The Game of Life

The Game of Life is a cellular automaton, invented by John Conway. You can find more information here:

• Game of Life applet (see the Game of Life in action).
• Game of Life manual (information about the program).

The Download

The Game of Life is freeware. Download it here:

	Windows	GameOfLife-1.5-installer.exe (152 kB) Installs the program on your Windows system. Windows 7 users should also download msvcr71.dll and move it to Windows/System32 on Windows 7 32-bits or Windows/SysWOW64 on Windows 7 64-bits.
	Mac OS X	GameOfLife.jar (55 kB) Right click the file and select Open.
	Linux (and other operating systems)	GameOfLife.jar (55 kB) Double click or type "java -jar GameOfLife.jar" to start the program.

The Screen Shots

• See the screen shots of the Game of Life running on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

The Java Platform

The program is written in Java. Download Java if your machine doesn't have it.

The Source Code

• Programmers might be interested in the Java source code.

Life is a bit - Edwin Martin <edwin@bitstorm.org>