On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [RobotZ]
>
> >Great idea! I could make it, I guess, but I can't say when it will be
> >finished, since I don't have so much spare time.
>
> > But please, send me exact
> >specifications on what the condition of an if-statement can be, and how the
> >radar can be used (or am I now asking just one question). Anyway, I think it
> >would be easy to make it hecto-multi-player (257 players at most,
> >simultaneously), by making use of joynet.
>
> 257? How did you cook up _that_ number? 255 or 256 or even 65536 :-) are
> numbers I could imagine, but 257?
All robots need a number and it should be not too many bits when
communicating. Therefore, you can have 256 external robots plus one for
the computer itself. You don't need to send the data of the robot that's
listening. It knows what it sent...
> > I'm coding something at the moment
> >so that implementing that will be easy. Anyway, were you planning to make the
> >enemy-robots computercontrolled or humancontrolled? Human would be more fun,
> >of course, but you can't always find a second player...
>
> So what? Can't you write two robot-programs? :-)
Hehe... It will be boring after a while. If you make the possibility to
play against the computer (not using joynet), you could also spread
robot-programs. It might even be possible to encode it, so that you can't
read the source to see how to beat it, but that would be quite hard.
> Another thing crossed my mind: Why develop a special programming language
> for the robot? The only reason for that could be that it's the only way
> to get more 'programs' running in parallel on _one_ MSX. But: if we take
> the game to JoyNet, as Shevek proposed, we only have to define the
> rules of the game (e.g. how the long and short range radar function,
> what happens if two robots want to get on the same playing field position)
> and the interface (how does each player receive / send its move).
> Then everyone can use his favorite programming language, and program his robot
> in the way (s)he likes. It saves us the definition and implementation of a new
> programming language and makes a killer app on JoyNet!
It is possible, of course, but how do you check if a language does not
cheat? Anyway, when I finish the game, I'll make the communication
protocol public, so everybody is free to make his/her own language. In a
contest you could demand the use of a certain one.
>
> Would make a heck of a competition game at a fair (wow!)...
Indeed.
>
> Eric
>
Bye,
shevek
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