking on this button returns you to the Food Web Window. POPULATE BUTTON approximately 1KB per plant. * Click on the color in the pallette you want to draw with. Plants or All Animals. This adjustment sets the amount of Ultra-Food Food Sources that will appear pregnancy status. If she is not pregnant, Gestation will be all the way to MOISTURE between purine and pyrimidine bases, which project inward from two To scroll through the list of historical events, click on the Older or Newer Bars will appear above the icons representing the relative populations of each For the past five years, California has been suffering from a drought. Yet Click here to update the genetic code of the entire population of the Selected Simulation time; Species ID: Total species population, including seeds for Water Slider 150 Select Level 129 ~~~~~~~~~~ These windows display the entire genetic code for any species or individual To change the Plant Limit, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open a book) know of the importance of the balance between the populations of wolves Click on the Days or Years buttons to choose between displaying data for the [PAGE: 167] Rating 187 If you place a mutagen on top of a creature, the creature will be drawn on top nectar, fruit, and seeds. The energy cost for food and water can be set to a help you interpret the multi-level data. where to save it. Soil Depth 119 System Simulation 4 THE MAP WINDOW CONTROL PANEL Click here to update the picture to match any changes you have made to the instantly: the SimCesarean. equivalent to vision and is controlled by the vision gene. the Title Bar. It will go away if you click in the Close Box. changes it in all windows. display, and cannot be displayed at the same time as any other multi-level another world. and structures of plants (trees, shrubs, water plants, etc.) are better World Building Options Window 181 Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" that marks the Mortality Window as Precipitation - A deposit on the earth of hail, mist, rain, sleet, or snow; The World Building Options Window lets you set options that the simulation new strains of the old plants that require less water, or come up with new predation or disaster) before it loses the ability to reproduce. Graphs 95 Below the up and down arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on this button [PAGE: 127] Mutagens toggles on and off the display of mutation-causing agents on the * Click or click and drag in the drawing area. R.Y.G.A.R.-(c) 1993 !!! decompressions before use. If you intend to play SimLife from Animal Gene Groups SHOW VARIABLES The Evaluation Window can be reached through the Evaluation item in the the Title Bar and it will go away if you click in the Close Box. locations-different values-and show what percentage of the population has that On-screen Tutorial 10 Click on this button to generate a large world, which will be 256 x 512 tiles. will open set to the Subject's genotype. You can rename it and save it as Bradbury, Ian - The Biosphere. Belhaven Press, 1991. EVALUATION WINDOW individual, if living, will be located, highlighted and visible in the Edit Scenarios 23, 103 black bars at different locations. The higher the bar, the more of the abuses). Try them out. See if you can figure out what they are today's biological science. In the world we live in, you can make changes to BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE SIMS Each time an animal is born, the birth is reported. If the GENE checkbox is DISCRETE GENES represented by colored or shaded dots or areas. Right Amiga Key + D = Data Logging Click here to open a dialog box or requester that allows you to rename the plants or animals to that colour/symbol. plants; for plant species, the number of seeds, if any; Species population, Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. Edit Level and modified a species, return here to save your changes. during a game, plus enough genealogy info the eventually recreate the family [PAGE: 174] DIVERSITY WINDOW button to open a submenu of all available choice, slide the cursor to your Day Length 178 REGIONAL WEATHER VARIATION exploited by the current population of plants and animals. The Map Window Control Panel is filled with buttons that control what is 1976, 1989. and down the food chain and get a complete overview. amount of energy it takes to move, such as a setting of very little energy to About SimLife... 84 This adjustment sets the average, or center point around which the seasonal The main area of this window is a scenic view of a potential ecosystem. There graph - or no graph - to display. Each selector is assigned a color or shade. farthes to the right. one type of food, but more sources take more energy due to the more versatile If All Plants or All Animals is selected there will be no Prototype lines. Forage Count 183 SimLife uses a number of different types of data files to save plants, Food (%) - displays the changes in the percentage of maximum food the subject [PAGE: 122] world. in the middle. Of course, you can go to the Laws of Physics Window (see below) uses when creating a new world. It also lets you rebuild one aspect, or data NUMBER Plants 18 of the predators. increases the animal's weight and slows it down. Species to match the genetic code of the currently selected species' Tries to Avoid: There are no "set" choice displays for Tries to Avoid... Icons Ecology 17 MOVEMENT This file holds the species prototypes for a group of animals. It is created be displayed. tiles. GENERAL INFORMATION This is a display of the species the Subject will be changed into if you click 1. Draw fractal lines to make the upper ridges and peaks of mountain they will all be checked. If you hold down Seeds 149 At the end of each simulation year, the census statistics for each active Unlike the graphs in the Graphs Window, which map a single population against submenu) or through the Census button on the Dashboard. It can be moved around Extinct - No longer active or existing. This adjustment sets the amount of toxins that will appear scattered around * Sometimes solutions to problems cause their own, worse problems. Evaluation 94 PIG OUT to Height and other variables. might regret later. 500KB. The Game file does not save any of the census information. Information to set all four Selectors at once. The main area of the window displays the year and day of each event along with The Turning slider adjusts the number and severity of directional changes the motion, etc. To add abilities to your creature, you can enter the Genome turn them all on or off. Option key) while selecting a Local Species, that species will be the subject number of different ways, both useful and silly. We've included a few To choose a set of animal icons, click and hold on the Icons button to open a Click here to return to the Select Level so you can save the current species Each of these partitioned rectangles represents one continuous gene. The left No Auto-Disasters 97 Each of the three adjustable climatic aspects deal with variation throughout Barriers are useful for dividing populations into isolated groups. You can STANDARD VERSION: In the Water 124 Heat Wave 96 World Buliding Process 195 how the animal fits into the environment. Looking at these pictures, it is At any time in this window you can click and hold on the Help button or on flash card picture. You can flip through the flash cards all you want, and it Persist 143 analysis. Keep in mind: in an earthlike setting. sometimes a nutritional source for animals. Tracking is active in the Goodies submenu of the Simulation Menu, the screen nine for plants. Technical Commands individual organism. The information in this window is not contained in the The Genome Window can be opened from the Biology Lab by clicking on the Edit throughout the year. This affects the amount of sunlight plants get. next time you build a world. This is the default setting. side corresponds with the highest value. The colored bars appear at different This is the species that is ready for editing, copying, etc. Icons of all A color/shade key to help you interpret soil depth will appear near the For the most part, the causes of death are self-explanatory: Eaten, Old Age, Depending on world size and population, the Game file can range from 50KB to Gestation Size 145 Selected Species in the Dashboard. The left card, the front of the animal, has 18 possible pictures, which This adjustment sets the average, or center point around which the seasonsal have a predator/prey "cycle," where the two populations directly affect each hard drive is recommended. The Gene Pool Window is a graphic display of evolution in action. It shows the computer to "Make It So." Save Button 51, 129 % of Biomass - displays the amount of the biomass that is represented by the If the Local Species is a plant, no prey will be displayed because plants Dawkins, Richard - The Blind Watchmaker. W.W. Norton & Company, 1986, 1987. LIFE Census Windows Button 29 A high max setting allows stocking up of water when it is plentiful, but organism and allow you to change, modify, manipulate or redesign the organisms the Census button on the Dashboard. Brain Box 183 E members of that species that are currently alive in the world. The only way Scrolling 36 the quantity of water deposited. Change Physics... 65, 90 R Display Area over the world in the direction the arrow points. Hide All Layers 88 open the menu, then slide the cursor to your choice and release the mouse This button may not appear on computers with monochrome monitors. At the lower-left corner of the Biology Lab are seven buttons. Many of these and the numbers they represent is provided on the right side of the window. Speciate 41, 113 but sit still and save energy. Edit Window Tool Indicator 101 of the population with that value. COPY game to install onto. See Installation instructions below. Control 60-61 to the game at a later time and continue logging to the same Data Log file. Gene Pool Window 71, 158-164 The Edit Level of the Biology Lab is slightly different for animals and The Max slider adjusts the maximum health level the animal can reach. Edit Species Genome 138 LAWS OF PHYSICS In addition, if the Local Species is a single species (not All Plants or All the next time you build a world. This is especially useful when you have Turn Angle is a pull-down menu that lets you choose between four severities of Move 39, 111 Note: This graph only shows the relationship between plant and animal Title Bar. It will go away if you click in the Close Box. The flash cards give you a simple way to modify or design an organism. and hold on the down-arrow to the right of the gene name to open a submenu of Click on any displayed pictures of plants or animals for more information on there is a spread of values for a gene, this is shown using multiple colored choose All Plants or All Animals. Changing this species does not affect the Species3 attract/repel gene; Species4 attract/repel gene; Species5 attract/ [PAGE: 162] submenu of all available plants and animals, then slide the cursor to the one Main Links 166 1973. Carrot 40, 112 Y place-like an anemone. organisms, you can limit the number of plants to: Unlimited, 1/2 maximum, 1/4 the map, so their foraging movements can be observed. This is a single-level Auto-Disasters 97 graph you want to see, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open the On some computers with monochrome-only screens, the Use Colors? button and/or * Turn off Record All Statistics in the Technical submenu of the Simulation pictures, click on the up or down arrows above or to the left of the pictures. Save All Animals 130 only if there is currently an organism highlighted in the Edit Window, or By adjusting the amount of food value - energy - supplied by each type of ranges. DATA LOGGING FILE FORMAT Prototype. In a sense, you can think of the discrete genes as digital-yes or no, on or percentage of the total animal biomass. If the subject is a plant species, the The basic process of populating the world is to first select a species (or Time in SimLife 14 addendum. niches that are currently filled. The more life-forms you have, the more Installation 10 Prototype Genome to Match Picture button, as explained below. log data during a game or experiment, stop for a while, and come back At the end of each simulation day, the census statistics for each active a result of selection, mutation, or migration. This file holds the species prototype for a plant, and is approximately 1KB have (larger worlds take more memory), and the particular experiment you are This section adjusts how much energy is required for metabolic processes: Plant Genome 148-150 is built. When the steps are shown, it takes a little longer to build the Beyond non-competition, a lot of different types of plants and animals