April 23rd, 2007 by Keith
Golly Game of Life 1.2
Posted in Fun Stuff, Linux, Mac OS, Site News, Windows
Enjoy this open source, cross-platform Game of Life simulator, developed by Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki, Golly 1.2. It is able to run in Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. The idea is to develop a world-class Life simulator for users.
Features
- * Unbounded universe (limited only by memory).
- * Fast, memory-efficient conventional algorithm.
- * Super fast hashlife algorithm for highly regular patterns.
- * Responsive even while generating or garbage collecting.
- * Reads RLE, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and macrocell formats.
- * Can also read common graphic formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF.
- * Includes a state-of-the-art pattern collection.
- * Supports other Life-like rules and Wolfram’s 1D rules.
- * Can paste in patterns from the clipboard.
- * Auto fit option keeps patterns sized to the window.
- * Full screen option (no menu/status/tool/scroll bars).
- * Supports multiple layers, including cloned layers.
- * Includes HTML-based help with an integrated Life Lexicon.
- * Scriptable via Python.
- * Runs on Windows, Mac OS X (Universal) and Linux (GTK+/X11).
Source and binary distributions are available. Have Fun playing Game of Life, Golly!
Download Link
Golly 1.2