John Conway's Game of Life
| Release: | 5.1 |
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| Date: | 20 Apr 2003 |
| O/S: | All Windows 9x and NT versions (inc. XP, Vista & Windows 7) |
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You can get the latest version of the Game of Life here.
Executable Program (v5.1)
| Download link | Description |
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| life.zip (243Kb) |
Contains a the Game of Life program and help file. See the Install Info tab for details of how to install the program.
MD5 Checksum:
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Source Code (v5.1)
| Download link | Description |
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| life_src.zip (91Kb) |
The main Game of Life source code. Contains the source for
Life.exe, but does not include source for the help file.
MD5 Checksum:
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Delphi 4 is the target compiler, but later compilers should work with some changes to the source. The program has never been checked for Unicode compatibility.
Game of Life was used as a test bed for understanding the 16 bit
Windows interface and there are therefore a lot more options and fancy
presentation code (owner draw controls etc) in the program than you would
normally expect for a program of this size. This can make the actual game
engine hard to track down. For those of you who are looking, the meat of the
game code is in Calc.pas while Rule.pas is also
important.
Library Code
In order to compile Game of Life some additional DelphiDabbler library components are required. These components are not included with the main source code but can be downloaded below.
| Download link | Description |
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| dd-verinfo.zip (64Kb) |
Source code for the version information component.
MD5 Checksum:
2bb3ad97c50c695a4cd4cfeb383c0f04
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| dd-aboutbox.zip (40Kb) |
Source code for the about box component.
MD5 Checksum:
45a0d5a81f1c774089d8c6398cd5886f
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