living will be pictures of plants and/or animals that represent different ecological SLIDERS simulation needs. the Simulation Menu. Use this window when you want to check data at certain The information is the data to be graphed about the above subject. Species Genome button or from the Edit Window by using the Life Tool in Show [PAGE: 150] Height, Weight and Age. The Age bar has arrows to make the action level (arrow The image in this window does not represent the actual appearance of the Delete Button 129 changes taking place. Hint: it is a good idea not to have your animal be attracted to another animal Medium 127 Structure: Floating, Grass, Shrub, Tree Genome Window 40, 46-47, 56-57, 140-150 ecosystem. It will show up to eight predator species on the left and their BIOLOGY LAB BUTTONS are for plants. New worlds will have shallow soil, but as plants grow and die, ADD A GROUP value: Tiny, Low, Medium, High or Huge. Lake Size 181 release the mouse button. Hold down while clicking an On/Off button to turn all situations; the ability to apply knowledge to manipulate one's the simulation needs. DATA FILE TYPES Clear Icon 85 organisms. It is also the launching site for mass-populating the ecosystem Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. You Genealogy - An account of the descent of a person, family, or group from an adapted to different environments. Different ways of spreading seeds (fruit, the left. When the arrow reaches the right side of the slider, birth occurs. the Tutorial button, then on Play Scenario to start the On-screen Disease, No Water and No Food are easy to figure out. The only ambiguous one turn attracts and feeds more animals and increases soil depth. This Addendum / Quick Start Guide contains all the Amiga - specific for this species; Number of females in the species population; Average age of Prototype and push this button, the whole population of this species will What happens when there is not enough genetic diversity within a species' below the arrow. TRAILS Joystick 35-36, 105, 116 temperature and moisture. plant's current status for Health, Food supply, Water and Radiation exposure. from the Biology Lab using the Save All Animals button. ITs size is of the Map Window Control Panel. TYPES OF GENES Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. You A color/shade key to help you interpret the available filter feeder food will displays - any or all of which can be displayed at a time. When applicable, species prototype in the Genome Window. The Laws of Physics Window gives you the power to change the physical laws [PAGE: 178] Climate Lab Button 64 MAKE IT SO the length of days and years could save you hours or days of computer time. looking at a phenotype of any animal, you can easily see what it eats, how the Undo button, or selecting Undo in the Edit Menu. * Sexual reproduction requires the large energy expense of finding and plant currently being edited. If it is an individual organism, it will have a When the Toxin tool is active, the cursor becomes a skull and crossbones This adjustment controls the variations in temperature and moisture in your GROUPS AND INDIVIDUAL GENES Change Picture to Match Prototype Genome 138 HELP Water Tool 114 Game Data File 196 At the bottom of the window are three buttons. points are older, and which are newer. efficiency. If you are interested in the behavior of one generation, make the Prototype - An individual that exhibits the essential features of a later RATING This adjustment sets the amount of mutagens that will appear scattered around Load a Species 131 organism: Its purpose is to give you some insight into the organism's size, MAKE ME PROTOTYPE OF SPECIES The SimLife manual provides many game-specific definitions for terms that are This section of the Gene Pool Window displays all the information on the checkbox is checked, the genetic makeup of the new plant is reported. Click here to go to the Edit Level of the Biology Lab to create a new animal. ecosystem. LOAD A ZOO TITLE SECTION are 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 days. Graph Time Scale 153 [PAGE: 144] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ As you design or modify an animal in this window, the Maximum Size Bar will Meyer, Jean-Arcady, ed. - From Animals to Animats: Proceedings from the First submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then algorithm. Show All Animals 88 window using colors to represent percentages or using small bar graphs to can look at the prototype value as the "starting position" for each gene. When that individual is reported. Since animals have more genetic data than plants, Above is shown the Gene Pool Window life span gene display for one animal, and temperature variations vary. Type Year.Day.Tic OrgotID OrgotID There are two versions of SimLife for the Amiga: AGA which fully you want, and release. new worlds, especially near water sources. riding an individual species' mutation rate as set in its genetic code. This FOOD Also, only animals with climbing capability can move up or down steep slopes. ALTITUDE Icons to the right take precedence in behavior conflicts, i.e., if an animal Show Steps toggles on and off the display of each data layer as the world You can set it to pause after any amount of days or years, depending on your Each plant needs four icons that represent the four stages of plant life: [PAGE: 137] [PAGE: 163] Radiation (%) Graph 154 Ecology Score - displays an ongoing score of the ecological soundness of the world. A complete explanation of the Populate Window can be found below. Hold down while selecting a colour/symbol to set all Selected Species will be added or deleted and the Populate Window will close. Turn Type: Looping, Random, Zig-Zag Movement 141 Flower Season will always be the season immediately following Sprout Season. Hold down while clicking on the Pause button to working definitions relevant to gameplay. Many of the following glossary Structure 148 displays and any or all of the other single-level displays. button. Plague 96 The Health slider sets the maximum health level for the plant. The higher the Hold down while toggling any checkbox on or off to Plant Costs 178 Resources. Chapman and Hall, 1991. Life 16, 121, 144 water when it is added to the world. BARRIER TOOL bars at different locations. Right Amiga Key + Y = Change Physics The Locate an Individual Window lets you find any currently living individual survive. [PAGE: 161] ALL PLANTS New Game 84 button. Note: If you age a seed, it will not instantly turn into a full grown tree, or Design an experiment where the species with very little genetic diversity understand the display. Food Tool 114 Animal Genome 141-147 Load a Zoo 131 Each time a plant or animal is populated or born, the genetic information for times without sitting at the computer, waiting and watching, ready to dive Delete All Plants 130 listed along the left. These are the animals (if any) that eat the Local to the atmosphere. The higher the evaporation rate, the faster it loses water This setting is a "master control" for individual species' life spans as set Ticks 14, 36 the map. This is a single-level display, and can be viewed along with one There are nine slider controls for adjusting various genetic characteristics plants. IN THE WATER * Select the Copy Icon item in the Edit Menu. other. If the line travels horizontally from right to left, the predator is At the beginning of each data log is a legend or listing of each species This part of the Genome Window displays the name of the species or individual won't affect the genetic code until you click on this button. right. Animals), there will be a thin pink or black line somewhere in the display. Terborgh, John - Diversity and the Tropical Rain FOrest. Scientific American Seed Season will always be the season immediately following Flower Season. appear near the middle of the Map Window Control Panel. Record All Statistics 91, 155 Time Display 107 Right Amiga Key + F = Fast LOCAL SPECIES woes of lions living in the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania with just this [PAGE: 197] can click on these arrows to cycle forward and backward through all the resting to replenish its health. The Food slider sets the maximum amount of food the plant can store. fly and a lot to walk, could simulate a low-gravity world. Raising the energy anywhere on land or water to place a barrier. in their genetic code. This setting sets a general life span length. The The Speciate Window lets you change a chosen individual organism into another Species 17 maximum, 1/8 maximum, 1/16 maximum, 1/32 maximum, 1/64 maximum and 1/128 THE CALIFORNIA WATER RUSH Bars will appear above the icons representing the relative populations of representing the six most common repellants for the Local Species will be a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then Show Plague Pink 89 The Mutation slider controls the likelihood of the animal's offspring having can click on these arrows to cycle forward and backward through all the Census * Make any changes as necessary. changes will be activated and the window will close. species name and the individual's number. The window can be moved around Graph Information 154 [PAGE: 143] zeros manifested as energy levels in transistor switches in the memory of your changes. Help Button 28, 31, 101, 116, 122, 124, 127, 139, 147, 150, 152, 156, 158, 176 with physical survival features, which require a lot of energy. This adjustment controls how much the soil and climate will change over time. don't go around hunting and eating things they catch. (Well, other than the Click this button to activate Run Control and make it pause after a number of Right Amiga Key + U = Ultra History 95 SEASONS New Plant Button 130 colors represent what percentages. species, individually or in groups (zoos). Once you have gone from here to the Left Alt Key = In the Food Web Window: GRAPH SELECTORS release the mouse button. Organism Display Controls 99 Make Population Match Prototype Genome Carnivore - An organism that feeds on animals; a flesh-eating animal. To open the Population Interaction Window, first open the Food Web Window in Evergreen: Yes, No the exact same value. Population Window 170 BARRIERS end of this rectangle corresponds with the lowest value for that gene and the Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Message This window shows the things that change during an organism's life, like Die-Off: Immortal, Old Age, Middle Age Health (%) - displays the changes in the subject's health rating, as a Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" that marks the Population Window as Flower Season 149 approximately 1KB per animal. [PAGE: 195] health, age, height, weight, etc., that are constantly variable. (Constantly viscosity, and/or different energy returns from food sources. In order to make use of this data once you get it into a spreadsheet (or identical installation programs. To install SimLife: to start over. because of isolation. the Title Bar. It will go away if you lcick in the Close Box. the wind blows the moisture from west to east. Air picks up moisture as When the Water tool is active, the cursor says H2O. Click or click and drag icons representing all the plants are displayed below. Prefer/Avoid/Ignore 144 make your experimental outcome different? directly from the Edit Window by using the Life Tool in Show Phenotype mode Species - A category of biological classification ranking immediately below This adjustment sets the amount of Barriers that will appear scattered around An explanation of what information each checkbox represents can be Phenotype - The physical manifestation of a genetic trait; the features of AutoSpeciate 92 multisync monitor attached. The standard version may also be computer. Since we humans can't see energy levels in transistors, we've put wolf/caribou relationship, then to see the results when the wolf Next to the up and down arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on this after being partially eaten by animals. percentage of maximum health. Data Log File 197 SHOW GENES submenu of choices, slide the cursor to the species of your mortal desire and Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Message [PAGE: 156] the menu, then slide the cursor to the number you want. The choices are 1, MEDIUM Local Species, whether the Local Species is a plant, an animal, or All Plants Selected Species 15, 27, 81, 99, 100, 123, 129 To the right of the prey icons is a bar graph showing how many of each prey the cursor on land to turn it into water. Click or click and drag on water to ON THE LAND [PAGE: 141] VARIABLE WINDOW Click or click and drag in the Edit Window to place toxins. randomly populate the world. for the pause button. PLANT VARIABLES The bottom section displays the Height, Weight, and Age of the plant, both Chromosomes 20 changed a world's altitude in the Edit Window and want to update the these flash cards into SimLife as a pictorial analogy: a way to think of these faces a new environmental pressure such as dwindling food source, climate Natural Selection - Differential reproduction in nature, leading to an THE PLANT GENOME Each of these black rectangles represents one continuous gene. The left side cannot be displayed at the same time as any other multi-level display. Plant Icons 135 the following: The five possible life span settings are: Brief, Short, Medium, Long and Pause Button 29, 69, 101 Continuous genes are those that can have a wide range of values, for example, and caribou. a mutation. as well as draw or change icons for the organisms and make a few basic genetic Laws of Physics Window. big plant in my office that likes to munch on editors that take liberties with ADDENDUM & QUICKSTART GUIDE & KEYBOARD CHART If you click on any of shown predators or preys, they'll pop to the center and EDIT RECTANGLE The Barrier tool lets you put down impenetrable barriers in the ecosystem that To choose a set of plant icons, click and hold on the Icons button to open a or directly from the Edit Window by using the Life Tool in Show Variables mode [PAGE: 135] Locate an Individual... 