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From: rxcjm@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (John Mazzocchi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: Robot games...
Message-ID: <1991Apr10.231829.9924@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 10 Apr 91 23:18:29 GMT
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jmunkki@hila.hut.fi (Juri Munkki) writes:

>So, anyone want to have a Forth programmable robot battle program?
>Would it be worth the trouble to write one?

Yes! God, yes. The best robot game I ever played was the old Robot War! on the
Apple II. C-Robots would be a second choice. But the current spate of games
(Omega included) are a poor substitute.

The thing about Robot War! is that it used an assembly language, of sorts, to
write the code for the robots. It was powerful, terse and easy to use. The only
thing I ever missed was trig functions. You would have to write subroutines
using series approximations.
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