This section lists all known bugs and limitations.
If you come across any problems not mentioned below then please
report them to Andrew Trevorrow
(andrew@trevorrow.com)
or Tom Rokicki
(rokicki@gmail.com).
Problems on all platforms
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Golly is a work in progress and we hope to add more features,
including support for toroidal universes, non-rectangular selections
and more sophisticated editing capabilities.
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All editing operations are restricted to cells whose coordinates
are within +/- 1 billion. There is also a bug in the HashLife
algorithm that prevents you from editing any cell states if the
pattern is very large (outside the +/- 1 billion limits).
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The QuickLife algorithm has a minor bug that can cause selecting
a large pattern to appear to be incorrect. The selection is actually
correct but the rectangle is slightly offset (by one pixel).
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Pattern rendering needs to be optimized, especially in the Mac and Linux apps.
Mac OS X problems
Windows problems
Linux/GTK problems
Linux/X11 problems
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The Linux/X11 app is no longer supported (the source code doesn't compile
due to limitations in wxX11).
Linux users will have to run the GTK version of Golly.