91 life, and see what happens. Then determine the genetic changes that would roaming 143 * Use the smaller-sized worlds: the smaller the world, the less memory GENDER Group Selection 160 The History Window can be opened from the Windows Menu (in the Census submenu) Gender: Male, Female, Asexual, Sterile Note: Plants can be eaten but not necessarily killed, which can by seeds that can sprout. Adult age gene; Weapons gene; Turn Style gene; Persistence gene; Species0 techincally be called parasitism as opposed to predation, but they're Nectar 46 SPECIATE WINDOW shown here as prey. MORTALITY WINDOW predator and prey populations are stable. If the line is circular, then you development in the life cycle; shedding leaves each year. etc. The Biology Lab can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the Food Value 176 RIVERS AND LAKES Right Amiga Key + L = Locate an Individual single-step the simulation one Tick. animals we are familiar with. Methuselan. To change the life span, click and hold on the down-arrow Young, Paul - The Botany Coloring Book. Harper & Row, 1982. To change the Mutation Rate, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open Windows Menu. It can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the machines. * Choose the icon you want to draw or change, then click on it. Design an experiment with a stable cyclic balance between wolves (carnivores) MAIN LINKS and the more water it needs to survive. Also, the higher the evaporation rate, [PAGE: 159] [PAGE: 166] The Map Window Title Bar displays the scenario name, or the world name if you D - F structure, eating habits, etc. finding food, avoiding becoming food and reproducing. choice, then release the mouse button. Food Web 95 MAKE IT SO being speciated. Since it is an individual, it will have a number after the of one individual organism instead of the species prototype. Regional Weather Variation 125 Edit Level 44 Food 19, 146 Water Button 38 then expose each group to different environmental pressures and track the [PAGE: 157] Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID New Species Population [PAGE: 190] and clicking on an organism. species name. Artifacts 38, 105, 181 Action gene; Food Danger gene; Water Danger gene; Health Danger gene; [PAGE: 198] organisms in the ecosystem. It can be opened from the Windows Menu (in the The two types of displays are chosen by clicking on the Use Colors? button. A Save All Plants 130 The Climate Lab can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID New Species Pop. farmers still grow crops that require huge amounts of water and homeowners * What is there in the real world that's missing from SimLife that might Make Prototype Genome Match Population 139 This line marks the value of this gene for the Prototype of the species. You This adjustment controls the overall Mutation Rate in the world, over- The Graphs Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging [PAGE: 153] release the mouse button. Seasons 149 the event will appear next to the punch card. Filter Food - Organic matter or minute organisms often found in water currents Never Mind makes this window go away without making any changes. Design an experiment where you have many water-hungry plants flourishing in a Opening Windows Sprout Season is a pull-down menu with your choice of four seasons in which Year Length 179 interpreting the boxes and the numbers they represent is provided on the the year and have two controls: a slider to set the amount of variation increases from left to right. To set the Peak Season, click and hold on the move in any of the four ways: Swimming, Walking, Climbing and Flying. Since Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Annual Statistics is a gridlike graph with types of trees on the left (the Y axis) and seed and SYSTEM INFORMATION Lab Book 53, 70-71, 74 Tiny 127 Right Amiga Key + 7 = Graphs Click here to save all the currently defined animal species to disk in a increases, plant-growing conditions improve so more plants can grow. This in toxic when introduced into the tissues, and typically capable of [PAGE: 182] material). and change the energy it takes to do these things. THE BATTLE OF THE SEXLESS There is also a Clear button. Use this to completely clear an icon if you want survive. This is especially useful in newer ecosystems that haven't had time only flying organisms can cross. When the setting is medium age, the animal will die somewhere between species in a few different ways. brain than something with an isect's head. (Chauvinism? Maybe - but if any The Local Species of the graph is the plant or animal whose information is CAUSES OF DEATH The Diversity Window is a graphic display of which ecological niches are being Expert 89 The pictures of the flash cards were chosen and drawn to help you understand Genetics 20 release the mouse button. the Genome Window as slider controls. Click and hold on the Help button or on any slider or control names for Population Interaction Window. It can be opened with the World Building Options... item in the Technical Each time a pair of animals or plants mate, the event is reported. The first Adjust the sliders by clicking and dragging the pointer. The variation DATA LOG FILE 3. Pick points at mountain peaks and start rivers flowing down. Click and hold on the Help button to see an on-screen reminder of what each File Commands SPECIAL AMIGA FEATURES population has that value for the gene. Sample Experiments 190-193 Note: If you have deselected Record All Statistics in the Technical they increase the depth. There will always be at least some good soil in the graphs and charts you could ever want. All file loading and saving is achieved through the standard Amiga reproduce. Make Population Match Prototype Genome 138 tiger. If the slider is all the way to the right, then the animal has highly Teleport 97 open a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, killing off the prey faster than they can reproduce. consistency with the MATE data format. moisture data to the new landform. the types and numbers of organisms they represent. master of this ecosystem. It is easy to get high ecology scores for short indicate how big your animal will have to be to hold all the features and The Contiuous Gene display is a little tricky, but understanding it is very Behavior. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, supports A1200 and A4000 machines utilising the AGA graphics census data is only kept in memory for 50 years: if you stop the simulation function in organisms and are passed on in reproduction. the altitude tool and make very high mountains. Hide All Plants 88 THE INFORMATION Each time a species is created, the event is reported. * Use the Plant and Animal Limits in the Laws of Physics Window. going on in the ecosystem), with diversity of species, the number of years increase in the frequency of some genes or gene HELP Edit Menu 85 smooth distribution of temperatures, and sweep to the right. As you go ALL DEATHS The Selected Species is the type of plant or animal you want to add or remove. scale of the map, objects, items and organisms in it are tiny and are The Evaporation Rate slider controls the rate at which the plant loses water scenarios. MAKE IT SO There are four icons for each animal, but only two that you can draw or an eye. Click on any organism to see its flash card picture. Toxins toggles on and off the display of any toxin deposits on the map. The Mortality Window is a graphic display of the causes of death in the Both AGA and STANDARD versions of the SimLife program have The top section is very similar to the top plant section. It shows the current Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. You Life Button 38 combinations and to a decrease in the frequency of others. GRAPHS WINDOW Hold down while using Carrot to call only Highlighted Food Sources 33, 121, 126 Census - A usually complete enumeration of a population; specifically, a will scroll so the highlighted organism stays in view. will be activated and the window will close. an organism's genetic code, but the changes won't be noticeable until a future Each line in the data log file starts with the four-letter abbreviation, as Gestation Time 145 Adult 144 Animal Variables 183 Seed Season 149 addendum for details. Prefer (+), Avoid (-) or Ignore (0). MUTAGENS To change the movement cost, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open Gonick, Larry and Mark Wheelis - The Cartoon Guide to Genetics. Updated Chromosome - A filamentous, threadlike structure in the cell nucleus (in ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Right Amiga Key + E = Edit DAY LENGTH The Water tool toggles on and off the display of water in the Edit Window, and SEED 0000.000.000 1.00.01.030 30 Trails, like all other data layers, exist even when their display is turned Disasters Menu 96 genetic level is actually a lot easier than it looks-once you understand what Variables 94 Double-clicking in the Edit Rectangle brings the Edit Window to the front. world in large numbers, as opposed to the Edit Window, where you can only add for all four selectors. [PAGE: 126] time, this graph maps the ratios of two populations (predator and prey) and experimental purposes.) the black bars drift away from the Prototype, they represent the change in the the Data Log file format. the faster the plant will grow. characterized by variety, difference and deep range. Included information: Animal Icons 136 seen next to each checkbox, that indentifies the type of information the There are four slider controls, two drop-down menus and a series of icons and Average 89 The species selected here does not affect the Selected Species in the THE JOYSTICK Advanced 89 Gestation - The carrying of young in the uterus and the concomitant ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ even sprout - it will become a very old seed. Old seeds die. Health 146, 149 release the mouse button. Plant and Animal Limits in the Laws of Physics Window, and Populating land the color key and/or color display may not be available. or remove one organism at a time. a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then seed, with flowers, with leaves (but no flowers) and with no leaves. You can Right Amiga Key + M = Map of the screen, integrated with the Dashboard. See your machine-specific * Click and hold on the icon above to reveal a submenu of all life-forms The size of this file depends on the number of species and length of the you can see the gene pool information for one organism is if there is only one This is a single-level display, and can be viewed along with one of the release the mouse button. Note: Run Control will stay active until you disable it. There are two different types of display controls: multi-level displays - only SCORE developed social graces when it comes to food. These species will hunt or Civilization 97 History Window 42, 174 DIED 0000.000.000 1.02.01.023 12 You can also edit a species by double-clicking on the species' icon on the this button to see a brief explanation of what this window does and how it individual in the Edit Window with the Show Genes function of the Life Tool PROTOTYPES AND INDIVIDUALS This is a deceptively powerful button that goes way beyond the capabilities of adjusted with a pop-up menu, the seventh with a slider bar. Goodies Submenu 87 This control sets how many Ticks (simulation cycles) constitute one day. The Click Set Defaults if you want to make the current settings in this window Life Span 144, 178 Selet Level plant or animal icon, or by clicking either the New Plant or New Goldberg, David E. - Genetic Algorithms in Search, Optimization & Machine setting sets a general rate, and the species' genes set an individual rate as Click this button to close the Speciate Window without doing anything you [PAGE: 133] current species. on-screen help. To change the Selected Species, click and hold on the arrow button to open a You can hold down the Option key (or the Control Key if your keyboard has no animals from running amok and taking over all your computer's processing time. it's warm with long days; wetness helps, too. displayed. Nine genes can be displayed at once, so all plant genes can be turn angle helps an animal thorougly explore a small area, while a low turn become the Local Species and this window will enter One Species mode (see Rainfall Variation 151 The words in the selector and the corresponding graph will appear in this same time as any other multi-level display. World Building Options... 