VieIII / 2020-04-14 12:02:33

The Game of Life is a famous and popular 2D cellular automaton invented by Dr. John Horton Conway, who sadly died of COVID-19 on April 11th, 2020. In the 90s, my very first, real Amiga program was a Game of Life called Vie (life in French), which I had improved until releasing VieIII on Aminet on July 18th, 1996 .

Originally compiled with SAS/C, I was recently porting it to VBCC, which is a more modern compiler that works well with the great Cubic IDE . The porting was not too difficult but made me realised that my code, at the time!, was very coupled... maybe because SAS/C allowed including C files, which I mindlessly abused at the time .

Now, I separated better the different C files, added some headers to expose and share few variables and many functions, and it compiles and runs again! I uploaded the new version in Aminet, including a new pattern in memoriam of Dr. Conway from XKCD...