Acornsoft Life

Acornsoft Life is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life. The player draws patterns by moving a cursor over the screen and upon pressing the return key the patterns will start to evolve based on three rules:

• If an empty square is surrounded by exactly three organisms a new one is born.
• If an organism is surrounded by four or more organisms it dies of overcrowding.
• If an organism has less that one neighbour it dies of loneliness.

There are seven predefined pattern that the player can add in any orientation to any position of the screen:

• Glider which moves diagonally
• Small spaceship which moves horizontally or vertically
• Flying machine which moves horizontally or vertically
• Glider gun which fire out gliders
• Queen bee which is an oscillating shape
• 15 cycle which is an oscillator with a period of 15
• Eater which eats various small blocks of life