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
randall@...
Dec 23, 2008 10:19 pm
3185
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
3187
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
3188
... 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
3189
... 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
3190
... 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
randall@...
Jan 15, 2009 8:37 pm
3192
... 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
stephan@...
Jan 15, 2009 9:55 pm
3193
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
3194
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...
Stéphan Kochen
stephan@...
Jan 19, 2009 7:48 pm
3196
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...
Randall Munroe
randall@...
Jan 21, 2009 3:39 pm
3197
It looks like, to get a headless mode working, I should just skip the RoboWarX.GTK and instead make a new program that just instantiates an arena object using...
Randall Munroe
randall@...
Jan 21, 2009 5:02 pm
3198
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I was just rumaging around in my mailbox and found my old RoboWar folder. Is this group still active? Paul Olson On Oct 2, 2006, mark.wagner17@... wrote: ...
paul olson
paul_olson@...
Jul 3, 2009 6:56 pm
3201
I'm here. I did some work on a cool Robowar-related project later last year, and will probably do the rest of it soon. It might get the game some press. --...
Randall Munroe
randall@...
Jul 3, 2009 10:23 pm
3202
There is still a group. Not much activity to be seen though. I strangely still think about bot ideas from time to time, but am usually content to let them...
I'm still here but haven't done any coding for quite some time. Still got ideas though but as Camden says there isn’t much glory in fighting yourself. But...
My son Robert Hogg was very into RoboWar at one time. He is now a robotics engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab. He and I and three others have an iPhone...
Heh... I remember some of those old days. Robert had a flair for coming up with different ideas that seemed very simple and yet held a broad effectiveness. In...
Eric Foley
stiltman@...
Jul 6, 2009 8:03 pm
3206
I have a continuing but dormant interest in at some point more or less rewriting Robowar with Qt or something like that. I'm not under any illusions that...
... Actually, I think RoboWar could perhaps be done quite nicely in HTML5 using <canvas>. Would be interesting to try that. Responding here to Paul, the other...
I guess my take on the whole idea is... RoboWar as we knew it and loved it was a wonderful game, but as it was I think it was very much "played out". People...
Eric Foley
stiltman@...
Aug 15, 2009 6:09 am
3209
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http://code.google.com/p/robodrome/ There's still a lot of work to do (features, UI, code cleanup), but you can build robots, and they fight! There are...
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