golly help/other game of life simulators

[malcolm81]

Ok I just read the new Stephen Hawkings book, and I give it a "Huh?". But it talks about something called Conway's "The Game of Life" which is just an abstract "world", i.e. a turn based board game without any players (totally dependent on the initial state), and I was looking to fiddle with it.

There is something on sourceforge called Golly, Browse Golly, a Game of Life simulator Files on SourceForge.net, but when I hit the play button the application quits and I get this on the command line:

./golly: symbol lookup error: ./golly: undefined symbol: gzopen64

Anyone get this working? or is there an alternative anywhere?

Thanks,
Malcolm