I remember doing similar in MIT digital lab in 1975. My team built Conways Game of Life out of TTL gates. I did the display on the oscilloscope. The grid was 32

I remember doing similar in MIT digital lab in 1975. My team built Conways Game of Life out of TTL gates. I did the display on the oscilloscope. The grid was 32 by 32, limited by memory sizes at the time. Memory was the most expensive chips at the time, so the lab rationed them. We had double buffer design. One chip held the current generation for display and input to the game engine. The other chip held the next generation.