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|    Shaun Bebbington to ArcadeAge    |
|    Re: PET Colonies, based upon Conway's Ga    |
|    30 Apr 18 01:38:04    |
      From: shaun@square-circle.co.uk              On Friday, 27 April 2018 21:09:57 UTC+1, ArcadeAge wrote:       > Do you have any additional information on Space Colony?              Yes.              > I found a program by Tim Hartnell called Evolution, published in his       "Symphony for a Melancholy Computer", and -- according to Hartnell --       plagiarized by someone called R W Moore in Vic Computing 04/1982.       >        > I wrote a Game of Life BASIC program for the Commodore 64 a few years ago,       but it was painfully slow. I developed some ideas for reducing the number of       memory accesses and did plan to rewrite it in assembly language, but that       never materialized. I        assume that entire volumes on Game of Life implementations were published at       the time when it was new.       >        > Chris              Regards,              Shaun.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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