Conway’s game of life

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Turbo46 Guru Joined: 24/12/2017 Location: Australia Posts: 1619	Posted: 03:36am 25 Apr 2020       Conway’s game of life has always fascinated me so when I saw the recent link to a LED display running it I decided to have a go and write it for MMBasic DOS with a view to perhaps doing a CMM version. That went well enough and it runs well and very fast on the PC.  So I decided to convert it to the Micromite with TeraTerm. I was surprised how slow it was on the Micromite. With the DOS version there is a 300mS PAUSE instruction in the program between updates but with the Micromite that blew out to over 3 seconds with the pause removed! With a fair bit of tweaking and MMEdit’s crunch on load it’s working a lot better but limited a bit by the serial link to TeraTerm. The un-tweaked DOS version is more watchable. I’ll include them here if anyone wants to play and maybe tell me how to speed the Micromite version up a bit. original MMBasic DOS version Life03.zip Micromite with TeraTerm version LifeT01.zip Edit: I forgot to say: MMEdit's crunch on load helped too. Bill Edited 2020-04-25 15:42 by Turbo46 Keep safe. Live long and prosper.