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Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x

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An implementation of Conway's Game of Life for Windows 3.1x and later is available, along with several other utilities. Life isn't a very useful implementation, being much too limited, but the source code contains interesting bits including mixing 16-bit C code and 32-bit assembly via winmem32.dll, translating between DIBs with different color organizations, non-trivial management of a small palette, and background processing and window updating.

GDIRescuer is a little programming utility for Debug Windows 3.1x. Using the toolhelp.dll and one or two undocumented features, this program finds GDI objects that were left lying around by other programs. If it finds any such objects, it displays them in a list, allowing you to examine and/or delete them.

Code Breaker is a version of Bulls & Cows (more commonly known as Mastermind). This program started out as my first serious Windows program, and was the first program I ever sold. A help file is included.

All of these programs are free software, as per the GNU General Public License. Complete source code is of course included with each. Contact me if you have any questions or comments.