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From: bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Tobish E Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Robot Battle available
Message-ID: <111384@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 4 Apr 91 18:21:17 GMT
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Here's the description of our new game, Robot Battle (not related at
all to Maxis' RoboSport), which is now available via anonymous ftp 
from sumex-aim.stanford.edu, under info-mac/game/robot-battle-101.hqx:


This is version 1.01 of Robot Battle, by Blue Cow Software.  Robot
Battle is a game in which the players program robots using a language
called RIPPLE (very reminiscent of Apple ][ BASIC, i.e. easy to use),
then watch the robots slug it out on the battlefield.  Features a 
built-in text editor, comprehensive debugging windows for each robot,
and a very nice Mac interface.  An unbiased user wrote "With the recent
flood of robot battle games, this one looks like it would stand out..."
  This program is a fully-functional version of Robot Battle.  However,
it does not include the full complement of weapons that are available
with the commercial version.  It is completely usable as-is, however; the
additional weapons just add more strategy.

Toby Smith
bluecow@unix.cis.pitt.edu