Well I originally intended to do scrolling text and music, but ran out of steam, and I've never done anything with text and couldn't find any simple tutorials or anything on this site. This is basically a version of conway's life with a couple of interesting properties:
-fade out of cells when they "die" for more graphical effect
-random killing based on a sin wave using the system timer as input
-"just dead" cells add fractional cell counts, thus a sudden extinction will elicit new cells