kjones@talos.uu.net (Kyle Jones) (02/02/90)
Alex Feldman writes: > Life mode and life don't work properly on my machine, a 3B2-600 running > V.3.1.1 and with GNUemacs 18.54.2 (I think). Deaths occur, but no > births... which makes for a pretty uninteresting game. Is there a > patch for this extant? This is odd. I'd like to get confirmation of this bug from someone else running Emacs under System V Release 3, or just System V in general. Life runs fine on the BSD systems I use. > What would be better, in fact, is a version of life where the user > could pick the starting configuration, and blink it along by hand, so > there would be plenty of time to study each generation. I seem to > remember CCA emacs had a mode like that. Has anyone built a .el file > which will do this that I could plug in to GNUemacs? I'll consider adding it, but don't hold your breath waiting for it. GNU Emacs really isn't the tool for analyzing what's happening in the Life simulation. You're supposed to just look at the blinkin' lights... :-)