The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> * What is a _reversible_ Life game? I suppose this is no Life game
>> at all, but some kind of zip/compress utility
> 
> This is just Brin taking liberties with the narrative.  
> To make Life reversible would require enough changes to 
> the system that it wouldn't be recognizeable as Life 
> anymore.  
>
Oh, but what is called a "reversible game" can't be
a reversible game, because at the end there is an 
empty screen - so I thought that maybe it was just
a fancy nickname to some kind of zip.

Alberto Monteiro

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