Solution to our problems? Â IMO I'm still the best for the job. And I could be even better. Â I absolutely loved coding RoboWar. But since my professional...
... Hash: SHA1 Hello all, Kevin of the RoboWar5 project on SourceForge managed to find me on MSN. He urged me to show him my work, so I decided to drop what I...
... Hash: SHA1 Hello again, I've spent a lot more time working on this than planned, and now there's a new version available. The download location is the same...
hi, i recently downloaded the robowar 5. i went through the tutorial in the help menu. i am just a beginner, so i guess doubts wont sound silly. * i could not...
... Hash: SHA1 ... A robot gains 2 energy every chronon, but never exceeds it's maximum energy. ... The RoboWar site on SourceForge contains most of the...
Of course you can always run a tournament. If you want to call it an "Official" tournament, though, that might be another matter, depending on whether your...
Long-time reader, very infrequent poster. One of the things that prevented me from playing with RoboWar again was the fact that it was never updated on the Mac...
Perhaps to make this fun we could find some kind of theme for bots to adhere to? Something to spurn some creativity. Any ideas for something fun? Proud...
Dismayed that, beyond the Yahoo group and the SourceForge webpage, there just isn't a very good central resource for RoboWar, So I've decided to start a wiki...
Impressive work ideed! Is there any possibility that everything the user need can be put into one installation file? Suppose we do not concearn ourselves with...
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...
Does this means that the game is still alive? I'm sort of surprised ^^ Ohh bye the way Randall you write a nice comic, it is sort of adictive... /Viktor...
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...
Not two days ago I started thinking about Robowar for the first time in a while. Damn universal mind. *kick* Given how sparce RW has been, I've thinking of...
I think I remember someone about 1.5 years ago posting that they had rebuilt RW exactly as you describe, with no graphics or sound or anything, but command...
Camden: That would be awesome. Do let me know if you find anything -- I just spent a while on the phone with Prfnoff seeing if he could put together a copy of...
Randall Munroe
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Dec 23, 2008 10:19 pm
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Pre-script: I believe what I might have been remembering was Stéphan Kochen's message 3122, which had the compiler running from the command line, but it looks...
... Kochen's message 3122, which had the compiler running from the command line, but it looks like the tournament utility wasn't fully functional yet. Hmm......
Stéphan Kochen
stephan@...
Jan 14, 2009 7:16 am
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If anyone can get me the source for either of these, I will sit down with some programmers and try to do the remaining work that's needed. I'm excited right...
Randall Munroe
randall@...
Jan 14, 2009 4:34 pm
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... Having more people chip in does make it exciting. :) How are you planning to work on this? Is your sit-down an offline or online thing? If it's an offline...
Stéphan Kochen
stephan@...
Jan 14, 2009 4:59 pm
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... Well, I have a couple offline friends who might be interested in taking a look, but I don't know how I'm doing this yet. It sort of depends on how much...
Randall Munroe
randall@...
Jan 14, 2009 9:51 pm
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... Me neither. I'm more casually interested; I am excited to see people jumping in on getting the game back alive again. In reality, I have precious little ...
... Excellent! I have mono, but I'm not actually sure how to go about compiling anything that doesn't come with a neat Makefile. ... Okay, so from your list,...
Randall Munroe
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Jan 15, 2009 8:37 pm
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... There's a MonoDevelop solution included. You can either use MonoDevelop, or if you use something else, it looks like "mdtool build" does a complete build...
Stéphan Kochen
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Jan 15, 2009 9:55 pm
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Replying to self. :) As a starting point, a Google Code project has been created. You can find it at: http://code.google.com/p/robowarx/ I've checked in the...
Stéphan Kochen
stephan@...
Jan 18, 2009 4:40 pm
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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...
... 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...