91 Flood 96 Climate Lab 64, 94, 151 scattered around the world when it is generated. These can be set from none to No Graph 154 The Sprout Moisture slider controls the amount of moisture required for the 5. Once on the plains, flood the rivers out into lakes. variable is the SimLife oxymoron of the week.) When you make changes in this Oooooh - this moan is the sound of an animal dying. either choose from the included icons or draw on your own. You can also choose * Use the Plant and Animal Limits in the Laws of Physics Window. them from the disk or prevent them from being used in other worlds or rivers and mountains, the decide which and how many artifacts you want in the buttons that define the animal's behavior. In SimLife, all behavior is geared my writing, if you can take a hint.) designing. Larger world sizes are not available on some computers while in Novice 89 Diversity 95 Local Species 16, 81, 153, 157, 160, 166 HELP DNA - Any of various nucleic acids that are localized especially in cell offspring. Set Random Seed... 90 the default conditions henceforth and forevermore (well, at least until you To change the health cost, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open it goes over lakes, loses it over plains, drops moisture on west side of The first level of the Biology Lab is for selecting an organism to work with. Wilson, E. O. - Life on Earth. Sinauer Associates, Inc., 1978. Lake Size lets you choose to have large or small lakes in the world. If you problem. Age (% of Max) Graph 154 submenu of 64 predraws animals, then slide the cursor to the one you want and * The vast majority of species on earth use sex during reproduction to BUTTONS Note: on some computers, the Map Window Control Panel is found at the top Software Toys(R) 4 Species Naming System 80 TEL 0444 246333 FAX 0444 248996 a percentage of this general rate. possible day lengths are 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 Ticks. Days 14 organism. It can be opened from the Technical submenu in the Simulation Menu. Artificial Life - The study of and attempt to simulate life and lifelike This section of the genetic code consists of two sliders and one pull-down Mating Difference 48, 56, 134 the screen by clicking and dragging the Title Bar. It will go away if you gather together and share food with any member of their species. Sprout Season: Summer, Fall, Winter, Spring Click this button if you want to use the Subject as the starting point for OrgotID is the female. Highlight 39, 112 Clicking on the button to the left of each food source toggles it on and off Temperature Variation 151 genetic code; it is a display of the results of the genes and environment. of the rectangle corresponds with the lowest value for that gene and the right that provide a source of nutrition for certain animals. black and white mode. Click here when you are satisfied with all the settings and want to exit this chipset and STANDARD which supports all non AGA Amiga and why. Option key) while clicking on the Populate button to randomly populate the Mortality information can be shown for any individual species, or for All Reference 79-197 This button toggles between displaying the continuous gene section of this NAME Hold down while clicking the Populate... button to divergent evolution in the different groups. plant's seeds to sprout. [PAGE: 203] MAKE IT SO point) of a species. Recording Data 70 POPULATION INTERACTION WINDOW PRIORITY HOUSE, CHARLES AVENUE, BURGESS HILL, WEST SUSSEX RH15 9PQ other program), you'll need to know how all the data is arranged. The middle card has 18 possible pictures, which represent three factors: based on the ecology score (which is a factor of a whole bunch of things and caribou (herbivores), then go hunting and drastically reduce the wolf The Speciate Window can only be opened from the Edit Window by setting the A - C on the Dashboard. graphed. The Local Species can be any plant or animal, or all plants or all HARDWARE REQUIRED [PAGE: 204] nuclei that are the molecular basis of heredity in many organisms, and revert to using protection on future products. or seeds) and the intelligence (large, medium or small). generation-the organism won't re-form itself to match the new code. the data go into the same data file you were using or closed, as well as when a game is paused, the simulation time is reset to their litters spread out in all directions. If a litter occurs near water, Edit 94 Water 121, 146 together, each in a different niche, become more than the sum of the submenu) or through the Census button on the Dashboard. Click on Never Mind if you want to leave the Plant Genome Window without any For animals, the most important parts of making a living are their type(s) of The disks supplied have been compressed and will require SPECIES * All organisms and their locations on the map then there are no representatives of that species in the ecosystem at the The eight most common food sources, including prey (those who are eaten by the This gives you numerical feedback on your skills and progress. The score is SIMULATION STUFF ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ population. See if reducing the predators is better or worse for the prey. Eldredge, Niles - Macro-Evolutionary Dynamics: Species, Niches & Adaptive submenu of the Simulation Menu, the percentage-based graphs and the World Design Window 32, 62, 125-127 % Genes from Father 48, 134 smart alecs as manual writers. brief explanation of what this window does and how it works. a brief explanation of what this window does and how it works. animals, and games. Here is a listing and explanation of each of the types. ecosystem's climate. When set to high, the seasonal changes in both INDIVIDUAL ANIMAL DATA FILE release the mouse button. Both the name of the Local Species and its icon will Click on this button to generate a tiny world, which will be 32 x 64 tiles. Main Links mode, then hold down the Option key (or Control key if your SimLife is a powerful simulation engine that can be put to use in a This section controls seven simulation factors including time. Six factors are POPULATION keyboard has no Option key) and click on one of the predator icons. Complexity, Volume X. Addison Wesley, 1992. Home Gene Splicer-Dicer 47 movement on the bottom (X axis). There is a box at each grid intersection This section of the Gene Pool Window displays all the information on the As mentioned above, changing movement costs can simulate different gravitities Sprout Moisture 149 In addition, turning off sounds and music in the Goodies submenu of the To understand this window, keep in mind that creatures in SimLife have two ENERGY REQUIREMENT BAR The Sprout Temperature slider controls the temperature that must be reached in This section adjusts how much energy is lost by health-related processes and icons, then edit them yourself. Right Amiga Key + T = Climate Lab Show All Layers 88 window and proceed with building a new world. Die-off 144 * Select the Copy Icon item in the Edit Menu. Mutation - Any relatively stable heritable change in the genetic material. days and years as long as possible and increase the life span of organisms. can click on these arrows to cycle forward and backward through all the Goals of SimLife 2 The Populate Window can be reached through the Populate button in the Map Click Never Mind if you want to make this window go away without making any This section of the Genome Window deals with the animal's overall health. The graph will show its percentage of the total plant biomass. If the subject is ANYWHERE world size. CHANGE ME TO SPECIES SHOWN BELOW and building new worlds. Nectar Button 150 Data Log files are created when you activate the Data Logging option in the DOS/Windows Dashboard 25, 98 WATER TOOL The Danger slider sets the food storage level for when the animal does nothing Populate... 88 predation, and will not work when the prey is filter food. GENE POOL WINDOW GROUP SELECTION Dragging the arrow all the way to the right causes the birth to occur require so much energy to survive that it probably couldn't eat enough to stay Peaks. McGraw-Hill, 1989. predators is shown on the upper-left side of the grid, the number of living slide the cursor to your choice and release the mouse button. FROM FLOPPY DRIVE can have: Sticky, Dropping, Drifting and Fruit. Click and hold on the down- LOADING AND SAVING FILES Left Alt Key = In Data Logging Dialogue Box: Soil will erode if there are no plants on it. Growth controls how much energy it takes to recover from injury, plagues Window is explained in detail below. value: Tiny, Low, High, or Huge. change. There are two stages of life represented by animal icons: child and NEVER MIND creatures will only have one food source, one type of seed, one method of The Main Links display is the default setting for this window, and is shown This window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the Title the Undo button, or by selecting Undo in the Edit Menu. digestive system required to absorb the different materials. in the ecosystem. Discrete genes are like yes/no or multiple-choice genes. They have one value. the world when it is added. Turn Type 143 lakes have the most. Filter food changes with the seasons: more when Ignore 144 animals at once. When this species is selected, it is active in the Graphs Maximum Size Slider 150 The genes are arranged into groups of related genes. The group name is Dashboard. Whenever you start a new plant or animal, you will be editing the window. (It will be explained in detail below.) Keep in mind: TEMPERATURE VARIATION International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive important to interpreting changes in the Gene Pool, which is needed in many Number of Children is a pull-down menu that controls the number of offspring beginning a new species. After you click on this button, the Biology Lab Right Amiga Key + 5 = Food Web MAKING A LIVING TOXINS In addition, if the Local Species is a single species (not All Plants or All Click on this button if you wish to leave the Populate Window without adding The Roaming slider adjusts how often the animal will move when it doesn't Right Amiga Key + B = Biology Lab and clicking on an organism. ecosystem. It also displays the predators (if any) that are responsible for Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" that marks the Graphs Window as buttons. To view the latest occurrences, click on Latest. SimEarth(R) 4 limiting memory use and limiting screen redraws. * Slide the cursor to the plant or animal you want, then release the mouse Hold down while selecting the Local Species or The basic process of world design is to first choose settings for climate, understand the display. Individual Organism Naming System 81 [PAGE: 115] Making a Living 172 Technical Submenu 65, 90 Biology Lab icon in the Dashboard. You can also open the Biology Lab directly Bar and it will go away if you click in the Close Box. KEYBOARD CHART submenu of the Simulation Menu. survive. Try to keep this bar at 3/4 or less. If this bar gets all the way different directions. Right Amiga Key + O = Dashboard Movement: Walk, Climb, Swim, Fly Unfortunately, these animals always escape, and often don't have any natural information: using colors and using bar graphs. You will want long days for behavioral experiments and short days for long- ranges from none to many, which will cover the entire world except for the then release the mouse button. want large green (thirsty) lawns. This part of the Genome Window displays the name of the species or individual The Map Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the If you place a toxin on top of a creature, the creature will be drawn on top The Persist slider controls how long a creature will follow a trail before If you make a mistake, you can undo your last drawing action by clicking on Fanfare - this sound announces a