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authorB. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>2018-12-11 05:57:56 -0500
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2018-12-15 20:44:28 +0700
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games/golly: Updated for version 3.2, new maintainer.
Signed-off-by: B. Watson <yalhcru@gmail.com>
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-Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for
+golly (Game of Life simulator)
+
+Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for
exploring Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata.
Golly's key features:
-- Supports bounded and unbounded universes, with cells of
+- Supports bounded and unbounded universes, with cells of
up to 256 states.
-- Supports multiple algorithms, including Bill Gosper's
+- Supports multiple algorithms, including Bill Gosper's
super fast hashlife algorithm.
-- Many different types of CA are included: John von Neumann's
- 29-state CA, Wolfram's 1D rules, WireWorld, Generations,
+- Many different types of CA are included: John von Neumann's
+ 29-state CA, Wolfram's 1D rules, WireWorld, Generations,
Langton's Loops, Paterson's Worms, etc.
-- The RuleTable and RuleTree algorithms let you plug in new
+- The RuleTable and RuleTree algorithms let you plug in new
rules.
- Responsive even while generating or garbage collecting.
-- Reads RLE, macrocell, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and MCell
+- Reads RLE, macrocell, Life 1.05/1.06, dblife, and MCell
files.
- Can also read common graphic formats: BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF.
- Can extract patterns, rules and scripts from zip files.
@@ -26,4 +28,4 @@ Golly's key features:
- Full screen option (no menu/status/tool/scroll bars).
- Supports multiple layers, including cloned layers.
- HTML-based help with an integrated Life Lexicon.
-- Scriptable via Perl or Python.
+- Scriptable via Perl or Python.