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Life

Moby ID: 196516
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Released
August 1979 on TRS-80
Credits
2 people
Publishers
Moby Score
n/a
Collected By
1 players
Genre
Simulation
Perspective
Top-down
Interface
Text parser
Business Model
Commercial
Media Type
Type-in
Input Devices Supported/Optional
Keyboard
Number of Players Supported
1 Player
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See Also
  • Life (1970 on Mainframe)
  • Life (1972 on Mainframe, 1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1974 on Terminal)
  • Life (1975 on Altair 8800, 1976 on Intel 8080, Zilog Z80...)
  • box cover Life (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1978 on TRS-80)
  • Life (1979 on TI Programmable Calculator)
  • Life (1979 on TRS-80)
  • Life (1979 on COSMAC)
  • Life (1980 on COSMAC)
  • box cover Life (1980 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1982 on Philips P2000)
  • box cover Life (1987 on TRS-80 CoCo)
  • box cover Life (1988 on Atari 8-bit)
  • box cover Life (2009 on Xbox 360)
  • box cover Life (2019 on Windows)

Description

Life is a simulation of Conway's Game of Life written in machine language. The player can draw his or her own patterns and watch how they evolve based on the simple rules of Conway's Game of Life.

  • Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
  • Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
  • Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
  • Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

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Credits (TRS-80 version)

Life was invented by
Machine code listing that runs on the TRS-80 by

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  • MobyGames ID: 196516
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Game added by vedder.

Game added January 1, 2023. Last modified April 11, 2023.