The latest (and hopefully final) beta version of RoboWar II is now available at http://www.geocities.com/robowar2/ I've added support for tournaments, fixed a...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner17@...
May 11, 2002 2:04 am
1965
An error to report :o/ When I open up some robots, start a battle, close some robots, open some robots, start a battle, I get the following error for all the...
... From: Ed <edz@...> ... Which robots? What is the current setting for "Max hardware points"? That message indicates that a robot has either...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner17@...
May 12, 2002 2:36 am
1967
... That ... Any robots it seems. Max hardware is set at 10000 whenever I start up RW2. Setting this to another value (e.g. 50 or 21) still gives the error....
... From: Ed <edz@...> ... I can't duplicate it. After you get the error message, what is "max hardware" set to? -- Mark Wagner...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner17@...
May 13, 2002 5:58 am
1969
... some ... RW2. ... IIRC max hardware kept being set to a different (seemingly random) value after the error. I would investigate further but I've just...
Or just try botbattle.com ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com...
... From: Ed <edz@...> ... more ... a ... the ... I've fixed the bug. I still don't know what exactly was causing it, though. -- Mark...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner17@...
May 20, 2002 2:51 am
1972
This is it, the real thing: RoboWar II version 1.0. Currently, only the Windows version is available, but I expect to have a Linux version available in a few...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner17@...
May 20, 2002 5:34 am
1973
I've been thinking about how to update the RoboWar graphics to reflect what modern games are like, and what modern computers are capable of. The idea I came...
Mark Wagner
mark.wagner17@...
Jul 29, 2002 2:47 am
1974
... Hey, if someone is willing to do it, I say go for it! After hearing nothing on this mailing list for months I figured it was the end of RoboWar. Maybe 3D...
... Yeah, the last message I got was something about some other game that was better, so i figured everyone but me had switched... If you decide to go for 3D,...
Theo Nean Donly
theo_nean_donly@...
Aug 3, 2002 5:45 am
1976
Hello! A Java course bootstrapped me into the Java world this year. I have some free time before university courses kick back in october. So I might help ...
Kolargol double zero
kolargol00@...
Aug 3, 2002 10:28 am
1977
... Just let me know how I can help!. 'xxxxxxxxx Fortune Assists the Daring xxxxxxxxx'...
... It was much discussed after either T20 or 19 (can't remember which), but knowledge of past battles is only recorded in History, and History is reset ...
Theo Nean Donly
theo_nean_donly@...
Aug 3, 2002 9:50 pm
1980
wow, things were so quite for such a long time on this list I was begining to wonder if anyone was still out there. -I think 3D is a great idea for robowar....
If someone is willing to run a massive 1000x1000 tournament, I'd be glad to participate. I don't have any robots (RWI or II) that use history, but I would be...
I disagree with the assertion the use of history in 'normal' sized tournaments is unfair or inconsistent. In a few battles you can get enough information from...
Matt Burkholder
mattburk@...
Aug 5, 2002 1:45 pm
1983
... Yes, Actually, that was one of the reasons I started working with Lucas Dixon on the Java version on which work has stopped since Lucas dropped off the...
Anyone interested in the source code for the unfinished Java version, email me personally and I will send it to them as an attachment. Cheers, -- Sam Rushing ...
... Kind of a cool idea. How would you 'win' as a programmer? Whoever ends up with the most of their code in the champion? Matt...
Matt Burkholder
mattburk@...
Aug 7, 2002 1:24 pm
1987
... Well... I had kind of thought you would breed a bot and then send it to a traditional no-breeding tournament. Basically, I was looking for a way to avoid...
I had an idea that might make life a little easier on history based robots. The biggest problem that a robot which tries to "learn" from previous battles, and...
... But, for one thing, what is a normal sized tournament? The old ones were maybe 10x10 at most, the new ones atleast 100x100... Until a "set tournament...
Theo Nean Donly
theo_nean_donly@...
Aug 8, 2002 11:03 pm
1990
... True, if a bot's history registers were saved after every battle in the bot's document file, then we could actually develop bots with AI that learned from...
The idea of storing the raw data and reintegrating it as another data type is ingenious almost like a remembrance algorithm. store, recall, reintegrate ...
Alright, here it is, the first ever tournament encouraging history, HT1. Submissions are due by December 15th, which gives you 3 months to scrap something...
Theo Nean Donly
theo_nean_donly@...
Sep 16, 2002 4:12 pm
1993
What are the current tounrement rules? Where is the website? Thanks, - Bryce...