Life

Moby ID: 110506

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Released

September 1975 on Altair 8800

Credits

4 people

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Publishers

Moby Score: n/a
Collected By: 1 players

Genre: Simulation
Perspective: Top-down
Visual: Fixed / flip-screen
Pacing: Meditative / Zen

Altair 8800 Specs

Media Type: Type-in
Number of Offline Players: 1 Player

See Also

Life (1970 on Mainframe)
Life (1972 on Mainframe, 1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Life (1974 on Terminal)
Life (1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Life (1978 on TRS-80)
Life (1979 on TI Programmable Calculator)
Life (1979 on TRS-80)
Life (1979 on TRS-80)
Life (1979 on COSMAC)
Life (1980 on Commodore PET/CBM)
Life (1982 on Philips P2000)
Life (1987 on TRS-80 CoCo)
Life (1988 on Atari 8-bit)
Life (2009 on Xbox 360)
Life (2019 on Windows)

Description

Life is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life for the Altair 8800. The player can draw patterns and watch how they evolve based on the simple rules of Conway's Game of Life.

Any live cell with fewer than two live neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
Any live cell with two or three live neighbours lives on to the next generation.
Any live cell with more than three live neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
Any dead cell with exactly three live neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.

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Game of Life versions

Credits (Altair 8800 version)

4 People

Game of Life by	John Horton Conway
First details published by	Scientific American
LIFE on the Altair by	Adolph P. Stumpf
ALTAIR BASIC version	Harold Corbin

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Game added by vedder.

Game added June 23, 2018. Last modified March 9, 2023.