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From: s902113@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Luke Mewburn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.games
Subject: Re: RoboSport
Message-ID: <1991May30.034911.20069@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au>
Date: 30 May 91 03:49:11 GMT
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Organization: RMIT Computer Centre, Melbourne Australia.
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dave@cprmtn.ogi.edu writes:


>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.
>>
>>1) Arena editor.  RoboSport comes with 3 types of Arenas and 8 configurations
>>	each.   That makes for 24 playing fields.  I wish that they would
>>	have included an editor so we could create our own.  The files look
>>	relatively small.  In the future, I suspect they would sell an editor
>>	(much like the terrain editor for SimCity) or sell additional arena
>>	sets.
>>

>	yes!! it gets kind of boring after you have played them all. They
>	would have to get stranger like : mall - hide behind clothes and blast
>	away robots, and maybe even shoppers; maybe site files from Sim Earth
>	or whole Sim Cities.

Well, I'll agree here.

>>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.

>	What are you running? CDEA`s INIT`s  I don`t havt that problem.
>	What I hate is that you have to set up the opposing team from the
>	primary computer. 

Nope, I think the reason here is that they are running on a server with
more than one node. I had the problem too, and we had to take the server
down to play robosport :-(
Anyway, I would like the ability to handle nodes on Robosport (for obvious
reasons...)


>>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.
>>
>>
>>THE GOOD STUFF.
>>
>	>deleted<
>	I agree whole-heartly. Worth every cent!

Me too.

>>rob
>>-- 
>>
>>Robert S. Unoki
>>unokirs@mentor.cc.purdue.edu
>>(standard disclaimer, please)
>>

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>Dave Heinen
>Cooper Mountain R&D
>16340 SW Nora Rd.
>Beaverton Oregon 97007
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