I did this one too. In fact it was the first thing I did with Darkbasic Pro after buying it. I haven't programmed anything for over ten years and the last language I used was pascal and the bare surface of C.
The "Game" was written by John Conway, a mathematician, and it is supposed to represent a sort of survival of cells. Actually it's a good represntation of how simple causes can have large results seemingly independent of the cause. Sort of an analogy of life. That's why it's often called Conway's game of Life.
Rules:
Isolated cells (one neighbor or less) die of loneliness, and crowded cells (4 or more neighbors) die of overcrowding. A blank space with three neighbors spawns a new cell.
I attached my code....some of it shows that I was at an early stage of learning this software, so please excuse blatant crap code. >>RETURN<< key resets it.
Oh..I also did a 3D version that you can fly through while it's going and the problem is they never die! hehe...not really a problem...
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