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From: davoli@natinst.com (Russell Davoli)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: RoboSport
Message-ID: <23425@natinst.natinst.com>
Date: 20 May 91 18:35:56 GMT
References: <43493@netnews.upenn.edu> <12511@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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Organization: National Instruments, Austin, TX
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In article <12511@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, fq4@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Robert S. Unoki) writes:
> In article <43493@netnews.upenn.edu> you write:
> >Is RoboSport any good? Also, will it work in 16 colors on an LC? Send replies
> >through mail.
> 
> Yes - I think that it is a good game.  I'll tell you what I think is lacking.
>[stuff deleted]
> 2) Apple-talk bug.  There is a bug in the multiplayer apple talk option.  The
> 	macs can never recognize each other.  This is serious because we can
> 	never get a game started.  The serial or modem link works fine.  If the
> 	multi-player apple talk game goes the same as the serial link game, it
> 	would be AWESOME.

I've gotten Appletalk to work.  We had to take our machines off the network
and local network them directly.  We've used only two machines, and have
found that sometimes RoboSport hangs when trying to transfer info from the
primary to the secondary machine.  The workaround we use is to simply switch
the primary and secondary machines.

> 
> 3)  Robot editor.  It would be nice if we could create our own robots.
> 	i.e. create a heavily armored and armed "Ogre" style robot vs.
> 	8 light armored missile robots.

YES!! This is something I'd like to see, too.  Seems like some sort of point
or "money" scheme could be used where each team has so much money to spend
on developing the team.  Each robot body has a basic fee, then all the options
like shielding, weapons, stealh, etc. would cost more.

An additional thing on my wish list:

Be able to review all the robot programming steps for all the robots all
together, and have them line up in time.  Being able to see the paths is
good, but what's really needed is to be able to see the programming steps
and step through the to make sure everybody is going where you want them
to.  I remember seeing on CNN's Science and Technology Week a system for
dance choreography that let the user review the sequence of dance steps
by controlling a slider or something that indicated time.  If someone
could do this for dance, surely our favorite RoboHackers could do this.

Russell Davoli