Conway’s Life

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Continuing with my foray into Turbo Pascal 3.01A on the RC2014, here’s a reasonable implementation of John Conway’s ‘Life’ algorithm.

Life running on PuTTY telnet window connected to an RC2014 through the ESP8266 module.
A single generation on a 80×26 grid takes just over a second to calculate and display.

When I was a Computer Science undergraduate in the early 1980s, I heard John Conway talk about his mathematical research at a guest lecture in the Warwick Arts Centre – probably the only such event I attended in my time there.

The latest code for this version of ‘Life’ is in my RC2014 code repository.