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From: davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: C-RObots
Message-ID: <1991May17.020609.1399@NCoast.ORG>
Date: 17 May 91 02:06:09 GMT
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Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast)
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In article <1991May15.173626.3111@crash.cts.com> uzun@pnet01.cts.com (Roger Uzun) writes:
>[]
>Does C-RObots have graphics?  As I recall the graphics and development/test
>environment of RobotWar was far far better than C-Robots.
	Yes, the last two versions of C-Robots have had real color graphics,
although the debug mode is still lacking the "slow run" mode of RobotWar.
Perhaps you liked the integrated environment of RobotWar, but many people
(myself included) did not, and would rather have used our own editors
(I modified my copy of RobotWar to use an external text editor, and wrote up
a program that could convert "normal" ASCII file robots into the RobotWar
format and back again, just to get around using it). I actually find that
using the C-Robots debugger is MORE usefull than what was available in
RobotWar, but the "test bench" is not quite as good.

				Dave

(Oh, this comes up quite a bit. Almost at the time the Amiga 1000 came out
there was a text-only port of C-Robots done by someone with an Asian
sounding name. My version of C-Robots was not based on his, but rather was a
completely new port of the MS-DOS/Unix version of C-Robots, to which I added
many new features, improved the compiler, added graphics, etc. My version has
very little in common with his (or the MS-DOS/Unix) version of C-Robots
except that it is backwards compatible with robots written for them.
(Although you can't take "compiled" robots from my version and use them in
the other version, you can take the "source" to the robots and use them
with the MS-DOS/Unix versions, as long as you don't make use of the improved
features of my compiler).