What is the DC-Cell program?

An interactive game program based on the operating principle of cellular automata. The game takes place on a square grid, the size of which can be changed. Cell development can be initiated, and then the process of development can be interfered with, you can shoot the cells with different weapons. 9 types of background can be selected, the colors of the cells can be adjusted. To shape the cells, you can choose from the following 4 shapes

Colour cells

Smiling

Chess pieces

Binary numbers

There are predefined shapes in the default setting, but they are visible in the toolbar miniatures can also be dragged onto the track. In addition, shapes can also be drawn manually These can be saved to a file You can also load a text file.

How do I use the DC Cell Game program?

Download the program. Install it.After that it can be used immediately with the bacic settings

Menu and short cut

File

• Crtl + O Load 📥 or drag the text file into the grid
• Crtl + R ReLoad 🔄
• Crtl + S Save 📤
• Alt+F4 Exit

View

• F3 Start/Stop. 🕛
• F4 Cells Zoom +
• F5 Cells Zoom -
• F12 Clear
• e Click Enabled
• F1 Full Screen

Configuration

• Ctrl + G Style and Colors configuration

Shapes

• F8 Gosper Glider Gun
• F9 Random
• F10 Full
• F11 Vertical Guns
• Ctrl + F Emoji 😄
• Ctrl + B Binary 10111
• Ctrl + A Colors 🌈
• Ctrl + E Chess pieces ♔ ♕

Help

• Index
• About

FeedBack Modified Conway's Life of Game

Clicking with the left mouse button has two functions:

The basic function is to click into the grid
Click the grid
With the buttons 0,1,2,3,4 you can draw various shapes
0 - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 -
Pressing 5 turns off this function
If you keep pressing one of the 0,1,2,3,4 buttons, the shape corresponding to that button is continuously entered.
By pressing the right arrow, the number of the cell column can be increased
The number of columns in the cell can be decreased by pressing the left arrow
The number of rows in the cell can be increased by pressing the down arrow
The number of rows in the cell can be reduced by pressing the up arrow
Zoom in by pressing + or F4
Zoom out by pressing the - key or F5

If you press the e character key on the keyboard,then the function of the click changes,this is also indicated by the change in the shape of the mouse cursor

Then if you click in the grid, it fills 1 cell,
If you press the F3 key to stop the drawing process,you can freely draw in the cells, then press F3 again, the program will pick up the drawn cells

If you are not in full screen mode and click on a cell, you can drag shapes from the toolbar

Shapes can be loaded and saved from a text file
The program saves the settings. Click Help About to see the locations of the ini file.
The bottom status bar shows the path to the loaded file.
Tested on Windows10 professional version.
Recommended resolution 1920 x 1080
Column Count min: 30 max: 180
Row Count: min: 25 max: 100
Row Height: min: 8 max: 40
Row Width: min: 8 max: 40
Speed change, the lower the value, the faster the program will be. (depends with hardware)
Increasing the number of cells decreases the speed

To insert a thumbnail into a cell, you must first click on the cell and then drag it. You can also add thumbnails while running. You can undo color cells with CTRL + Z. The settings are saved automatically. When you start the program, the values ​​in the Ini file are loaded.

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