Yeah, I found the bots. They were made by Jerry and their names were were Cycling alga, Ursus herbivorus and Ursus lurker (there is also Ursus detrivorus, but that may have been my own patched-up bot).
Unfortunately, I can't get a good sim running. The bots are pretty inefficient in the first place and now everything goes dead in several thousand cycles. I tried to fix some things in the code, but only made it worse (blyeh, I suck at programming).
The idea is pretty cool though and I think exisitng bots can be modified just slightly to re-create what he attempted. Anyone interested?
Basic idea is like this: it is a "pond mode" sim. Veggies live on top, but come down (to about half-screen) to reproduce. There is a lot of veggies. There is a herbivore that eats veggies and runs from anything resembling a predator. There is a carnivore, a lurker, whose strategy is to sit tight between veggies and wait until a herbivore runs past - then it jumps and eats it. The whole thing was happening at the top of the sim with the bottom half empty, so I figured it would be good to turn the corpses on and have a bot that lives on the bottom and survives purely on eating corpses (ursus detrivorus).
The whole thing is designed as a non-evolving sim, just for fun of having a complete ecosystem. It would be a very fun default setting! He had some good ideas, I can elaborate if anyone wants to do that.
