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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: LIFE
Message-ID: <1990Jan23.231923.16781@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 23 Jan 90 23:19:23 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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Remember blitter life?  For those with a 68020/68030, I've got a new version
that literally blows the old version away (without using the blitter.)  The
thing is, it's *too* fast, and almost all of the time is spent just updating
the screen.

So, my question is, does anyone out there play with LIFE?  If so, what type
of playground would you like?  I've run a 1024x8192 board to watch the
puffer train . . . any recommendations appreciated.

To get more speed, I've got options to only display every third or every
fifth generation . . .

To give you an idea of the speed, on a 2630, the entire 1100 generation
history of the r pentimino takes less than three seconds . . .

-tom