Used Golly for Mac? Share your experience and help other users.
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Used Golly for Mac? Share your experience and help other users.
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- GENERAL
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- Latest update
- Version
- 3.4
- OPERATING SYSTEMS
- Platform
- Mac
- Operating System
- Mac OS X
- Additional Requirements
- macOS Catalina
- macOS Mojave
- macOS High Sierra
- macOS Sierra
- OS X El Capitan
- OS X Yosemite
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4.5/5
4 User Votes
Mikey Likes It!
martinpaul--2008- Pros
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- Summary
- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A fine version of an old classic - Life was one of the things that drew me to computers, & one of the first lessons when I learned BASIC on my old VIC 20 many years ago was to write a Life program. Anyone who ever enjoyed this sim-game should have at least a few minutes fun w/ this great version - brought back memories for me. Also, pretty decent documentation & short history for those who somehow haven't run across Life before. Also - it runs real well on my bottom of the line Intel Mac
Mikey Likes It!
martinpaul--2008- Pros
- Cons
- Summary
- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />A fine version of an old classic - Life was one of the things that drew me to computers, & one of the first lessons when I learned BASIC on my old VIC 20 many years ago was to write a Life program. Anyone who ever enjoyed this sim-game should have at least a few minutes fun w/ this great version - brought back memories for me. Also, pretty decent documentation & short history for those who somehow haven't run across Life before. Also - it runs real well on my bottom of the line Intel Mac
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dylan3--2008- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Golly supports HUGE fields, and lets you smoothly zoom in and waaay out. Very impressive work! Thanks Andrew and Tom!
Cool retro version of John Conway's Game of Life
grikdog- Pros
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- This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Everyone's seen Life, except for the new kids who haven't, of course. What <i>very few</i> now alive have seen is the original, hand doodled version on <i>graph paper!</i> Which makes sense, of course, because Life is both addicting and maddening to generate by hand, which made it one of the very first pencil-and-graph-paper games to be computerized. Life is well-named, since the doodles in motion uncannily resemble the odd two-dimensional creatures of Flatland. What Golly brings to the table, besides the cool retro feel, is a collection of some of the largest and hardest to set up of this whimsical beasties ... including some of the very counterintuitive guns, puffers and breeders.<br><br>I give this high marks as a sterling museum piece, a kind of diorama on the inner worlds of the first computer programmers of the 20th century.