birth. or even compliment you. The middle section gives numerical and graphic representation of the animal's Mice 13 Click here to save all the currently defined plants to disk in a single file. [PAGE: 145] seasons. Toxin Tool 115 SIMLIFE BIBLIOGRAPHY in size. It is created from the Select Level of the Biology Lab when you Tutorial. You will then be walked through the basics of SimLife. A menu that deal with the animal's maturation rate and length of life. special Tutorial Menu will appear to help you navigate and access action (the arrow on the right), or is in danger (the arrow on the left). The [PAGE: 202] Turn Angle: Low, Med-Low, Med-High, High Temperature 120 [PAGE: 117] floppies, please ensure that you have 3 formatted blank disks for the scenarios. happened in the ecosystem during the present game or experiment. can change (manipulate, heal, feed, starve, etc.) the plant by dragging This setting controls how much the amount of daylight per day changes absolutely need to find food or water right away. Title Bar. It'll go away if you click in the Close Box. PLANT LIMIT Temperature Button 37 The Share Food slider deals with the social aspects of eating. If the slider Phenotype 94 can click on these arrows to cycle forward and backward through all the Census a Census Window. digitally and actually have a number of discrete values, but there are enough or through the Census button on the Dashboard. this: There is no free lunch. Even in SimLife. The price you pay is in energy fairly easy to figure out the organism's food, brain size, method of movement, Depending on your experiment, changing the physics of time can help your GENE 0000.000.000 1.00.01.001 1.00.01.000 See below special Help screens. population drops. SAMPLE EXPERIMENTS in the machine-specific addendum. appear below the pictures. [PAGE: 176] Filter food consists of plants and animals in the ocean, the soil and the Right Amiga Key + 2 = Phenotype Click on this button if you want the Selected Species to be placed in the Number of Children 145 discrete genes of the Local Species. Window Control Panel, and through the Goodies submenu in the Simulation Menu. The current values for food for any individual animal can be seen in the to asexual reproduction) provided an advantage to a species. [PAGE: 136] The Map Window is a satellite view of the entire world. It is where you BARRIERS Click here to open a dialog box or requester to load in a previously saved * The state of all windows and menu settings. Since the genes in plants and animals are different, so are the groups as The Action slider sets the water storage level that provokes the animal to For instance, as far as animal movement genes go, either the individual animal Complexity, Volume VI. Addison Wesley, 1989. processes in artificial media, including software (computer Menu. The soil gets worse as you go up in altitude. If you add water, it will consumption. If you create an animal that can climb and swim and fly, and it's animals have several additional fields in addition to the basic fields. inducing antibody formation. Individual Plant Data File 196 animal makes while moving. Altitude Tool 109 plants or animals in the water. It also covers real accidents like water Click on this button if you want the Selected Species to be placed randomly on CONTINUOUS GENE DISPLAY - MONOCHROME Speciation - The process of the formation of new species. There are four ways animals can move. They can walk, climb, swim or fly. The displayed at the top of this section, and the individual genes are listed Toxins 32, 121, 126 If you are interested in the genetic drift over many generations, shortening Attracted to : There are no "set" choice displays for Attracted to... Icons competition for resources. If different plants and animals each live a little Clone 39, 111 NEW ANIMAL Rivers and Lakes, when selected, causes only the rivers and lakes to be Genes mode and clicking on an organism. Show Phenotype bring up a small window displaying the "flash card" image of When Speciate is active, the cursor will appear as a sort of triangle of three release the mouse button. Near the upper-right corner of the window are up and down arrow buttons. You This section controls how much energy is required by plants to "make their color or shade. down-arrow buttons to open a pull-down menu of the seasons, then slide the mountains and is drier on the east side. Since air loses moisture going term, many-generation experiments. Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Event Message Cold Wave 96 Map Window Button 30 POPU 0000.000.000 1.00.01.000 30 DELETE ALL ANIMALS below). Locate an Individual Window 188 sprouting season before the seed will sprout. You can either choose from the included icons or draw your own. You can also Gene - A sequence of DNA nucleotides that codes for a particular polypeptide organism currently being edited. If it is an individual organism, it will have turn it into land. Palette 49 or an RNA molecule. Genes provide information for structure and Moisture Zones 181 any plant or animal. When Show Phenotype is active, the cursor will appear as the animal has each litter. Click and hold on the down-arrow button to reveal Click on this button if you want the Selected Species to be spread all over Many of the settings below have a range of possible values that goes from MINDSCAPE INTERNATIONAL backup copies of the previous versions of each of these files. If you Starting Data 73 Dashboard. or deleting any organisms. just a little. submenu) or through the Census button on the Dashboard. choose icons, then edit them yourself. You can click on these arrows to cycle forwards and backwards through all display, and can be viewed along with one of the multi-level displays and * Seeds that are eaten never sprout. Prototype Genome 21, 82 change, or new predator. Life Tool to Speciate and clicking on any organism. submenu of 32 predrawn plants, then slide the cursor to the one you want and Prototype 129 wet environment, then slowly start to dry things up. See if you can develop Weapons 145 many. Hold down Left Alt Key while cloning to cause mutation [PAGE: 120] [PAGE: 189] Zoo file. A Zoo is a group of plants or animals saved together by using the Return. The first data field is the simulation time, showing the year, Trails 122 Turning 143 Each time a new plant or animal is created or populated, the species There are differences in the icon section for plants and animals. "afford" to reproduce. Hold down while raising or lowering Temperature or G - L A Button 26, 99 Taking Data 76 the Census Windows. One Species 167 lets you add or remove water from the ecosystem. Comet 97 and properties that deal with time and energy in your world. It can be opened plants that will meet the same needs without needing the same water. When you change the Selected Species in the Populate Window, it will also Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" that marks the Gene Pool Window as MAXIMUM SIZE BAR The bottom section of the Graphs Window is where the graphs are displayed. every 50 years and save it to disk (each time under a different name), you can FEATURES Design an experiment that shows whether or not sexual reproduction (as opposed on the left) and danger level (arrow on the right). This section also contains Herbivore - An animal that eats plants. A detailed description of Mutation is found below in the Reference section. Other Keys right side of the window. EDIT Who's Eating Me? 157 The Variables Window shows and lets you change the current status of any Asexual - Involving or reproducing by reproductive processes (as cell Barriers toggles on and off the display of any barriers on the map. This is intersection point of the X and Y axes. The number of plants at each CONTINUOUS GENE DISPLAY - COLOR Artifacts, when selected, causes only the artifact placement to be rebuilt file requester. In addition, SimLife gives you the option of keeping walks or it doesn't; it flies or it doesn't. Yes or no. Relating to gender, Plant Limit 179 MAKE IT SO or All Animals. Food Chain - the sequence of organisms, including producers, consumers, and The bottom section of this window is the Brain Box. Whatever the animal much like the Gel Electrophoresis analysis of actual DNA in a biology [PAGE: 191] HIGHLIGHT The percentages are represented as bars that increase from left to right. These are the fields recorded for each individual plant: a number as part of its name. Filter Feeder Food shows the amount of food available for the filterfeeding GLOSSARY SOIL DEPTH below with a bar chart showing what percentage of the population has this water. Window only - it does not become the Selected Species in the Dashboard. a Census Window. current time. get continuous data and graphs for the whole experiment. Typed by Rygar! [PAGE: 169] Recombination - The formation by the processes of crossing-over and M - P FOOD SOURCES Macintosh Dashboard 25, 98 HELP In addition to Ultra-Food, there are six food sources that animals can eat: diversity is in the hands of natural selection and the species' genetic This adjustment sets the maximum number of animals that can occupy the world middle of the Map Window Control Panel. YEARS MAP WINDOW TITLE BAR Show All Plants 88 Each time a plant sprouts from a seed, the event is reported. If the GENE [PAGE: 193] Since flying organisms can cross barriers, to isolate them you'll have to use decomposers, through which energy and materials are made and cursor to the season of your choice and release the mouse button. change in the Dashboard. zero, or a game is loaded. Speed Submenu 85, 86 Turn Angle 143 of the toxin. You may want to temporarily turn off the life layer when placing The Gene Pool Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging not including unsprouted seeds; Number of births or sprouts in this species; the genus or subgenus, comprising related organisms or populations Old Age Slider 150 The Prefer/Avoid/Ignore controls set what types of plants or animals your [PAGE: 194] are constructed of a double helix held together by hydrogen bonds Zoo button. a Census Window. Adult is the age, or point in the life span, where the animal reaches This section of the Gene Pool Window displays the total population of the Gould, James L. and Carol Gould - Sexual Selection, Scientific American This setting controls the seasonal changes in temperature. Show Steps 181 Ashby, W. Ross - Design for a Brain. Chapman & Hall, 1960. Graph Display Area 155 Title Bar. Clicking on the Close Box on the left side of the Title Bar makes Barrier Tool 114 This part of the window is a grid where the graph is displayed. The predator the next time you build a world. Down-arrow Buttons 15, 27, 80 world, but it looks so cool that it seems to go faster. at the genetic level. survival. ways - they are not in direct competition with each other, and more can Adams, Douglas - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Harmony Book, 1979. affect how many of them will be eaten - more if their food value is low, Click here to make a copy of the Selected Species that you can then edit and When you activate Data Logging, you will be presented with a Moisture to limit effect to one tile. The Time slider controls the amount of time the animal takes to produce potentially capable of interbreeding. 8. Build the soil layer. The best soil is under water and in moist zones. simulation while inspecting variables. [PAGE: 181] interaction between genotype and environment. Animals 18 The icon drawing process is simple: animals such as crustaceans and whales in the ocean, and spiders, insect- maturity. Animals grow in size until they reach adult age. The more information in memory, the more data the simulation has to check and CLIMATE LAB off. Trails are used by animals to find or avoid each other for eating or MUTAGEN TOOL [PAGE: 192] [PAGE: 148] HELP viewed in the map. The display controls do not affect the world or the gene pool-the evolution of the genes through natural selection and mutation. T - Z received as a percentage of the maximum dose. Right Amiga Key + 3 = Evaluation window, the changes in the organism take place immediately. Type Year.Day.Tic Date Time Message Action 146, 147 is very hard. is currently thinking will appear here. is shown along the left (Y axis) the prey along the bottom (X axis). The Goodies and Options Click Make It So if you are happy with the current settings and want them to LOCAL SPECIES Return to Select Level you want. In addition to individual species, you can also select either All Its icon will move to the middle of the display and its predators and prey MOUNTAINS Temperature changes with the seasons and directly affects plants and the Title Bar. It will go away if you click in the Close Box. Food Web Window 165-167 the world at any one time. Since the simulation runs slower with more angle allows an animal to hastily cover a larger territory. The Water slider sets the maximum amount of water the plant can store. Making the Simulation Run Faster 194 world then pick a size for the world, name it and "Make It So." the new world when it is generated. These can be set from none to many. operated in high resolution if you have a flicker fixer and 2MB or Census Windows. All Plants or All Animals, the graph will show its percentage of combined This control sets how many days constitute one year. The possible year lengths Supplied by JBM to foraging for food, finding a mate and fleeing enemies. one (or none) of which can be displayed at a time, and single level the Map Window go away. SMALL This section of the Gene Pool Window both displays and allows you to select All Deaths 157 # Children: 1, 2, 4, 8 TINY In addition to the usual Amiga file saving controls, you SimCity(R) 4 Ultra-Food 19, 33, 114, 121, 126 Since the two stages of the animal's life look very similar, you can: Mortality Window 43, 156-157 high energy cost for gestation, only a very well-fed organism can continuous genes of the Local Species. When on, Auto Tracking can cause frequen screen redraws, which slow Size 145 you click in the Close Box. The window will also go away if the organism DAYS one growing season. line contains, followed by one or more data fields. Fields are a Census Window. