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+ - RobotWar: A Tournament of Programming-> 0

Submitted by Faust7 on Monday February 06, 2012 @02:15PM

Faust7 writes "In the rarified world of programming games, Silas Warner's RobotWar for the Apple II (originally for CDC's PLATO system) is a classic. Using a stripped-down language even simpler than BASIC, you would construct primitive AIs to win battles against other primitive AIs. Computer Gaming World, at the time, went so far as to sponsor tournaments of the game. Blogger Jimmy Maher will resurrect such a tournament if sufficient interest demonstrates that RobotWar isn't too kludgy or archaic for a modern technical audience. I say have at it!"
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Comment: Re:Imagine a future.... (Score 1) 580

by Faust7 on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @07:24PM (#29359239) Attached to: Apple Pulls C64 Emulator From the App Store

The only way this could be better is if it were the Apple II environment. A belated triumph of Woz over Jobs.

Comment: 20% of Maya sales are Mac (Score 3, Informative) 628

by Faust7 on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:33AM (#18606091) Attached to: Apple Ships 8-Core MacPro

Yes, Maya is on the Mac - but you'll be hard-pressed to find many companies using Maya on said Mac.

http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:pfgF8E0i5C8J:w ww.macworld.co.uk/news/index.cfm%3FNewsID%3D14619+ macworld+maya+mac+sales+autodesk&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd= 1&gl=us

20% of Maya sales are the Mac version, according to Autodesk. (Google cache since Macworld UK is apparently down.)