Agar: An Animal Construction Kit

published by author in 1988, running on Macintosh OS Classic

type: simulation
genre: Life simulation
perspective: other bird's-eye
player options: single player

languages: eng

Technical specs

software: LISP programming language,

display: raster, Monotone

Editor note

This application holds the distinction of being a threat to the US Federal Prison System. The author first attempted to send disks to a prisoner requesting this simulation as part of an educational program (prisoners had access to Macs?). The which were rejected by the warden like any other computer CD or disk media, as was policy at the time. It was suggested he could send a printout of the source code that the prisoner could type in and compile, which he did. This code printout was rejected as a threat to the institution. He appealed which resulted in US Federal Prison System declaring his application a threat to the entire US Federal Prison System. I wonder, what could possibly be in the code that a prisoner could not have come up with an compiled themselves independently; as in, someone with the skill to turn two pages of source code it into a threat, should also have the skill to create their own threat? Quite an accomplishment for the author.