Acornsoft Life

Acornsoft Life is an implementation of Conway's Game of Life. The player draws patterns by moving a cursor over the screen and upon pressing the return key the patterns will start to evolve based on three rules:

- If an empty square is surrounded by exactly three organisms a new one is born.

- If an organism is surrounded by four or more organisms it dies of overcrowding.

- If an organism has less that one neighbour it dies of loneliness.

There are seven predefined pattern that the player can add in any orientation to any position of the screen:

- Glider which moves diagonally

- Small spaceship which moves horizontally or vertically

- Flying machine which moves horizontally or vertically

- Glider gun which fire out gliders

- Queen bee which is an oscillating shape

- 15 cycle which is an oscillator with a period of 15

- Eater which eats various small blocks of life