An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later

bluedino

It seemed like there were numerous versions of this, but LifeGenesis from Microsoft entertainment Pack was the one I remember playing the most https://games.zerker.ca/GameDetails/LifeGenesis_Windows%203....

imp

Man, that reminds me that as a kid I coded the game of life into Excel with a bunch of nested IF statements. It was a small field, but still a lot of fun

trollbridge

Microsoft QuickC came with LIFE.C as a sample program. For DOS, although it would obviously run under Windows.

baruz

I am not too familiar with Windows development in the 16-bit era, so I do not understand what Raiter means when he writes that he “de-Petzoldized” the code. I thought Petzold’s work on documenting the Windows API was foundational. Was it the style?

DrHungers

Has anyone ever seen a version of the game of life that's actually a playable "game" - that's fun and not just an interesting simulation? I would love to try it.

vardump

Game of Life was everywhere in the eighties. Numerous computer magazine articles and type-ins were published. There was an implementation of it for practically everything. I once programmed Game of Life for an Amiga bootblock. During the late eighties and early nineties, writing small bootblock intros was a popular hobby. Bootblock is also where a lot of viruses lived.

Dwedit

What about Win32s? Then the same binary can run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 11.