GOLLY(6)

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✨ GOLLY — like, the manual page, bestie ✨

okay so welcome to the Games Manual section for golly, section 6 (that's games, if you were wondering 🎮). sit down, grab a boba, we're doing cellular automata today and it's gonna be iconic. 💖

🌸 NAME 🌸

golly — Conway's Game of Life 🦋✨

no cap, that's the whole name section. short, sweet, ate. 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

golly [wxoptions]pattern-file

so the vibe is: you run golly, you can optionally throw some wxoptions at it (those are, like, the wxWidgets/wx-flavoured options — literally what they're called, don't @ me 🙈), and then you hand it a pattern-file with your actual pattern in it. that's the whole summoning ritual. 🧚

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

golly is a program to simulate Conway's Game of Life. 🫶

and honestly? that's the entire description in the original and we are not adding fake lore to it, because that would be lying, and lying is not the move. it simulates the Game of Life. that's the job. that's what it does. periodt. 👑

⚠️ fr fr: everything above is all the original page gives us. no hidden flags, no secret env vars, no exit statuses hiding in there. i'm not gonna make stuff up just to make this longer — that would be giving fake news energy and we don't do that here. 💀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

golly was written by Tomas Rokicki <rokicki@gmail.com> and Andrew Trevorrow <andrew@trevorrow.com>. 🎀

two absolute legends. main character energy from both of them. we stan. 🌟

and that's the whole page bestie!! no more sections, no SEE ALSO, nothing hiding in the wings. 🦋

this lil gem is from the Games Manual and it's dated January 31, 2008 — yeah, it's been serving for a minute and it's still cute. 💖✨

mwah, go simulate some gliders. 💅🌈

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