Index: manual/plugins/rocklife.tex =================================================================== --- manual/plugins/rocklife.tex (revision 29826) +++ manual/plugins/rocklife.tex (working copy) @@ -1,18 +1,22 @@ \subsection{Rocklife} -This an implementation of J. H. Conway's Game of Life (see +This is an implementation of J. H. Conway's Game of Life (see \url{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway\%27s_Game_of_Life} for a detailed description). -Rockbox can open files with a configuration description (\fname{.cells} files). -Just ``play'' such file and the game configuration stored in it will be loaded -into this plugin. +The plugin can be used as a viewer for several types of configuration +files. The plugin should be able to open most configurations with the +following extensions: \fname{.cells}, \fname{.l}, \fname{.lif}, \fname{.life} +and \fname{.rle}. -A \fname{.cells} file is a text file. A capital `O' marks a live cell, a dot -marks a dead cell, all other characters are ignored. Everything on a line -starting with an exclamation sign (and including it) is a comment and is -ignored. +Just ``play'' a supported file and the game configuration stored in it will be +loaded into this plugin. There is support for reading alternate rule sets from +Life 1.05 and RLE configurations. +All supported configuration files are plain text files. A description of +several configuration formats can be found at +\url{http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/mcell/ca_files_formats.html}. + \begin{btnmap} \PluginSelect \opt{HAVEREMOTEKEYMAP}{& \PluginRCSelect}