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by winlife32
July 8th, 2010, 4:55 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What I'd like to see in Golly
Replies: 71
Views: 55691

Re: What I'd like to see in Golly

Doesn't Winlife32 have difficulty with objects made of seperate islands
Indeed it does. It would be possible, given an unstable island, to try it in combination with other nearby islands and see if that makes a stable or oscillating object, but I never got round to trying anything like that. (I ...
by winlife32
July 6th, 2010, 10:47 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What I'd like to see in Golly
Replies: 71
Views: 55691

Re: What I'd like to see in Golly

I think it would be cool to have a Census function, like WinLife32 has
If anyone wants to undertake writing a script to do this, I'd be happy to make winlife32's source code available. I just don't have the time do it myself these days.
by winlife32
June 26th, 2010, 9:38 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Census Program Idea
Replies: 53
Views: 37639

Re: Census Program Idea

Another worry I have with that is that it seems to be quite Life-specific (part of the algorithm works by checking know spaceships)
A bit late, but I only just discovered this forum... that's not really true. It needs to have the spaceships in the currently open library, but patterns in a library ...
by winlife32
June 26th, 2010, 9:33 pm
Forum: Website Discussion
Topic: Some suggestions
Replies: 37
Views: 34920

Re: Some suggestions

The Winlife32 bug that stopped the display working properly on Vista and Windows 7 is now fixed - download a new version from www.winlife32.com to get the fix.