I can ask Prfnoff about this tonight. I'll relay the answer here.

I don't feel confident enough to do much with the current code, such
as fill in the code for stunners or implement interrupts, but I may
poke around and see if I can implement command-line mode somehow.

-- Randall

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Stéphan Kochen <stephan@...> wrote:
> 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
>