+FarmerPotato Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Forwarded from the Silicon Valley Forth Interest Group (SVFIG) mailing list: Quote On 8 April 2020, Conway, who had been struggling with health problems for years, developed a fever from COVID-19. On 11 April 2020, Conway died at age 82. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway There's a tribute on xkcd ... https://xkcd.com/2293/ The Game of Life has been a popular topic in the Forth community: http://www.forth.org/fd/FD-V18N1.pdf http://www.forth.org/svfig/kk/05-2006.html 1 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sid1968 Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 Ruhe in Frieden. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Vorticon Posted April 14, 2020 Share Posted April 14, 2020 He will keep on living inside countless computers across the globe. Nothing is dead which is remembered... 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmartin Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 que en paz descanse 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InfernalKeith Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 What an impact and a life well lived. Rest well, sir. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackbox Posted April 15, 2020 Share Posted April 15, 2020 An assembly code version of Conway's Game of Life, code written by Mark Wills in December 2005. Presented here as a small (19k) zip file, TI Life will run in the emulator PC99 (/PC99w) using the Editor Assembler module - the object code is in the display fixed 80 format. Source code is included together with a small howto text file. Nice, fun programme. Remembering John Conway. For other emulators use Ti99Dir to convert the dsk file in the zip. s tilife.zip 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted April 15, 2020 Author Share Posted April 15, 2020 This is the version of LIFE that I wrote in 1986. I included it on a disk of freeware along with SUPERSAVE. So it probably didn't get seen widely. I modified it today (4/15/20), adding John Conway's name. I also added REDO, BACK, AID keys. I inserted Tursi's LOADCHAR routine for the cartridge version. Finally, I put in an Easter Egg. The ZIP has the objects in TIFILES and sources in plain text. The DSK file has the sources and runnables. It is V9T9 format. https://gitlab.com/FarmerPotato/gameoflife has the whole thing plus a README. This distribution was built with Ralph Benziger's XDT99. GAMEOFLIFE.ZIP GAMEOFLIFE.DSK 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+mizapf Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 In that respect, the XKCD comic (linked above) feels quite poignant. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted April 16, 2020 Share Posted April 16, 2020 Sent from my LM-G820 using Tapatalk 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 What no cartridge .BIN? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, INVISIBLE said: What no cartridge .BIN? For Mark Wills’ ? In my Zip file you’ll find LIFE_C.bin 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega-TI Posted April 17, 2020 Share Posted April 17, 2020 34 minutes ago, FarmerPotato said: For Mark Wills’ ? In my Zip file you’ll find LIFE_C.bin My BAD! My apologies. Time to link it to the repository. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 On 4/17/2020 at 11:14 AM, INVISIBLE said: My BAD! My apologies. Time to link it to the repository. Thanks! Feel free to copy LIFE_C.bin into any binary collection - just link back to this thread for the source code. Or better yet , include the gitlab link. Everywhere Everything is there. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+FarmerPotato Posted April 17, 2020 Author Share Posted April 17, 2020 This was the xkcd cartoon input. I checked that it really does what the cartoon shows -- yep. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuart Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U is rather good ... it includes an implementation of Game of Life running on a computer built from logic gates built using Game of Life ... 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+TheBF Posted December 18, 2021 Share Posted December 18, 2021 15 hours ago, Stuart said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6avJHaC3C2U is rather good ... it includes an implementation of Game of Life running on a computer built from logic gates built using Game of Life ... "A computer is where we put lighting in a rock and taught it how to think" Brilliant! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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