Robowar in Matlab... Why does that sounds scary...

Paul skrev:
>
> Actually in the last few months I've been thinking that it would be a
> fun project to rewrite Robowar and give it a Qt user interface. Lots
> of nostalgia points, a chance to make a non-toy program in Qt, and of
> course a way to avoid my research... as a side benefit, I'd have a
> functioning version of Robowar for my Mac again.
>
> Anyway that project would probably start with a graphics-free engine
> and I'd probably kludge together a way to watch the action in Matlab
> until the mechanics were all in place. I'd be doing a lot of the work
> in Linux anyway since that's where I can run Matlab, etc. etc.
>
> So if this ever happens, I'll end up with Robowar via C++/Qt or
> C++/CMake/Qt or whatever else gets piled in there... the less the
> better. No promises. My Real Work is pretty engrossing these days,
> and though I may joke about avoiding research, on a daily basis I tend
> more to avoid everything *but* research.
>
> Paul
>
> --- In robowar@yahoogroups.com <mailto:robowar%40yahoogroups.com>,
> "Randall" <rmunroe@...> wrote:
> >
> > I am interested in running some tournaments with different structures,
> > and I want to be able to specify battles myself. I don't care about
> > being able to see things happening, and I don't need the editor or
> > icons or anything -- I can do all that in normal RoboWar. What I want
> > is a way to call RoboWar with a few robots specified, and have it run
> > a battle and return the result. Something like
> >
> > ~$ robowar -robots=arachnee.rwr,dislexix.rar,dhs.rar
> >
> > and have it just return the result of the battle in some easy-to-read
> > format (just which bot won, or an error code if one of the robots
> > bugged out, or something).
> >
> > Since the engine's been rewritten on a couple platforms, this doesn't
> > seem like an insurmountable task. Ideally, it'd be callable from
> > Linux, and happen fairly fast so I can run a bunch of battles for a
> > tournament.
> >
> > If this sounds interesting, let me know. I don't know what the going
> > rate for this kind of job is but if someone wants to take it on as a
> > small job for hire I'm open to that.
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Randall Munroe
> >
>
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