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From: BHBOTHWE@HELIX.watstar.uwaterloo.ca (Hugh Bothwell)
Subject: Re: AILife, games, programming..
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Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 21:18:07 GMT

In article <mreddy-141194081513@mreddy.comp.glam.ac.uk> mreddy@glamorgan.ac.uk (Mike Reddy) writes:

>> to fight up to seven other robots in an arena. The robots are programed in a
>> language called RoboTalk, that is simple, but effective for teaching. 
>> Once the robots are programed you see an animated fighting sene between 
>> them. I don't know exactley where to find it, but it's probably in the 
>> info-mac archives.

If you want more information on games of this type, try the rec.games.
corewars group; there's a lot of activity there lately with C++Robots and PC-
Robots, which are the same as you have described but with the nice 
difference that they use a standard language instead of some hacked-together 
would-be.

C++Robots can only be programmed in (did you guess?) C++, but PC-Robots 
accepts EXE or COM robot files, so you can program in Basic, C/C++, Pascal, 
or assembly or you can write a library file for other languages; but the 
program has to run in <64k.

These games are really good for teaching programming, but I like PC-Robots 
because it teaches a "real" language.  Best of all, they're shareware!
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