On Friday, 27 April 2018 21:09:57 UTC+1, ArcadeAge  wrote:   
   > Do you have any additional information on Space Colony?   
      
   Yes.   
      
   > I found a program by Tim Hartnell called Evolution, published in his   
   "Symphony for a Melancholy Computer", and -- according to Hartnell --   
   plagiarized by someone called R W Moore in Vic Computing 04/1982.   
   >    
   > I wrote a Game of Life BASIC program for the Commodore 64 a few years ago,   
   but it was painfully slow. I developed some ideas for reducing the number of   
   memory accesses and did plan to rewrite it in assembly language, but that never   
    materialized. I    
   assume that entire volumes on Game of Life implementations were published at   
   the time when it was new.   
   >    
   > Chris   
      
   Regards,   
      
   Shaun.   
      
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