I know there has been a great deal of research on Life rules. In the old days they did it on graph paper; that's how they found gliders from what I understand. Can you imagine doing all those computations by hand, for even one generation? :) And heaven help you if you make a mistake. Cellular automa...

Nice work! Another rule set I have seen implemented is to activate a cell (make it alive) if and only if it has 3 or 4 neighbors. This rule seems to favor growth more than standard (Conway) life. Might be worth a try. I'll definitely be playing around with this tonight :)

Is it just me, or is this program a close cousin of Conway's Game of Life? Maybe it's just me. Interesting!

Nice :) I love stuff like this. Keep it coming!

It does sound like a FreeDOS problem. Thanks Monty for the feedback! :)

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darryl seamans, not to butt in, but have you taken a look at VB.NET lately ? Yes, and I wonder...what could FB offer in this area that VB.NET hasn't? Well, an open-source implementation for Linux, that would be good, I admit. But I believe for all its quality it would be a distant second to Microso...

I think you're confusing "IDE" and "compiler" here. As for portability, FreeBASIC code is already highly portable between WIndows, Linux and DOS. Of course, you must re-compile for each platform, and to truly enjoy the features a particular one offers (for example, the Windows G...

Not to be negative, but looking at FB... I see... 1. A command prompt. 2. Small white letters. 3. No syntax highlighting Please make FB more appealing. I expected FB to at least look like a word document. Also: Try to make FB an Integrated Development Environment that supports Rapid Application Dev...

Hello Everybody. My idea is that if they (Metrowerks) did it, there is no reason why we can't reconstruct an FB compiler based on previous, present and future versions. Imagine! Like CW, we can create a FB-IDE that ports to the SAME operating system or for a different operating system and architect...

God, I'm really sick of threads with context about "hey, i've got a FB compiler suggestion". How about making a "i have an idea forum" How about if we re-do FreeBASIC to compile Pascal programs? Or modify it to run programs umodified from the original Dartmouth machines? Maybe I...

I wrote this program around 1993 to sample the colors possible in SCREEN 13. By setting the red/green/blue value mix one can display all 64^3 possible colors in mode 13. Basically it draws a rectangle on the screen and allows the user to change the RGB values determining the color of the rectangle u...

This program simulates picking six numbers out of 42 in the style of many lotteries. It could be adapted for other N out of M picks. Not very high-quality code or anything earth-shattering, but the routine to input the six numbers is interesting. There are tons of ways this code could be improved, a...

I'm having a hard time understanding the post.... One thing that I am sure of is that I am not in favor of this comment: "However, I do advocate that there is a need for a version which adheres to the original concept;... I propose that the fbc organization add a second goal, that of selecting...