Conway's game of life's rules and details are explained in
this wikipedia article.
To play (watch) the game develop, open the src folder in terminal
and run the command
./fpgrars-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu--8-bit-display GameOfLife.asm
The game will then unravel in a new window,
starting from the initial state pointed by the .data file
in the initial_configuration folder.
Check out fpgrars from the source!
Please note that this will only work on Linux, and make sure the
fpgrarsexecutable was granted permission to run.