From: rars-d-request@lysator.liu.se Subject: rars-d Digest V97 #28 X-Loop: rars-d@lysator.liu.se X-Mailing-List: archive/volume97/28 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: rars-d@lysator.liu.se Reply-To: rars@lysator.liu.se (Rars mailing-list) ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain rars-d Digest Volume 97 : Issue 28 Today's Topics: Re: Websites again Re: Websites again Re: Running older robots Hello again! ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 11:41:50 +0200 (EET) From: Maido Remm To: rars@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Websites again Message-Id: <199703190941.LAA12969@ebc.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > I lost the email addresses of those people who volunteer websites to > test my version of javarars. Could you please email me or the list > if you are prepared to donate time and disk space. > > I am seriously thinking of designing a decent RARS page, mainly because the difficulties with our ftp.ijs.com server. I am planning to put there downloadable tracks and robots and their descriptions. There will be room for anybody who wish to send their own HTML or java section. Regds, Maido Remm, mremm@ebc.ee ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:19:14 +0100 From: "Torben Thellefsen" To: rars@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Websites again Message-Id: <199703191117.MAA13774@icl.icl.dk> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > I am seriously thinking of designing a decent RARS page, mainly > because the difficulties with our ftp.ijs.com server. I am planning to > put there downloadable tracks and robots and their descriptions. There > will be room for anybody who wish to send their own HTML or java > section. Sounds VERY good! I have a friend who's interested in taking up RARS, and it would've been nice to just point him at one site and say: "There, that site has it all (almost) and links to the rest". I've given him a couple of http addresses, the mailinglist and ftp.ijs.com (with a note of advising him to check out /incoming as well). Let me know if you need help or advice - I'd be happy to help, although my schedule is a bit tighter than I really like :-/ - Torben -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.12 d- s:+>: a- C++$ UL++(++++) P L++ E--->+ W+(++)$ N+ !o !K w--$ O++ !M !V PS+ PE Y+ PGP->++ t !5 X@ !R tv+ b+(++) DI(+) D++ G>+++ e++ h--- r++ y? ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 01:09:02 +0100 (MET) From: bm321465@muenchen.org (Henning Klaskala) To: rars@lysator.liu.se Subject: Re: Running older robots Message-Id: <199703200009.BAA00296@henkhost.muenchen.org> Content-Type: text Maido Remm wrote: > Also, has anybody tested an old unsupported robot Phase2? It is claimed to > be faster than anybody else, i tried it but it did not move after start. phase2.dat contains the strings s1, s2 and fourmile. Maybe it can work only on those 3 tracks? Actually I got it to work only on fourmile (solo speed: 98.96). On s1 and s2 it started well, but didn't survive one lap. Henning ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 21:36:13 +0000 From: Robert Wilderspin To: rars@lysator.liu.se Subject: Hello again! Message-ID: <858896415.0521583.0@feverish.demon.co.uk> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Whew, it's been a while since I've been in the RARS "scene" (and that was only for a month or two...). For those with long memories, I wrote the arse-kicking midget by the name of RW, which was entered for all of one race. Anyone remember me? Anyone at all?! [sigh] Oh well. RARS has caught my attention again, partly because I'll probably be doing a final-year degree project based on it, developing a driver with GAs and the like. That won't be for a while yet, but I'd like to know what the current goings-on are. If you don't mind, I've got a few questions. :-) I assume that RARS2 still isn't out yet? Is anyone still developing RARS2 at all? Or even RARS 1 for that matter? Ah, I've just noticed a reference to JavaRARS... Is this going to be a straight port of the current version to Java to start with, same physics and everything, or is it going to have different stuff in it? I noticed that /incoming at ftp.ijs.com has a Visual C version of RARS there, but that doesn't seem to be very useful yet for developing a car. Although it's based on 0.65b, the car times it produces are different to my DOS 0.65b times, and the display is, to be kind, still in beta. No offense, Greg, it's a brilliant start, but are you still working on it? I love the idea of having cars as DLLs though. Nice one. :-) Um, do many people still compete? Have the rules changed much in the last six months for entrants? When I last looked the idea of different classes was all the rage, with <400 character cars in one division, <5000 in another, and one for unlimiteds (or something similar). I can't think of much else to ask, really. I'll do a project on RARS whether it's still run as a competition or not, but I'd like to see it still going strong. Thanks, rob. -------------------------------- End of rars-d Digest V97 Issue #28 **********************************