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LOCE
Life On CE |
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Ever heard of the game called LIFE?
Well, this is the Windows CE version!
Best of all, it's FREE! |
Live
the Life on CE |
| The Game of Life (a
no-player game, as Conway says) was invented around 1970 by the famous mathematician
Conway, for fun, and turned out much later to be the simplest cellular automaton which can
simulate a universal Turing machine. You start by disposing
some cells (fill the grid squares) on a rectangular grid, and then let the program compute
what happens to them at each generation. The cells are represented in the program by some
red squares each filling one of the grid squares. |
Rules |
The rules for going from
one generation to the next depend just on the immediate neighborhood of each cell: a cell
is adjacent to 8 squares in the grid, which are empty or occupied. Its fate for the next
generation depends just on how many of these adjacent squares are occupied (how many
neighbors the cell has):
 | Death
If an occupied cell has 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, or 8 occupied neighbors, the organism dies (0,
1: of loneliness; 4 through 8: of overcrowding). |
| Survival
If an occupied cell has two or three neighbors, the organism survives to the next
generation. |
| Birth
If an unoccupied cell has three occupied neighbors, it becomes occupied. |
All the above changes are applied simultaneously to compute the next
generation. Some simple configurations whose fate you should think about are: 3 in a line,
4 in a square, five in a line.
When you look at the fate of various initial configurations, you
will notice that most of the time the configuration degenerates to some collection of
still life, after having generated a certain number of gliders. |
DOWNLOAD |
Requires Windows CE
2.0
This version does not have a timeout!
Open Start/Settings/System to check if you need a MIPS or SH version.
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Download PPC
MIPS-version |
for most Palm-size PCs |
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Download PPC
SH-version |
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Installation:
| Download the correct exe to your desktop computer.
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| Copy it to your Palm-size PC into \Windows\Start Menu\Programs
using Windows CE Services.
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To Run:
| Tap the "Start" button on your Palm-size PC, select Programs
and then the LOCE icon.
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Download HPC
MIPS-version |
for Philips, Sharp or NEC
Handheld PCs. |
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Download HPC
SH-version |
for Casio, Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, or LG Electronics Handheld PCs. |
Installation:
| Download the correct exe to your desktop computer.
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| Copy it to your Handheld PC into \Windows\Desktop using Windows CE
Services.
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To Run:
| Double-Tap the LOCE icon on your desktop.
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