Building a computer in Conway's game of life

Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by brundolf on Monday October 19, 2020 @06:49PM (#24831890)

But can it run Doom?

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Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by FartyMcFarter on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:00PM (#24831987)

Yes. I don't expect anyone can simulate that at real-time speed though (unless they take a lot of shortcuts, e.g. simulating at a higher level, which becomes a bit pointless).

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Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by dllthomas on Monday October 19, 2020 @08:13PM (#24832539)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashlife speeds things up a lot, although my uninformed guess is still not enough.

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Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by ctlachance on Monday October 19, 2020 @07:04PM (#24832017)

I suppose any Turing complete language could. You could run DOOM in PowerPoint if you were masochistic enough.

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Re:Building a computer in Conway's game of life by hedora on Thursday October 22, 2020 @10:55AM (#24858670)

There’s a Doom clone for excel:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6jyOJsJlLhI

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