NAME

life − The Game of LIFE (a program by David I Bell)

SYNOPSIS

/usr/games/life

DESCRIPTION

This program plays the game of life on a practically infinite board by using sparse matrices. 

To terminate a game, type ‘:quit’; for help type ‘:help’. 

The directions for movement are like in rogue:

h− move left
l− move right
k− move up
j− move down

The simplest commands for changing an object are:

o− creates a live cell and moves the cursor to the right.
x− creates a dead cell and moves the cursor to the right.
t− toggles the current cell from dead to alive, or from alive to dead.

Type ‘g’ to compute the next generation and ‘G’ to compute infinite generations. 

For a full description and instructions for play see /usr/games/lib/life/life.doc

FILES

/usr/games/lib/lifepattern files

AUTHOR

David I. Bell

7th Edition  —  Revision 1.2 of 08/11/90