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The state of MCell today.

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Posted by: alan2here

http://www.mirwoj.opus.chelm.pl/ca/
This is MCell, Life32 and a couple of others are also very good but MCell is the only CA software that does most of what it does.

However MCell has lay dormant for many years, possibly the creator is no longer interested, it is not known if there is any source code for it. The creator will not respond to emails.

I think sufficient time has passed to wait any longer, that it is fair to crack it open and recompile an improved version of it.

The speed is the main problem with it being quite slow. The interface is generally very nice, however it to has obvious problems such as the window to change the type of CA with all the advanced options in it. It has 3 levels of tabs on top of one another making it almost impossible to navigate. The pallet editor could defiantly be improved. There are no doubt also new rules and CA's to be added as well as updating the bundled pattern files to be like those that Life32 uses. It has faults on loading image files and has no options about how this should be done.


Posted by: Tony Smith

I've been closely following and doing limited beta testing of Golly (http://golly.sourceforge.net/) since it became the development path to succeed my long time favourite CA engine LifeLab, as well as it seems some other significant engines.

MCell has certainly been mentioned frequently during development discussions, but I don't have time right now to check the details of that part of the heritage.

Golly has strong multi-layered UI, even to the point of embedded Python and Perl scripting capabilities, and continues to be in active development with version 1.3 currently in beta.


Posted by: alan2here

Thank you for the Golly reminder, I found it impresivly fast if a little fetureless last time I looked, however that was quite some time ago, it may be much better now, you'r above post makes me excited about it's possiblities. Thank you for taking the time to post.


Posted by: alan2here

Whoah :¬)
Thats FAST
how the **** does it to that?

Can this "hashing" be applied to other programs? Id never need to update my PC again.




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