I was unable to find the application that Will Wright was using in the video, but I found several others that do a similar thing. Conway's Game of Life is available free online and was written in 1970. It is a game of "cellular automaton" and has the same basic rules as the program that Wright was using.
http://www.bitstorm.org/gameoflife/
Here is a link to an embedded applet that you can play online.
My preferred option for opening this application is playing in directly in Mac os X, as it is embedded in emacs a command line editor located in the terminal of Mac os X.
to do this:
1.go into Terminal- its in utilities in your applications folder (I just type it into spotlight).
2. Load emacs by typing "emacs" into the terminal window then pressing [En].
3. Select the command line by pressing [esc] then [x].
4. To load life type "life" then press [En].
Life will begin immediately.
Editing the cells in emacs is a bit trickier, and involves some knowledge of how it works. Here is are intermediate level instructions on how to edit in it.
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