Login
LOGIN or NIkhil's Game Of Life, is my very own Conway's Game of Life simulator. Written in C++ using SDL. I wrote it mainly to learn SDL and because I truely enjoy life. Currently it only runs on Linux. Read the README file in the package for instructions on installation and usage. If you are an SDL programmer on windows I would appreciate if you could create a windows executable and send it to me.
Features
Generation count in the titlebar On the fly change in generation delay
It follows original Life rules and there is no support for reading or writing Life files.
Download
Source: http://22bits.exofire.net/downloads/login.tar.gz
Windows executable: http://22bits.exofire.net/downloads/login-win32.zip
Installation
Make sure you have the SDL development package for your distribution installed. Extract the archive to a suitable location, change to the login directory and run
make ./login
To install it system-wide do
su -c 'make install'
This will create a executable called login_game (so it doesn't conflict with login) in /usr/bin
Usage
To run login see above. You can also pass one argument to login, a number specifying the original delay in milliseconds.
LOGIN runs in 2 modes. One is when the program is running but the game is not. In this state you can do the following.
- Use the mouse to activate/deactivate cells
- Press 'r' to generate a random fill
- Press 'c' to clear and reset the game
- Press 's' to start the game.
When the game is running you can only do two things
- Press 's' to stop it again
- Press '-' to increase the speed by 10ms (you cannot go faster than 10ms per generation)
- Press '+' to decrease the speed by 10ms (there is no limit to how slow you can go)
Note that + and - unfortunately do not work continuosly on holding them. The reason they seem contradictory is that well they control the delay. So '+' increases the delay and decreases the speed :)