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Thanks guys for the awesome replies. Now I have a ton of reading to do! :D You guys should sticky a thread for people just getting caught up with where the field is today. I guess I'm interesting in the possibilities of turning spaceships and guns into signals and circuits and seeing where that coul...

Where's the crab gun?

So gliders are the only spaceships that are easy enough, or at least studied enough, to be directed?

No I meant, is there any other type of glider that can go in any direction, top, bottom, right, or left -- and does it have a gun where you can specify it's direction. Maybe something like this: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Period-59_glider_gun any of the Period-59 glider guns can go horizontal or...

Sorry, I'm new to the community, so if this is an ignorant question, please forgive me. I did a google search but could not come up with anything. Has anyone found a general gun that can be pointed in a direction (A generator/gun like Adam P. Goucher and Matthias Merzenich period-20/40 gun)? So like...

so did this ever happen?

Thanks Andrew that worked. After like waiting 5-6 hours my OS has been updated -- to 10.10.3 Yosemite. At first I thought that might have been a mistake, but I can run Golly now. THANKS!

Golly is so awesome!

This is how I'm running it. $ cd /golly-2.7b3-mac109/Golly.app/Contents/MacOS $ ./Golly To get that error message, I run that from the shell -- oh I'm using bash by the way. $ echo $SHELL /bin/bash And I'm running OS X version 10.9.2. Python is 2.7: $ python --version Python 2.7 I do have Python 3, ...

When I try starting golly from the commandline, I get this error: $ ./Golly dyld: Library not loaded: /System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Python Referenced from: /Users/Sean/Downloads/golly-2.7b3-mac109/Golly.app/Contents/MacOS/./Golly Reason: no suitable image found. Did find: ...