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ * Turn off Record All Statistics in the Technical submenu of the Simulation The Evaluation Window gives you feedback on how well you are doing as an Features 145 TEMPERATURE HELP Click this button to close the Run Control Window without activating it. them from the disk or prevent them from being used in other worlds or Plant Gene Groups 161 This is the display of the current individual organism (the Subject) that is Map Window 30, 117-122 [PAGE: 139] The submenu only shows the adult icons in one direction, but all four icons Rename Button 60 7. Create the temperature zones: start on left. Begin with a random but the odds of mutations occuring in nearby plants and animals. expand their gene pool. are there. Click on the All Deaths button to return to the default display. it gets colder. On flat ground, it gets hotter (desert effect). If you Map Window Control Panel 31, 118-122 Learning. Addison Wesley, 1989. Size (% of Max) Graph 154 Right Amiga Key + J = Music on/off Gestation 145 want a backup, click in the Make Backups box in the Save File Window and fine-tune its genetic code. Moisture Zones, when selected, causes only the moisture zones to be rebuilt Each SimLife organism is represented by a combination of three pictures. Each Right Amiga Key + H = History Warning: The Data Log File can get huge. Depending on the size This is the display of the Local Species: the species whose food web mating, or because of genetic attraction or avoidance. the species population; Average size of the species population; Total biomass with the seasons. The presence of plants increases moisture. As moisture The Graphs Window is a very versatile tool for extracting information from the Map Window Display Area 118 TOXIN TOOL animal. allow the life to better survive in the new surroundings. text messages describing them. The events that are listed here include Nectar - A sweet liquid that is secreted by the nectaries of a plant, BIOLOGY LAB Click on this button when you are happy with all the settings above. The Modified 89 island) are isolated from each other, and see if and how the paths that MAKING THE SIMULATION RUN FASTER Type SpeciesID Species Name The Nectar button is a yes/no toggle that controls whether or not the plant placing mutagens. current animal will be attracted to or repelled by. Click on the small On/Off button below the icon to turn on and off the display [PAGE: 184] Die-off is a pull-down menu with three choices for death age (die-off is Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" which marks the Diversity Window as name in a river. To change the maximum animals per species, click and hold on the down-arrow the Climate Lab button in the Dashboard. Windows. Small 127 can look at the prototype value as the "starting position" for each gene. When Make Prototype Genome Match Population off all water in the ecosystem. Click here to remove all animals from the world. This only removes them from The Variables Window can be opened in two ways. From the Windows Menu - if a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then each plant. The higher the bar, the greater the population. If there is no prejudice, but because it recognizes the true differences between the two produces nectar. gene. The bar charts range from 0% on the left to 100% on the right. Since Type Year.Day.Tic OrgotID OrgotID Click on this button when you have set the amount of time you want the The Data Log file also contain genetic descriptions of each animal that lives [PAGE: 119] and toxins. Change Picture to Match Prototype Genome Undo 85 GENDER This is a display of the name of the Selected Species. To select a Local Species, click and hold on the upper down-arrow button to Just below the Close Box is a punch card within a punch card that marks the representing the six most common attractants for the Local Species will be YEAR LENGTH Click and hold on the Help button to see an on-screen reminder of what places, and generally live the same lifestyle, there will be a lot of Designing organisms through the flash cards is somewhat limited. These display. Show Genes allows you to inspect the genes of any individual plant or animal. DISABLE Update All Windows 88 trees of animals in your experiments. Genetics - A branch of biology that deals with the heridity and variation of The %Female slider controls the percentage of offspring that are female. independent assortment of new combinations of genes in progeny animal. The higher the bar, the greater the population. If there is no bar, The Food Web Window can be opened from the Windows Menu (in the Census [PAGE: 183] Right Amiga Key + 9 = Population When the Mutagen tool is active, the cursor becomes the radiation symbol. reveal a submenu of all possible choices, then slide the cursor to your choice Aside from setting the actual simulation speed in the Speed submenu of the dialogue box. differently - eat different foods, move differently, spread seeds in different and a drop-down menu to set the season where the variation reaches its peak. animals stranded on land during a drought. Also, when animals have children, recalculate every cycle. Ways to limit memory usage are: Here you can change or edit the icons that represent the existing creatures, Technical submenu of the Simulation Menu. When active, once a day all the chains containing alternate links of deoxyribose and phosphate. When Show Genes is active, the cursor will appear as a DNA spiral and pencil. eating birds and anteaters on the land. It is a multi-level display, and Number of deaths in this species; Water level for this species; Health level nectar, plants, animals, fruit, filter food (plankton and near-microscopic Conserving Memory 194 displayed using small black bar graphs. The key at the top will help you BACK TO FOOD WEB consumed in a community; an order of predation in which PLANT ZOO FILE Food Sources: Nectar, Fruit, Filter, Plants, Animals, Seeds periods of time - the challenge is to keep a constant high score. females left), new species creations, etc. Drought 97 The icon drawing process for animals is even simpler than for plants: you Births - displays the changes in the subject's births. NUMBER File Menu 84 with the Change Physics... item in the Technical submenu of the Simulation and release the mouse button. An icon representing your choice will appear air that range from microscopic size to the size of large insects. Filter Energy Requirement Bar 147 To change the days per year, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open Animals can sense and follow other animals' trails. This is the SimLife Max 146, 147 don't have to draw the "flipped" icons-they are automatically generated for Maximum Size Bar 147 Environment 17 Smite 39, 111 Window-opening Buttons 29 MISCELLANEOUS SIM-STUFF SIM LIFE * Make any changes as necessary. of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice and release the food is at the bottom of the food chain. definitions are more broad, formal denotations of terms. superceded by death due to starvation, dehydration or predation): immortal, For more information and for the file format, see your machine-specific then slide the cursor to the gender (or lack thereof) of your choice. simulation in any way, just what you see at a particular time. [PAGE: 128] the arrows. you. Splatt 53-78 1991. Continous Gene Display - Color 164 checking the following boxes. If you hold EDIT LEVEL Sacredness of All Life 54 This setting controls the seasonal changes in rainfall (which is included Click or click and drag in the Edit Window to place mutagens. live to old age and live to medium age. Click and hold on the down-arrow As you design or modify an animal in this window, the Energy Requirement Bar can set a few other options. Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Number Populated Warning: If you edit any of the plants and animals that come with map. This is single-level display, and can be viewed along with one of the * Choose either the left adult or the left child icon and click on it. of the mutagen. You may want to temporarily turn off the life layer when not make the soil better. If you expose previously underwater soil, it This tool in SimLife not only changes the genetic code of a whole population The Phenotype Window is explained in detail below. separated from each other by a single Tab. Lines are separated by a The Evergreen button is a yes/no toggle that control whether or not the Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Daily Statistics GAME DATA FILE This control lets you put limits on the number of plants that can exist in (1992): 122-136. value for this gene. Instead of using the height of the bar to represent the SOUNDS of the world and the number of plants and animals in it, this file MATING DIFFERENCE Variables Window 40, 182-183 were caught and eaten by the Local Species. of these pictures represents at least two genetic factors. To change the NUMBER Altitude shows the height of the land in the world. It is a multi-level on. the colored bars drift away from the Prototype, they represent the change in Sprout Season 149 There are an unlimited number of experiments you can design and run with Toxin - A poisonous substance that is a specific product of the metabolic Sprout Temperature 149 DISPLAY AREA will indicate how much energy your animal will require to survive all the organisms; the genetic makeup and phenomena of an organism, type, Part of the reason for using this type of display is because it looks very button to reveal a submenu of the choices, slide the cursor to your choice and Simulation Menu, there are two basic ways to make the simulation run faster: developmental stages. LIFE Vision 145 plant and animal species, and designing and creating new ones. It can be the Map Window Control Panel, and through the Goodies submenu in the else but look for food. release the mouse button. SEEDS Fire 97 [PAGE: 155] Over on the right side of the window is the Help button. Click and hold on Dealing with graphics and redrawing the screen is very processor-intensive. Ways to limit redraws are: Click here to remove the Selected Species from the current world. Deleting a bar, then there are no representatives of that species in the ecosystem at the maximum. The maximum is the total number of cells in the world, and depends on reached either through the Biology Lab item in the Windows Menu or through the Click this button to activate Run Control and make it pause after a number of Moisture 120 * Limit the number of windows you have open at a time. THE ON-SCREEN TUTORIAL The bottom card has eight possible pictures, which represent three factors, courting a mate that could otherwise be used to find food or directly displayed to the right of its bar charts. plant is an evergreen. If you hold down the Option key (or the Control key if your keyboard has no Continous Gene Display - Monochrome 162 The Max slider adjusts the maximum food the animal can store in its body. A individual organisms. They become an interrelated food web, a community, an Copy Icon 50, 85 You'll have better luck with this one if you use a fairly large world. Animal Limits 179 that is different for each organism and that changes throughout its life, off-and the continuous genes as analog with a continuous range of possible to the second (edit) level by double clicking on an organisms icon in the Windows Menu 94 temperature data to the new landform. Change Prototype Genome to Match Picture The Climate Lab lets you make changes to the climate of the current world. It organisms use the next usually lower member as a food source. The default display is a graph of all causes of death for the previous five You can choose up to eight organisms and set whether they attract or repel this button to see a brief explanation of what this window does and how it This is the number of organisms to be added or deleted. If you have chosen All button in the Map Window Control Panel does. * Click on the color in the pallette you want to draw with. Populate... opens the Populate Window so you can add plants or animals to the alive, or if you put one organism into its own species with the Speciate features and capabilities you are programming into it. simulation. It can display 720 graphs in either of two time scales. Four mutation. * Keep the Edit Window small. ASEX 0000.001.000 0.12.01.005 0.12.01.005 Type Year.Day.Tic OrgotID MothersID Genetic Data [PAGE: 160] Variables Window. The Danger slider sets the water storage level for when the animal does ecosystem. A healthy long-lasting ecosystem will have plants and animals in It can be opened from the Windows Menu (it's in the Census submenu) or through Deaths Graph 154 get an overview of the status of your ecosystem, garner information on the This section of the Genome Window consists of four slider controls that deal NEVER MIND a color key will appear near the middle of the Map Window Control Panel to icon. From the second level you can open the Genome Window and inspect or the simulation to run before pausing. Status is a one-line description of the current ecosystem. It might point Moisture shows the amount of moisture in the world. It is a multi-level displayed in this section of this window. Run Control... 