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From: stevem@hpvcla.HP.COM (Steve Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Robot war tournament
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Date: Mon, 6-Jul-87 12:37:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  6 12:37:36 1987
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I am writing a version of Robot War for the Mac.  The language will be
identical to the Apple ][ version but I am open to any ideas to enhancements.
One area that I will be improving will be the speed of execution of
instructions.  One problem I always encountered is that the number of
instructions per second executed on the Apple ][ was so low that it limited
the variety of algorithms and strategies that could be effectively used.
In other words, robots had to be more like Rambo, mostly shooting but very
little thinking (just simple cleaver strategies).

I have completed the editor (multi-window, multi-file), compiler (200 lines
per second!), file system, and CPU interpreter so far.  Now comes the hard
part, the battlefield simulator and graphics.

Steven Miller