The 4.0.1 version of Golly for Mac was available as a free download on our website. The following versions: 2.5, 2.4 and 2.2 were the most frequently downloaded ones by the program users. The Golly installer is commonly called golly-2.2-mac.zip. The bundle id for Golly for Mac is net.sourceforge.golly. This free software for Mac OS X is an intellectual property of Andrew Trevorrow and Tomas Rokicki. Golly for Mac lies within Games, more precisely Simulation.
From the developer:
Golly is an open source, cross-platform application for exploring Conway's Game of Life and many other types of cellular automata. The primary authors are Andrew Trevorrow and Tom Rokicki, with code contributions by Tim Hutton, Dave Greene, Jason Summers, Maks Verver, Robert Munafo, Brenton Bostick and Chris Rowett.
You may want to check out more software for Mac, such as Maelstrom, Racer or Oolite, which might be related to Golly.