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From: alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: >>>Robot games (others) ...
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.003801.8374@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us>
Date: 10 Apr 91 00:38:01 GMT
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Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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jtsweet@uokmax.ecn.uoknor.edu (Jonathan Thoma Sweet) writes:

>After speaking to one of my programer friends about these "robot" games,
>he brought over his own robot game.  He calls it "Battle Code", it  
>involves this.  You write a program in pascal.  So does your friend, you
>then put these into a pascal source of the game.  Compile it in THINK 3.0
>and Your two programs slug it out in a one dimensional world that is 
>10,000 varibles [sic] long.

Sounds reminiscent of Core Wars.  Do you know about this game?  There's
a governing society (International Core Wars Fdn., I believe) and they
have regular competitions between the "cores".  Quite interesting to
watch.  As I recall, C-W runs on PCs, but also has been 'ported to other
systems.  You write in a meta-assembler and then watch the battle on
screen.

		Alex


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