[Take my $$$] Mega-program for plotting evolution and other changes in a planet

[Kilgs]

Okay, it probably needs a Cray computer but... man could I waste a few hundred million years playing with something like this.

Virtual Planet Simulator

 

[ShawnDriscoll]

Just write your own.

 

[aramis]

Okay, it probably needs a Cray computer but... man could I waste a few hundred million years playing with something like this.

Virtual Planet Simulator

Cray stats: 32-bit clean 64 bit math registers quad core doing up to 2.44 GFLOPS, ~$15,000,000 +drives and terminals.

Modern AMD Ryzen 9 3900 1.546 TFLOPS at 64 bit... total system around $10,000, including a 4K monitor, and a color laser printer....

 

[tjoneslo]

I wonder if Sim-Earth is still around anywhere?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimEarth - Wikipedia to the rescue.

 

[coliver988]

I wonder if Sim-Earth is still around anywhere?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimEarth - Wikipedia to the rescue.

link at the bottom to play the MS-DOS version in the browser thanks to the Internet Archive. Sadly I am at work, and more sadly my computer hard drive crashed this week so I can't play all weekend with getting a daisy to grow!