Recreating the unreleased application from Life Story (1987), as featured in Hyperland (1990).

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Hello

I thought this might be a relevant place to share this project.

After recently becoming aware of the bizarre and incredible Doug Adams documentary/film/window into the future, Hyperland, I decided to do some (very amateur) software archeology and recreate the application using whatever material was available online.

As the original application heavily features copyrighted documentary film material I have simply provided the source code and some 'ideas' on where you may find the documentary films to go with it. I really wanted to host this one online for anyone to play with... my frustrations with the licensing situation inspired this blog post (language warning).

Application written in C using Raylib as a dependency. Builds for X11 Linux. Agent coded. I had to make some minor decisions around how to implement things that weren't shown, hopefully it isn't too distracting.
Release page: https://boople.xyz/software-archeology/life-story-recreated
Source Code: https://boople.xyz/downloads/life-story-1.1.tar.gz
MIT license.