#nes #life #rom #conway #game #containing #generate

app conway-nes

Generate a NES rom containing Conway's Game of Life

2 releases

0.1.1 Mar 21, 2021
0.1.0 May 21, 2020

#775 in Games

MIT license

545KB
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Conway's Game of Life on the NES in Rust

This program prints out a NES rom in ines format, which runs Conway's Game of Life.

$ cargo run > life.nes
$ fceux life.nes       # fceux is a NES emulator

Demo

Press any button on the controller to restart the simulation with a random state, seeded by the number of frames that have passed since starting.

Dependencies

~3.5–5MB
~80K SLoC