91 DELE 0000.000.000 1.00.01.030 `SpeciesName' has been deleted. Click this button to transform the Subject into another species. You can and ocean viscosties. If you use your imagination with these settings you can The Danger slider sets the food storage level for when the animal does nothing The farther to the right this bar is, the more energy the animal needs to Title Bar. It will go away if you click in the Close Box. Keep in mind: Altitude 120 [PAGE: 175] Avoid 144 many diverse niches. Help SimLife, you should save them under different names or in different The Stealth slider controls the animal's ability to move silently and avoid Langton, Christopher G., ed. - Artificial Life: A Proceedings Volume in the button to open a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your Altitude Button 37 folders or directories than the originals so you can go back to the other preexisting types and that the distinguishable differences HEALTH COSTS ONE SPECIES Tiny to Low to Medium to High to Huge. Each value is twice the previous Play Music 87 Press this button to display the food web centered around the Local Species. Menu. Adaptive Behavior - Responses - often genetically controlled - of an * Click or click and drag in the drawing area. [PAGE: 129] ALL ANIMALS Most sounds in SimLife happen in response to your actions, but there aren't interested in water-dwelling creatures, making small lakes leaves you is all the way to the left, then the animal will hunt and eat alone, like the [PAGE: 158] days. Click on any organism to bring up the Genome Window. bulid one of your own. predators. increase the population. in asexual species. Anywhere 124 types of organisms and appreciates them both for what they are. the screen by clicking and dragging the Title Bar. The window will go away if KILL OFF whateverly to match its new genetic code. If you add the ability to fly to the different methods of movement require differing amounts of energy: swimming Sometimes colonists bring animals from their old homes to new lands. Click this button to leave the Genome Window without changes taking place. [PAGE: 164] Moisture Tool 108 WORLD BUILDING OPTIONS [PAGE: 146] If you click on the Who's Eating Me? button, you will see a display of all the Foraging - A browsing, grazing or wandering search for food or provisions. Age (% of Max) - displays the changes in how long the subject lives as a the current world in the current experiment or scenario; it does not remove can be reached through the Climate Lab iten in the Windows Menu or through saved games on one of the disks that show some of these uses (or This window shows the predator/prey relationships between different organisms right side corresponds with the highest value. The bars appear at different Filter food concentrates in shallow water and on shorelines, where it can locations-different values-and show what percentage of the population has that [PAGE: 201] Click this button when you are happy with all the settings. All your changes GENE POOL DIVERSITY The Map Window Display Area is the actual map of your world. Because of the The Map Window can be opened or activated by selecting Map in the Windows * Turn off Auto Tracking in the Goodies submenu of the Simulation Menu. that did not occur in the parents. There are also two buttons that open the related Populate and World Design get nutrients from the nearby soil yet still receive sunlight. Since it HELP choose the new species in the New Species box below. ecology score will not be available. variations for each setting. lower-left corner is zero population for both species. The number of living As you "flip" through the flash cards, a text description of the organism will Each time a species is deleted, the event is reported. prey is shown at the lower-right. some infants can drown. The Local Species will appear in the middle. Any and all predators will be Artificial Life 6 Edit Button 129 To edit the genes of an individual organism, you will have to select the Temperature shows the air temperature in the world. It is a multi-level Each time a plant or animal is manually killed, the death is reported. Mortality 95 receive a caustic message proving that programmers can be just as big of Design an experiment to simulate the destruction done by pigs in Hawaii, and FOOD SOURCES action and danger levels are set in the animal's genome. individual, group or species to the environment that aid value, i.e., Low is twice as high as Tiny, Medium is twice as high as Low, Append to Existing File OTHER WORLDS ecological experimenter. It visually shows the diversity of life in your for the animal being edited. Animals can be made capable of eating more than value for the particular gene. The higher the bar, the higher the percentage QUICK-START GUIDE INSTALLATION The flash cards for plants are arranged vertically. Simulation Menu will free up the processor a little, and will increase speed You can also change the day and year length in the Laws of Physics Window, To select the information to be displayed, click and hold on the lower presence or absence of nectar and the four seed types (sticky, dropping, * Click on another icon. your machine. The game will load automatically. Ecology - A branch of science concerned with the interrelationship of POPULATION WINDOW [PAGE: 186] This is the one place in SimLife when you can inspect and modify the genes Auto Scroll 87 Status 187 species will be added. Right Amiga Key + O = Open Game... release the mouse button. Gender: Asexual, Male, Female, Both predators with bar graphs showing how many of the Local Species they have STD 96 % of Biomass Graph 154 the middle of the Map Window Control Panel. Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID Number Killed at any one time. The setting is for all living species combined. The more Seeds is a pull-down menu with four choices for types of seeds your plant Species. audience.) The possible choices of information to display are: DAY LENGTH VARIATION Stealth 145 etc. GESTATION World Design Window 32, 62, 125-127 Each display is a bar graph, with low on the left, high on the right. You Below the arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on this button to see a SELECT LEVEL Ecosystem - The sum total of physical features and organisms occuring in a Seeds: Sticky, Dropping, Drifting, Fruit Here you select an existing species to edit, copy, delete or save. You can simulation run any faster. are due to modifications in successive generations. current time. Mountains 126 RAINFALL VARIATION eaten. Above the display area is a color key that lets you know which of the data World Average Moisture 125 % GENES FROM FATHER Windows. This food will feed any animal an unlimited supply of whatever it needs to under the Humidity heading in the graphis and in most other windows). Once this window is open, you can change the two species being graphed to any The Genome Window is explained in detail below. To adjust the number, click or click and hold on the up or down arrows, or Biology Lab, Edit Lab 131-139 This section of the Genome Window consists of four sliders and one pull-down at the prototype genome for the whole species. When you enter from the Edit NO COPY PROTECTION out a problem or need, mention something nice, give you useful information and choose or create new icons for new creatures. 1. Insert the SimLife Disk 1 into your internal disk drive. Barriers 33, 121, 126 dropping, sticky, etc.) and energy-saving strategies (evergreen vs. deciduous) You can get on-screen help by clicking and holding on the control names. submenu) or through the Census button on the Dashboard. Continous Genes 72, 159, 161 THE WORLD BUILDING PROCESS Movement Costs 176 [PAGE: 171] display, and cannot be displayed at the same time as any other multi-level The History Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging the Right Amiga Key + K = Sound on/off There is also a Clear button. Use this to completely clear an icon if you want Beginner 89 mouse button. Mutagen Tool 116 SAVE of movement (walk, climb, swim or fly) and preferred environment (ocean, There are 23 different continuous genes that can be displayed for animals and point of the X and Y axes. The number of animals at each intersection (Z axis) selecting the information, that information will be selected for all four two species currently loaded into the simulation. Click and hold on the down Show Variables allows you to inspec the simulation variables of any father. The rest of the genes come from the mother. This slider has no effect [PAGE: 152] SimLife is not copy protected. This is an experiment and a big leap 2. Reset you Amiga. Plants don't move, so their strategies are a little different. Different sizes GENE SELECTION anything. 3. Follow the on screen instructions choosing graphical selectors. (The last sentence was a selected selection for our select Moisture includes both humidity in the air and precipitation, and changes Difficulty Submenu 89 requirements and install destination (either floppy or hard disk), display, and cannot be displayed at the same time as any other multi-level SEED-EATERS AND PLANTS individual plant or animal. These variables are the non-genetic information NEW SPECIES [PAGE: 196] display. has stored. to start over. Rating gives you a title that describes your skill. There are 21 ratings instantly grow wings. DATA 0000.001.000 0.00.01.000 See below Food (%) Graph 154 Danger 146, 147 STARTING THE PROGRAM * It will be easier to start with Food Webs that have been proven survivors SELECTED SPECIES Design an experiment where two populations (one on the mainland, one on an After installation (see above), using Workbench open the folder that menu that deal with the animal's reproductive system. whose variables you are inspeciting dies, so it is a good idea to pause the Gender is a pull-down menu with four choices for plants: Male, Female, Both try to come up with a solution for the problem. [PAGE: 142] Click here to save you edited species to disk for later use. A color/shade key to help you interpret altitude will appear near the middle Food Sources toggles on and off the display of any Ultra-Food food sources on original plants and animals on the original disks. Protect your zoo! Use this tool to customize landforms, enlarge or remove lakes and isolate on the Change Me To Species Shown Below button above. The Size slider controls the amount that the animal gains in size during Right Amiga Key + A = Auto Tracking on/off The top card has eight possible pictures, which represent two factors: the Click here to change the Prototype of the organism being edited to match the ranging from Parking Lot Builder to... you'll have to find out for yourself. frequency and spread of genes for any single species at a time, or All Plants Design an experiment to see if, on the whole, seed-eaters do more damage or to play. gestation, which directly relates to how much food/energy the animal needs to displayed to the right of its bar charts. large and fast and strong and has sharp vision and powerful weapons, it will all of which deal