Today's featured app is Golly Portable, a Game of Life simulator, in honor of mathematician John Horton Conway. Sadly, Conway passed away due to COVID-19 over the weekend. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can use it on the go or on a PC without admin rights and it's in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. Golly is open source and completely free.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Golly, Game of Life, John Conway
Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for exploring Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata. 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, Langton's Loops, Paterson's Worms, etc.
Learn more about Conway's Game of Life...
Learn more about John Conway...
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Golly Portable is available for download within the PortableApps.com Platform and from the Golly Portable homepage.
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Sadly, original (and portable-apps also) version has bugs
0. Start the Golly.
1. Press «Alt+Space», «Left-Arrow» (or click by mouse) to dropdown menu «Help».
2. Select any item of submenu with «Up/Down-Arrow».
3. Confirm the selection with pressing of keyboard key «Enter».
4. The «Help» window appear and immediatly disappear.
64-bit version was checked. There are other bugs. There will be no one to fix them. Sadly.
P.S. Thank you for links about Conway and your memory about him.