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to: ArcadeAge
from: Shaun Bebbington
date: 2018-04-30 01:38:04
subject: Re: PET Colonies, based upon Conway`s Game of Life

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.

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