with the plant's germination: floating or nonfloating seeds, Along the left side of this section is a list of the continuous genes being [PAGE: 138] Evaluation Window 51, 187 high max setting allows stocking up of energy when it is plentiful, but Each of these lines matches a slider in the Genome Window. For example, the increases the animal's weight and slows it down. Control Key 39, 80, 100 If all the data points are clustered together in a small bunch, then both the Sometimes you might run SimLife with Data Logging, good to plant populations. sprouting temperature (high or low) and sprouting moisture (high or low). graphs can be displayed at a time. the come back to SimLife later. If you want to When building a new world, the simulation follows these steps: and/or edit another. Clicking on the button to the left of each method of movement toggles it on Females (%) Graph 154 current population of that species. GENE Fields for Plants Behavior 143 Biology Lab 43-45, 48, 55, 58-59, 94, 128-139 To the left of the up and down arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on Edit Rectangle 30, 35, 118 The Action slider sets the food storage level that provokes the animal to groups of land animals. You can also make islands and moats, and spell your of the Map Window Control Panel. Biology Lab, Select Level 129-131 Census Button 42, 43 R continue Data Logging where you left off, and have The Food tool lets you place or remove Ultra-Food sources anywhere you want. [PAGE: 154] Click and hold on the Help button to see an on-screen reminder of what each before, use the same file name and check this box. Local Species) will appear along the right (if any-plants have no prey). day, and tick of the event being reported. On most lines, the next field life span gene. [PAGE: 165] You can choose what data to save to disk by in a group. Discrete Genes 72, 159-160 start looking for food. is either a species or an Orgot (an individual SimLife Organism) Biology Lab Buttons 43, 138 T No Graph - displays nothing for this Graph Selector. Q - S * Different types of worlds can be designed in the Laws of Physics Window. Mutagens 32, 121, 126 ecosystem and gives you a numerical score, a personal rating and a status Population - displays the changes in the subject's population. Window you will be looking at the genome for the individual that you clicked issues. These issues are: Toxins, Plague, Old Age, Crowding and Battle. Each including health, age, height, weight, etc. that animal's life span gene from the Genome Window. Notice how the bar's and activities of a living organism and is usually very unstable, notably Deaths - displays the changes in the subject's deaths. world with plants and animals. When Show Variables is active, the cursor will appear as a slider control. [PAGE: 134] Mutation 145 Water (%) - displays the changes in the percentage of maximum water the population, not just one organism. Each animal in the population will have a Bowser 42, 93 P layer, of a world without changing anything else. The altitude of a new world affects the climate. (See The World Building GALAPAGOS Animals), there will be a thin pink or black line somewhere in the display. Life toggles on and off the display of plants and animals on the map. This Click on any organism to bring up the Variables Window. The Variables * Barriers over land or water will block walkers, but not flyers. To keep SPECIATE * All species prototypes Library. 1989. The Genome Window both consists of a number of slider controls, on/off is a single-level display, and can be viewed along with one of the multi- represent two factors: the food source (nectar, plants, animals, fruit, filter * The map down the Option key while checking a box, percentage of its maximum possible age. New Animal Button 130 alive even if it lived in a supermarket. As you design or modify an organism, identifier code, which consists of a flag indicating whether this is a plant Build World... opens the World Desing Window so you can create a new world. A animals there are, the slower the simulation runs. Setting a limit keeps complete explanation of the World Design Window can be found below. level displays and any or all of the other single-level displays. or an animal species, the species number and version, and specific organism if When the Use Colors? button is set to "Yes," the continuous genes will be report. If All Plants or All Animals is selected there will be no Prototype lines. will cause herbivores to eat the entire plant and not just graze on the In a long-lasting ecosystem, this graph will show various repeating, ever- % Female 145 WATER percentage, in this display we use color. The key above will show you what These are human-readable messages that report when the data log was started Size (% of Max) - displays the changes in the subject's size as a percentage switches and drop-down menu choices. Designing or modifying organisms at the To change the plant costs, click and hold on the down-arrow button to open a WORLD DESIGN WINDOW The gene pool is the combined genes for a whole population. Each organism in living." Plants need energy for getting food and water, growing and making Play Other Sounds 87 This section of the Genome Window deals with the animal's water stores. The the population will have a value for each gene, but not all of them will have each of the genes does. click on the Save button. All messages that appear in the History window will be recorded to the data The middle card has 20 possible pictures, which represent two factors: method [PAGE: 123] can click on these arrows to cycle forward and backward through all the Census boxes, representing "two descended from one." Click on any organism to open On the Land 124 jungle, plains, mountain or desert). Click on All Animals to see the population display of the animals. The total log as they occur. The right card, the rear of the animal, has six possible pictures, which nothing else but look for water. Click and hold on the Help button to see on-screen help for this window. represent two factors: gestation size and time (small, medium or large) and This window tracks and lists the important historical events that have litter size (1-2 or 4-8). This slider sets the genetic spread-the amount of variance in the genes-of a Open Game 84 messing up the experiment, have the island as far from the mainland as of its maximum possible size. [PAGE: 173] This is a record of each plant or animal death. When relevant, numbers will appear along the right side and/or percentages See the Dashboard to find out what colors represent which organisms. The Food Web Window can be moved around the screen by clicking and dragging WATER This file holds the species prototypes for a group of plants. It is created Option Key 39, 80, 100 Phenotype Window 41, 184 species when you add it to the world through the Populate Window or with the from the Biology Lab using the Save All Plants button. Its size is Philosophy of Life 83 Type Year.Day.Tic SpeciesID New Species Pop. The maximum available animals that you can set are: Unlimited, 50, 100, 200, possible, and set the energy requirement for flying so high that an Populate function of the Life Tool in the Edit Window. From then on, genetic Females (%) - displays the changes in the percentage of the subjects that are changing shapes and patterns that point out the chaotic nature of ecosystems. identifier and unique orgot number of the new inhabitant is recorded. If the This slider control sets the limits on how different the genetic code of two Edit Window 35, 63, 104-116 less if their food value is high. Windows. female. will appear along the left side to provide a scale for interpreting the graphs. GENE checkbox is checked, the genetic make-up of the new organism is reported. Perhaps the most important thing to keep in mind when designing an organism is Speciate lets you grab an individual organism from one species and change it brief explanation of what this window does and how it works. Environment- The sum total of physical, chemical and biotic factors (as Keep in mind: ancestry or from older forms. Return to Select Level 60, 138 [PAGE: 125] Plants or All Animals as a group. To select the Local Species whose mortality Play Scenario Button 103 ANIMAL ZOO FILE There are two sections to this window. The top section displays the individual years. The genome only contains the potentials for the animal. There are a number of species are summarised. THE MAIN DISPLAY factors or variables for each individual animal that change with time. These Water toggles on and off the display of all water on the map. This is a [PAGE: 172] variables include current health, weight, age, current food and water storage, Right Amiga Key + S = Save disk. into another species in a number of ways. etc., and can be found in the Variables Window as described below. CREA 0000.000.000 1.00.01.030 `SpeciesName' has been created. Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" which marks the Food Web Window as Display Controls 99 a single-level display, and can be viewed along with one of the multi-level Next to the up and down arrows is the Help button. Click and hold on this and off for the animal being edited. Animals can be made capable of more than the Speciate Window. The Speciate Window is explained in detail below. animal population is displayed to the right of the All Animals button and button to see a brief explanation of what this window does and how it works. Highlight and type in the number of the individual you want to locate. Populate 39, 111 [PAGE: 170] one type of movement, but the more skills and abilities an animal has, the Populate Window 33-34, 67-68, 123-124 identifier and species name. This can be used as a key to look up the name of more energy it requires. If all types of movement are turned off, the animal will just sit in one The World Design Window lets you create new worlds to suit your whims or the BEHAVIOR The Poulatioon Window is a graphic display of the relative populations of all Census submenu) or through the Dashboard Census button. * Seeds that don't sprout take up room that could otherwise be exploited needs of your experiments. It can be reached through the Build World button in a Census Window. a species from its identifier number. work better (or don't) depending on the climate and surrounding animal life. Data Logging... 92 Title Bar and it will go away if you click in the Close Box. Just below the Close Box is a "punch card" that marks the History Window as a Census Window. their behavior by controlling how much time they must spend looking for food and how much time they have for other pastimes, such as looking for a mate. climate, soil, and living things) that act upon on organism or an Build World... 88 D Seeds. Each of these foods can be assigned a value: Tiny, Low, Medium, High, or Huge. Populate... Button 33, 67-68, 122 Rivers and Lakes 126, 181 Save 84 DATA and YEAR Fields Humidity - Degree of wetness, especially atmospheric moisture. open a submenu of all available choices, slide the cursor to your choice, then of these items can be assigned a value: Tiny, Low, Medium, High or Huge. choice, then release the mouse button. SOIL AND CLIMATE CHANGE Window. If it isn't living, you will be returned to the Locate An Individual Simulation time; OrgotID: OrgotID of this orgot's mother; Food Store gene; ANIMAL VARIABLES The Animal Variables Window has three sections. gene; Stealth gene; Birth/Death gene; Movement/food source gene; Reserved gene Bell, William J. - Searching Behavior: The Behavioral Ecology of Finding GENE Fields for Animals Imes, Rick - The Practical Botanist: An Essential Field Guide to Studying, Forage Count increases as an animal looks for food, and resets when food is found. If the count reaches a certain number (depending on the Persistence gene), the animal will try another foraging strategy. PHENOTYPE WINDOW NEVER MIND Classifying, and Collecting Plants. Simon and Schuster, Fireside, 1990. These are the fields recorded for each individual animal. They are the same as Keeton, William T. - Elements of Biological Science. W.W. Norton & Company, Santa Fe Institute Studies in the Sciences of Lem, Stanislaw - The Cyberiad: Fables for the Cybernetic Age. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Minsky, Marvin - The Society of Mind. Simon & Schuster, 1985, 1986. Packer, Craig - "Captives in the Wild." National Geographic, Vol. 181, No. 4 Vonnegut, Kurt - Galapagos. Delacorte Press, 1985. the plant genes above, plus the following additional fields: Wilson, E. O., ed, et al - Biodiversity. National Academy Press, 1986. Right Amiga Key + Q = Quit Build World... Button 32, 61, 122 Copy Button 60, 129 Day Length Variation 151 Delete All Animals 130 Evaporation Rate 149 Evergreen Button 150 Everything 181 Evolution 21 Filter Feeder Food 119 Food Slider 150