| Posted By
Luca
on 2013-11-17
12:20:50
 |  Game Of A Xlife-time
 In view of a forthcoming version 2 of it, we've decided to hold the announcement about this program, which have just been commented in a known thread in the forum. And now, V2 of Xlife has come!
Xlife is by far the best implementation of the Game of life on every 8bit machine. Based on the experience achieved with the previous Life V1.01, Vladimir "Litwr" Lidovski has coded one that there's no other like it. It offers an impressive list of features, considering so many variables in order to satisfy even the most demanding user.
The basic rules of the game can be modified completely. You can set your initial pattern in a comfortable way, let it evolve (even with a 'blind' faster mode), stop it, change it on fly, reprise it, do it step by step. There's a random pattern option with adjustable ratio. The pseudocolor mode is a real joy for the eyes, and perfectly highlights the population's behaviour. A zoom option allows to spy even the minimal cells'communities locally evolving.
Patterns can be loaded and saved in any moment, even merging'em with the population currently on screen. Aside of the available source codes, from the official XLife 8bit version page you can download a gigantic pack of 2396 preset patterns, which should really satisfy any presumable need.
The V2 improves the first version, and adds a fully explicative instructions file, and a SEQ files reader in order to immediately check any single record.
Try the Xlife experience right now!
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Posted By
SVS
on 2013-11-17
12:20:50
 | Re: Game Of A Xlife-time
Surely it is the best scientific program for Plus/4 and for 8 bits machines.
This, pals, is not a game. You can set, check and control a synthetic form of life!
It is the evidence that for a great SW it is not necessary a big big computer. Just a bit of genius like our Litwr has.
Thank you!
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Posted By
Litwr
on 2013-11-18
23:44:06
| Re: Game Of A Xlife-time
I want to think that this is a piece of new art. Something like old picture in museum.
It is too slow for the modern science. I made several benchmarks with Xlife. They are the calculations of 10000 generations for the same pattern - they produce the identical result patterns on the different platforms.
AMD 3.2 GHz - 0.054 s
Celeron 766MHz - 0.444 s
Raspberry Pi 900MHz - 0.821 s
Commodore +4 1.7MHz - 1756.53 s
[to SVS] Thank you but it was a bit crazy activity to make a program which will be used only by several men... 
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