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  • What about Win32s? Then the same binary can run on Windows 3.1 and Windows 11.
    by Dwedit
  • People do crazy stuff in GoL.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NDAZ5g4EuU

    by HackerThemAll
  • Microsoft QuickC came with LIFE.C as a sample program. For DOS, although it would obviously run under Windows.
    by trollbridge
  • 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?
    by baruz
  • 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
    by imp
  • 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.
    by DrHungers
  • 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.

    by vardump
  • 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....

    by bluedino

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