Well, what else was I going to do? This works and that means I think BINSIC does too. It’s not quite a fully functional BASIC – try as I might I cannot get GOTO or even GOSUB to work inside loops (though I might do better if plough on with the GOSUB stuff), but I’ll hopefully launch it all tomorrow evening.

10 REM Game of Life
20 PRINT "Conway's Game of Life"
30 PRINT "Copyright Adrian McMenamin, 2012"
35 PRINT "adrianmcmenamin@gmail.com"
40 PRINT "Licensed under the GPL version 3"
50 DIM A(48, 70)
60 DIM B$(24)
70 PRINT "Please enter your pattern"
75 PRINT " - up to 24 lines of 70 characters"
80 FOR I = 1 TO 24
90 INPUT B$(I)
95 LET T = 0
97 IF B$(I) = "DONE" THEN LET T = 1
98 IF T = 1 THEN LET B$(I) = ""
100 IF T = 1  THEN GOTO 150
110 PRINT B$(I)
120 NEXT I
150 REM Parse Input
160 LET P = 0
170 LET G = 0
175 LET Y = 0
177 LET Q = 0
180 FOR Y = 1 TO 24
190 LET Z = LEN B$(Y)
210 IF Z = 0 THEN NEXT Y
220 FOR Q = 1 TO Z
222 LET A(Y, Q) = 0
225 IF MID$(B$(Y), Q, 1) = " " THEN LET A(Y + 24, Q) = 0
230 IF MID$(B$(Y), Q, 1) <> " " THEN LET A(Y, Q) = 1
232 IF MID$(B$(Y), Q, 1) <> " " THEN LET A(Y + 24, Q) = 1
234 IF MID$(B$(Y), Q, 1) <> " " THEN LET P = P + 1
240 NEXT Q
250 FOR Q = Z + 1 TO 70
260 LET A(Y, Q) = 0
265 LET A(Y + 24, Q) = 0
270 NEXT Q
280 NEXT Y
300 REM Display Map
310 PRINT
320 PRINT
330 PRINT
340 PRINT "Generation ", G, " Population is ", P
350 FOR M = 1 TO 24
355 PRINT
360 FOR N = 1 TO 70
370 IF A(M + 24, N) = 1 THEN PRINT "*";
375 IF A(M + 24, N) <> 1 THEN PRINT " ";
380 NEXT N
390 NEXT M
400 REM Map next generation
410 FOR M = 1 TO 24
420 FOR N = 1 TO 70
430 LET A(M, N) = 0
440 IF M + 1 < 25 AND A(M + 25, N) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
450 IF M - 1 > 0 AND A(M + 23, N) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
460 IF N + 1 < 71 AND A(M + 24, N + 1) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
470 IF N - 1 > 0 AND A(M + 24, N - 1) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
480 IF M - 1 > 0 AND N - 1 > 0 AND A(M + 23, N - 1) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
490 IF M - 1 > 0 AND N + 1 < 71 AND A(M + 23, N + 1) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
500 IF M + 1 < 25 AND N - 1 > 0 AND A(M + 25, N - 1) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
510 IF M + 1 < 25 AND N + 1 < 71 AND A(M + 25, N + 1) = 1 THEN LET A(M, N) = A(M, N) + 1
520 NEXT N
530 NEXT M
540 LET P = 0
600 FOR M = 1 TO 24
610 FOR N = 1 TO 70
611 LET ZZ = 0
612 LET SC = A(M, N)
612 IF A(M + 24, N) = 1 THEN LET ZZ = 1
613 LET RES = 0
614 IF ZZ = 0 AND SC = 3 THEN LET RES = 1
615 IF ZZ = 1 AND (SC = 2 OR SC = 3) THEN LET RES = 1
616 LET A(M + 24, N) = RES
617 LET P = P + RES
650 NEXT N
660 NEXT M
700 PAUSE 50000
800 LET G = G + 1
900 GOTO 310