L  I  F  E                                       
                                                                                
    The original game of life was invented by mathematician John 
    Conway.  The idea is to initialize the screen with a pattern of 
    bacteria with the space bar.  Toggle pause off to bring life to 
    the colony.  The population increases and decreases according to 
    fixed rules which affect the birth and death of individual 
    bacterium.  A rectangular grid (2-dimensional matrix) will be 
    shown on the screen.  Each cell in the grid can contain a 
    bacterium or be empty.  Each cell has 8 neighbors.  The 
    existence of cells from one generation to the next is determined 
    by the following rules: 
                                                                                
  1.  A bacteria with 2 or 3 neighbors survives from one generation to          
      the next.  A bacterium with fewer neighbors dies of isolation.            
      One with more neighbors dies of overcrowding.                             
                                                                                
  2.  An empty cell spawns a bacteria if it has exactly three                   
      neighboring cells which contain bacteria.                                 

  Bristow Version:

      There are 14 species of bacteria each of a different color.

      The rules can be changed by toggling the number of neighbor               
      bacteria 0 to 8 to cause birth or to cause survival, life,
      for each species.  The Birth command requires that number
      of neighbor bacteria of the same species before a birth
      will occur.  The Life command requires a minimum density of
      neighbor bacteria of the same species but a maximum number
      of all species.  In other words, a bacterium needs a 
      minimum number of neighbors of its own species to stay alive
      but can be killed by overcrowding by too many neighbors of
      all species.

      Use "/4" on the command line to increase the screen resolution.
      Use "/8" on the command line for highest screen resolution.
      Use "/Yxxx" on the command line to set the number of cycles 
                before the program will automatically reinitialize
                the screen with a random pattern.  This will also
                trigger an evolution simulation in which the properties
                of the 3 species with the highest populations will
                be duplicated for the other 11 species and then
                mutated by one random change per species.
                xxx should be a number 10 to 200.
      Use "/Rx" on the command line to determine the density
         of random bacteria when the "R" key is used to fill
         the screen at random.  The "x" above should be a number
         from 2 to 200.

      A . (dot) followed by a three letter extension, example: ".tst"
      on the command line can be used to start a new save file
      for the program.

      Use the cursor movement keys and the space bar  
      to toggle each bacterium on the screen on or off.
      This can be done in either pause mode or active mode.
      You can toggle the active color for turning bacteria on 
      or off from colors 1 (dark blue) to 14 (bright yellow).

      If a bacteria is to be born, it will be the color of the
      majority of its neighbors.  If no color has a majority among
      its neighbors it will be the color of the neighbor with the
      highest color number (yellow outranks blue).

      Use "E" to erase all life.
      Use "R" to fill the screen with bacteria at random.
      Use "I" for program information.

      Try these initial patterns
                XX                             XXXX
               XX                    XXX          X
                X                                 X
                                                  X
      This help file, "LIFEB.DOC", will become "LIFEB1.DOC" 
      after the first time it is read and displayed by the program.
      It can be changed back to "LIFEB.DOC" to force display when
      the program is started.

      Command line commands can be stored in a configuration file
      to automatically set conditions for operation of the program.
      The configuration file must be named LIFEB.CFG and it should
      have a separate line for each command.  If any line in the 
      configuration files begins with a semicolon, ";", it will be
      considered a remark line and not read by the program.  Commands
      put on the command line will supercede commands in the
      configuration file.

      The Computer Screen while running LIFEB:

      The Main Box covering the left side of the screen is the world
      of the bacteria showing each bacterium identified by color.
      Press the [TAB] key to start or stop the action.
      The two boxes at the top right corner of the screen show the
      number of bacteria by species (color).  The box on the right
      shows this information numerically plus the total number of
      bacteria and the number of cycles that have run without
      restarting.  The one on the left shows a graph of the last
      30 cycles.

      The box at the bottom right corner shows the properties of
      Life and Death for the species of the active color.