Re: A86: Re: game of life

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: Re: game of life
From: Cassady Roop <croop@oregontrail.net>
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 07:11:26 -0700
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I saw this somewhere before.  I think I used these rules when I wrote
Colony.  But I never really found any background info on the whole
idea... what is Life?  Mathematical Biology?

Cassady Roop

David Phillips wrote:
> 
> Nice :)
> 
> Are you using these rules?
> 
> 0 - 1: cell dies
> 2: cell lives
> 3: cell is born (lives if exists)
> 4 - 8: cell dies
> 
> > in case, by some freak chance, anyone cares about this, the absolute
> > fastest a full-screen game of life implementation on the ti-86 could run
> > is about 6.5 frames per second.
> >
> > i've got it down to ~953000 clocks for one screen update, that's ~116
> > clocks per pixel.
> > with a 6mhz clock, that's ~6.3 frames/sec
> >
> > just a few useless statistics!

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