Since my mental illness is still not cured, and I’m very much into this “game of life” thing, I also developed a version of Conway’s game of life for Mac OS X using Objective-C and the framework Cocoa.
Esthetically speaking the Cocoa version is much more cool then the Java one… but the algorithm is actually the same. I named it “CocoLife” fusing “Cocoa”, the name of the framework I used, and “Life”. The application’s icon represent a particular configuration of the game of life called “glider”.
Since I cured much more the develop of this version I filled up the application with many “cool” features! In CocoLife is possible to:
- Configure the colors of background and automata
- Choose between 4 different world sizes (50×50, 100×100, 250×250 and 500×500)
- Choose the world type (bordered-world or loop-world)
- Change the execution speed of the simulation modifying the interval of pause between transitions
- Create personal world configurations using the bult-in world-editor
The application, released under the license GNU GPL v2, requires Mac OS X 1.5 Leopard to work.
Download CocoLife from here:
- XCode Project source code: CocoLife-src.zip
- Mac OS X Universal Binary: CocoLife.zip
June 2, 2008 at 12:52 pm |
I would to test your cocoa project…but i’m not able to test it yet because i can’t run .jar file…and i’m too sick to download java platform…so i ask you to build a fuckin’ exe file so i can run it; and i think many other people will be able to do the same;
I’m so sorry for my bad-english but i’m so sick to study it too…
See you tomorrow Freedom…
June 5, 2008 at 3:35 am |
I’m sorry, Draco, but if you are using a Windows PC, you are stuck with the “.jar” java file, since the executable is a “.app” Leopard-only one.
For sure you can’t test or compile the Cocoa version on a Windows PC, since Cocoa is a Mac-only language.
And since you’ve been trying to hack Mac OS X on your laptop for the last month, I think you could “waste” 5 minutes to install the JVM on it and run the “.jar” version
(by the way, it’s much easier to run Mac OS X on a real Mac than trying to hack it into a PC
)
Fredd
June 6, 2008 at 2:08 pm |
Sooner or later i will succeed in the hacking of OS X, this is my only business and a personal fight as the way i waste my fuckin’ time.
I asked Freedom to create a .exe file so he can distribuite it easily, not only for me; and i perfectly know that i can install the JVM to run the jar file…
In the previous post i wrote with tongue in cheek…i can’t understand if you have done the same…maybe yes…but i hate smiles…probably for that i answered as a jerk…
bye
Draco
June 7, 2008 at 4:50 pm |
Sry, I usually go with smilies when I feel like my words could be taken as an offence when they are not; I had no intention to offend whatsoever.
I was simply pointing that, since Cocoa is a Mac-only language, it is not possible to create a “.exe” for windows, that’s all.
I know there are a lot of people with Windows machines that would like to try it, but I’m afraid the only choice for them is to go with the java multiplatform version.
Fredd
June 7, 2008 at 5:14 pm |
ok…maybe i will install the jvm…and sorry me too.
Draco
August 19, 2009 at 10:52 pm |
I’ve been looking for a Game of Life app that doesn’t run on Java. This looks so promising! But the link seems broken, do you think you can send me a copy?
Many thanks!
August 20, 2009 at 5:26 pm |
Hi, u can download the source code and the binary from this page:
http://www.stefanovettor.com/portfolio/mac-os-x-applications/