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From: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: LIFE3.LZH
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.172243.16780@oz.plymouth.edu>
Date: 22 Apr 91 17:22:43 GMT
Reply-To: pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu (Technoid)
Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, N.H.
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Hello,

	I just got a hold of LIFE3.LZH from atari.archive and was immediately
impressed by the editing allowed in the universe. It is easy to use, the left
button creates a cell, the right kill a cell. But when I went to load
pre-created universes which were lzhed within the LIFE3.LZH, the program
responded that the files were too small to be universe files, WHAT? These were
included as universes. Then I tried to load pre-created patterns such as
glider-guns and chesire cat ( the classics ) and they also didn't work. The
program claimed to be loading them but nothing was displayed. There is a
feature in the menu to show pattern file information. I check out chesire cat
with this, and it claimed the file to be in ABSOLUTE format. I went out to
GEM and checked it, it was in PICTURE format. This program has a lot of
problems, you can't do half the stuff it says it can do. Who ever wrote it,
you have a good idea but an obviously lacking implementation, if it were
fixed it would be an excellent version of LIFE, but as it stands, it isn't
too impressive.

Stephan

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  pyr579@oz.plymouth.edu      Stephan R. Cleaves
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