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- From: paul@wolf.demon.co.uk (Paul Smith)
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- Subject: [rec.games.corewar] PCRobots
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- Date: 5 Nov 92 05:40:04 GMT
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- I just thought I'd announce this here, as there may be people
- interested and I can't think of any more suitable place...
-
- PCRobots is a program I wrote several months ago, it's an enhanced
- PC-only version of CRobots, but it'll run robots written using any
- standard DOS compiler/assembler (eg Borland C++, Turbo C++,
- Microsoft C, Turbo Pascal, QuickBasic, MASM etc). It has all the
- old CROBOTS functions, plus lots more for inter-robot
- communications, finding the way around a definable arena (rather
- than the plain open arena that CRobots was limited to). It also
- has a better graphical display - but this means you need an EGA
- or VGA display to use it.
-
- The program uses a cooperative multitasker to switch between
- robot tasks (which are .COM or .EXE files - this means that only
- certain functions (like scanning, moving or shooting) cause the
- next robot to run, so a robot can do complex calculations without
- being penalised. Also, because the programs are executables it
- means that they can be distributed without giving away all your
- algorithm secrets.
-
- An earlier version of this program was used as the basis for a
- competition run by a magazine in the UK (and they got an
- overwhelming response - literally...), so I thought I would make
- it available to the world at large.
-
- The original CRobots was intended as a learning aid to C -
- PCRobots *isn't* (you have been warned... :-) ).
-
- It should be available for anonymous FTP from ftp.demon.co.uk
- sometime soon (I've only just uploaded it there so I don't yet
- know what directory it will be in).
-
- Paul Smith
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