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to: ARCADEAGE
from: SHAUN BEBBINGTON
date: 2018-04-30 01:38:00
subject: Re: PET Colonies, based u

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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