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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 19 May 2014 11:27:08PM 1 point [-]

conveys game of life

I assume you mean Conway's game of life.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 20 May 2014 08:26:55AM 1 point [-]

Yes of course. That and we tried variations of the rule-set. We also discovered the flyer.

It is interesting what can come out of this seed. When I later had an Atari I wrote an optimized simulator in assembly which aggregated over multiple cells and I even tried to use the blitter reducing the number of clock cycles per cell as far as I could. This seed become a part of the mosaic of concepts that sits behind understanding complex processes now.