The Fool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 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. > >The way I read it the _rules_ for that particular version of life allowed >it to be reversible. Zip files are compressed files. I think you mean >some kind of database archive. > What is mean is: (a) the Life set can be used as a computer [as we will learn from the next chapters, sp. Chapter 12] (b) The information from that specific variant seems to be compressed [again, from information from Chapter 12] (a) + (b) suggests that this "VARIANT RULE: RVRSBL CA 879W" is no Life variant at all, but just a fancy program that compresses bits. Alberto Monteiro
