I wouldn't mind having a look, even collaborating with you on making it
when/if you have some time. You can use email to send me code if it's not
too big, otherwise, send me a link that looks like
http://www.bates.id.au/rubots-0.0.zip


"Tim Bates" <tim / bates.id.au> wrote in message
news:40A655DE.4040902 / bates.id.au...
> Dave Burt wrote:
> > A thread starting at (ruby-talk:21131) suggests a Ruby version of this.
In
> > fact, RAA lists Rubots as a project that was started in December 2002 by
Tim
> > Bates, but never progressed.
> >
> > If Tim's still around, I wonder if he's got any code lying around. If
not, I
> > may just start trying to hack something up that mirrors Robocode fairly
> > closely - it seems to me (a Ruby nuby, admittedly) a fairly good design
to
> > start with.
>
> Yeah, I'm still here, lurking. Haven't had time to do anything serious
> with Ruby for a while, to my chagrin. Rubots is one of those things I've
> been meaning to come back to, as one does, particularly now I have a bit
> more Ruby experience under my belt. As for code, most of what I have is
> merely skeleton code that outlines my design - nothing functional, which
> is maybe part of the reason I've not been enthused to pick it up again
yet.
>
> You're welcome to a copy of what I've done if you like; I did a fair bit
> of research into how best to quarantine the robo code from the
> surrounding framework which you might find useful. I'm not particularly
> proud of the rest of it though, and would probably start again from
> scratch if and when I took another look at it.
>
> I agree that it would make a good way of introducing people to the
> language, and this was one of the goals behind the original project. Now
> that I see there is some interest, I may be inclined to take another
> look at it, but as I'm drawing towards the end of the semester, not
> right now. You know how it is.
>
> Tim.
>
> -- 
> Tim Bates
> tim / bates.id.au
>
>