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From: davel@cbnewsl.att.com (David Loewenstern)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: Re: Games for programmed players
Message-ID: <1991Feb8.162722.6426@cbnewsl.att.com>
Date: 8 Feb 91 16:27:22 GMT
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In article <9102062219.AA18294@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> POPX@vax.oxford.ac.uk (Jocelyn Paine) writes:

>I would like to ask whether anyone else has designed such games, or if
>anyone knows references to them. I'll summarise replies to the net.
>Somebody mentioned a game called "Robot Wars" (_not_ Core Wars, which is
>the one in which machine code programs fight it out) but I've been
>unable to trace it.

There is a public domain program called "Crobots" for the IBM-PC, 
for which I have the binary.  Players program killer robots using a 
subset of C, and the robots then slug it out in an arena.  

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