On 19-01-09 17:30, Camden wrote:
> As for a sophisticated way of verifying, I'm not sure I can think of
one. But I think Kevin, Eric Foley, and I have a pretty intimate feel
for the mechanics since we were all reviewing the old mac source at
important points for the windows VB port. And others likely have as
well. I'd be happy to try to clarify any points you might have
questions about, though I'm honest enough with myself now to know I'm
not as interested in working as hands on on yet another rewrite. >.<

Most of the simulation mainloop code in the C# version has a pretty
clear resemblance to the original; I pretty much copy pasted and then
rewrote parts.

One thing I'm wondering about is the behavior of Random(). Both the
original and the C# version use whatever the system makes available, but
I doubt that's the same underlying implementation. Not sure if it should
be a focal point now, it's minor.

Maybe if I can get my hands on the C compiler used to compile the
original RoboWar, I could add some functionality to the original RoboWar
for writing a binary log of sorts to a file; take a snapshot at every
chronon. Rather like modern games record replays. Implementing the same
in the C# version would then allow me to compare the logs and pinpoint
where things don't match.

Know of a place where I can obtain that compiler? :)

-- Stéphan