Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!gymble!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Newsgroups: net.micro.pc,net.lang.c,net.ai,net.games Subject: Re: A contest in 'C'... Message-ID: <514@eneevax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 12-Feb-86 08:41:33 EST Article-I.D.: eneevax.514 Posted: Wed Feb 12 08:41:33 1986 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Feb-86 05:49:23 EST References: <2183@phri.UUCP> <4136@npoiv.UUCP> Reply-To: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu) Organization: Imperial Widget Research Center, Kingdom of Maryland Lines: 23 Xref: linus net.micro.pc:6724 net.lang.c:7305 net.ai:3057 net.games:2110 In article <4136@npoiv.UUCP> bad@npoiv.UUCP writes: > > This games sounds like a game called bolo which to my knowledge >was first written by Peter Langston who also wrote empire. I will assume that bolo was one of the Golden Oldie programs, but never having seen it, I'll leave its age at that. This sounds an awful lot like RobotWar, written by Muse Software for the Apple ][ many many eons ago. By coincidence, there was a Bolo program for the apple also, but that was more of an arcade game than anything else. It did have one side effect though: it made me decide not to read too much Keith Laumer :-) -dave -- David Hsu Communication & Signal Processing Lab, EE Department University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 hsu@eneevax.umd.edu {seismo,allegra}!umcp-cs!eneevax!hsu "They were the elite, the vanguard of progress. They would take mankind to the heights...and perhaps beyond." -Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End