Life ST is a fast real-time implementation of John Conway's matrix game "life". This program is GEM-based and is intuitively easy to use. A majority of computer users know about or have seen this game before so I won't go in to a detailed explanation of how to play. Suffice it to say that it's not a game in the traditional sense of playing to win but more of a computerized toy. You may freely distribute the executable version of Life ST but you may not restrict the distribution of or sell anything derived from it. All further distributions must include this notice. -- Jeff Bowden, December 1986 -- This program was developed using the Atari Developmers kit (Alcyon C). If enough people request it, I may be persuaded to dig up and distribute the source. The experience of writing this program is what convinced me not to develop anything more using GEM. It was, admittedly, only my third program in C, but the bugs and misfeatures in GEM are largely to blame for the bugs and misfeatures of this program (yes, I know I should have used a window - that's my fault). The major culprit is the delay imposed by AES in which it waits for the second click of a double click (and thereby forcing me to not use AES for input). -- Jeff Bowden (21 January 1989)