Pocket Life

Play a classic game of life on your palm.

Pocket Life ver 0.4 - Conway's life game in your shirt pocket

Features

In this release, you can:

- import life patterns from 'Life' category in Memo Pad.

- go, stop, step forward, step backward, go until, and reset.

- scroll by tapping the edge of the life display area.

- application itself consumes only 9k of your precious Pilot memory.

(but life patterns may eat up...)

and you can't:

- edit life patterns: import *.life files, or type in Memo Pad.

- magnify life patterns: use TealMagnify!

- preserve life patterns when you switch to another application,

including various Launcher applications.

- no online documentation, etc...

Revision History

ver 0.4 (1999/08/31)

- improve performance and decrease flicker.

- extend the universe from 8192 x 8192 to 32768 x 32768.

- add fast forward and fast backward buttons.

- add `Out of...' dialog and fix a nasty bug which merely happen.

- add `Loop Detected' dialog, and detect gliders flying away.

(e.g. r-pentomino stops with `Period: 2 (from 1103), with 6 glider(s)').

ver 0.3 (1999/08/23)

- compatible with Palm IIIx/V (maybe...).

- support step backward command without losing performance.

- support go until command with time option.

ver 0.2 (1998/07/08)

- compiled with prc-tools 0.5.0.

- increase the maximum number of life cells, especially on Pilot

1000, 5000, and PalmPilot Personal.

- support page up and page down keys in load dialog.

ver 0.1 (1997/09/12)

- initial release

See also

Newest release of this software may be found at:

http://www.sra.co.jp/people/hoshi/palmos/pocket-life.html

You can learn about the life game at:

http://www.reed.edu/~jwalton/gameoflife.html

You can find a lot of interesting life patterns at:

http://www.cs.jhu.edu/~callahan/lifepage.html

Hoshi Takanori ([email protected], http://www.sra.co.jp/people/hoshi/)