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Life

Moby ID: 110506
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Released
September 1975 on Altair 8800
Credits
4 people
Releases by Date (by platform)
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
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See Also
  • Life (1970 on Mainframe)
  • Life (1972 on Mainframe, 1978 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1974 on Terminal)
  • box cover 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)
  • box cover Life (1980 on Commodore PET/CBM)
  • Life (1982 on Philips P2000)
  • box cover Life (1987 on TRS-80 CoCo)
  • box cover Life (1988 on Atari 8-bit)
  • box cover Life (2009 on Xbox 360)
  • box cover 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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Credits (Altair 8800 version)

4 People

Game of Life by
First details published by
  • Scientific American
LIFE on the Altair by
ALTAIR BASIC version

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Game added by vedder.

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