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Darwinbots3 / New bot shape
« on: May 02, 2008, 01:13:58 PM »
Hi nums,

This is probably the ultimate alife body form: http://www.io.com/~spofford/ . Now, not only will the bots' programs evolve, but their bodies will too. Try out the program!

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Newbie / Evolution sims
« on: May 02, 2008, 01:03:52 PM »
Anybody else make a really long-lasting evosim? I'm thinking of doing something like this: http://www.stauffercom.com/alife/  . Any other neat evolved organisms? Also, maca, how did you evolve the spiderbot?

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Darwinbots3 / Release date
« on: April 30, 2008, 11:10:13 AM »
Hi nums,

go to getpclinuxos.com . It is an extremely good, extremely easy linux distro, so just install it on a tiny partition of your hard-drive or on an emulator, or on a thumbdrive, and problem solved. Also, isn't java like THE_MOST_PORTABLE_LANGUAGE_EVER? No matter what machine you're on, java will run with no modifications. With C#, though, it sounds like you have to actually work to make it portable.

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Darwinbots3 / Release date
« on: April 29, 2008, 06:00:40 PM »
Also, maybe the best thing about Java is that it can run in your browser. Imagine being able to try-out DB without downloading it, or using an account system to save your sim and look at it and continue running it at the library, just by logging in. You can't do that with c#.

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Darwinbots3 / Release date
« on: April 27, 2008, 10:37:39 PM »
But Ericl, if you aren't going to port DB to another language, why does it say that DB3 will be in C#? And why will you be doing DB 2.5 in C++?

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Darwinbots3 / Release date
« on: April 27, 2008, 05:26:12 PM »
Quote from: goffrie
The current version of Darwinbots is in VB, Darwinbots 2.5 is in C++, and version 3 is in C#, IIRC. Confusing.

Why change the language so many times? Just use Java for 2.5, 3, and everything after that. Java is popular, easy, has tons of built-in GUI stuff, and will give you compilation errors ALL THE TIME to let you know when you're doing something that might give you a semantic error (aka code is less buggy). However, C, for example, is hard, has no GUI stuff, and will let you access the 5,000th element of a 200-element-long array.

Sorry for the rant.  

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Darwinbots3 / Release date
« on: April 26, 2008, 03:55:49 PM »
When will DB3 be released? It won't take years, will it?

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Newbie / Evolution sims
« on: April 26, 2008, 03:39:32 PM »
Hey TL, how exactly did you evolve that spider-bot?

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Newbie / multi cpu
« on: April 25, 2008, 07:36:31 PM »
Quote from: Numsgil
... But you can run an instance of DB for each processor you have, and each instance will properly utilize a single processor.

How difficult is that? Just open up two windows of darwinbots?

Also, will DB3 take advantage of two processors?

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Newbie / multi cpu
« on: April 25, 2008, 05:00:19 PM »
Quote from: Numsgil
Darwinbots can't run on more than one core at a time.
...
With a dual core system, DB will take up 50% of each processor.


Sorry, don't mean to be argumentative, or maybe it's just me, but I'm confused- will it run faster on a dual-core computer or not?

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Newbie / Evolution sims
« on: April 25, 2008, 04:40:58 PM »
Quote from: Testlund
I ran an evosim from January or February to october last year, started out with one zerobot species.

I thought no zerobots had ever evolved conditional logic, hence the current contest.
What interesting behaviors did your bots evolve?

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Newbie / Evolution sims
« on: April 25, 2008, 03:17:02 PM »
What is the longest that anybody here has ever run an ecosim? Has an evobot ever come close to being able to out-compete a hand-made bot?

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Newbie / Evolution sims
« on: April 24, 2008, 08:01:17 PM »
Hi everyone,

What is the usual outcome of an evosim? From reading other's posts, I get the feeling that bots end up regressing after "evolution", until they are unable to eat. Is there any way to escape this fate? Thank you!

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Newbie / Newb questions
« on: April 24, 2008, 07:55:36 PM »
Hi everyone,

Is there any way to get DB running on linux or macs? My computer isn't very fast (that's why it's running linux), so running DB in a windows simulator is out of the question. Can I run DB without showing everything on the screen (to make it faster)? Thanks!

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