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General => Off Topic => Topic started by: Numsgil on October 04, 2005, 12:29:07 PM

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: Numsgil on October 04, 2005, 12:29:07 PM

B.O.T.S. (http://botsgame.sourceforge.net/index.htm).  A C-Robot style sim.  Similar to Darwinbots in many ways.

I'm probably going to scour their source code to see how they did some things, what sorts of speed they're getting, etc.

I haven't looket at it yet (I'm in the library, totally can't install :().  If anyone sees anything in it that's cool that DB doesn't have, we should totally add it!  It mentions some bot debuggers, etc.

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: shvarz on October 04, 2005, 01:21:37 PM

Looks nice.  Fun to watch.  Fun to create environments.  Difficult to program - totally unaccesible to me.

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: Numsgil on October 04, 2005, 01:26:16 PM

That's the way most C-Robot-like programs are.  They like to use assembly (barf) because it's the most basic.

I like what the DB language is slowly becoming.  A great big mish-mash of complex and simple commands.

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: Botsareus on October 04, 2005, 06:53:12 PM

Hmmm, must be reduced assembly so it wont start crashing antivirus softwear or sutch... I got to take a look.

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: Numsgil on October 04, 2005, 06:57:29 PM

Well, it's not running on the computer.  The bots are running in their own protected virtual environment.  Same with our bots.  Letting programs battle in your real computer sounds scary.

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: Botsareus on October 04, 2005, 07:11:45 PM

nope, no mutation or reproduction.

Thats not even real assembly , it only has the feel of assembly.

Title: B.O.T.S
Post by: Numsgil on October 04, 2005, 10:17:19 PM

It's a different path.  DB took the idea of C-Robots and turned it into an ALife sim.  They took it (and others like them) along the path of virtual environment for programming battles.

Both are legitimate.