Life32 by Johan Bontes Conway's Game of Life freeware for Windows 95/98/NT

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Features: 1 million x 1 million universe. Fastest Windows Life player; user-definable speed. Supports all popular Life file formats: Life 1.05/1.06, RLE, Xlife 2.0, dbLife. Use of Microsoft DirectDraw to accelerate drawing, with seamless non-DirectDraw support (albeit that the latter is a lot slower). Variable rate frame dropping increases the speed further at the cost of smooth animation. Take a "snapshot" and revert to it in one keystroke. Advanced snapshot list maintenance. Skip to... option lets you skip to any generation fast. For skipping backward, Life32 skips forward from the preceding snapshot. User-definable rules, using checkboxes, text (23/3, etc.), or a list of known interesting rules with descriptions. Advanced editing features: cut and paste, drag and drop, etc. Cut and paste to and from text editors - good for e-mailing patterns. Zoom from 10 pixels per cell down to 1/32 sub-pixel. Zoom cursor for selective zooming. Zoom to fit using 'z' key. Scrollbars and keyboard shortcuts for moving around the universe easily; hand cursor for scrolling in all directions; Move to... window lets you jump to anywhere in the universe, or the edges of the pattern, or the center of the pattern. Keeps track of pattern descriptions: shows them to you in the "Open" window before you open a pattern, allows you to change them in Settings or Save As, and view them with one click. Extensive help. THE OFFICIAL LIFE32 SITE IS http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/Life32/ Here are some pattern collections for use with Life32: Alan Hensel's LifeP.zip collection. David Bell's huge dblifelib-2.tgz collection of patterns for various evolution rules. Dieter Leithner's collection Guns.zip of the smallest glider guns with period > 1000.