OK, critics <g> I've added the source for the random AI program to the zip file at egroups/atlantisdev, I have not had time to do anything to it, so rather...
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Pete Christie
stabliser@...
Oct 3, 2000 8:29 pm
I keep thinking that it would be good to change all the 'character' of the game for a different one and the world that keeps coming to mind is 'Ledgends of the...
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ido
nili1@...
Oct 4, 2000 9:25 am
good idea basicly . and now for the tearing of strips .. from a quick look here are a few problems . 1. WorkTax procedure : faction War 5 magic 1 ?? 2. forming...
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House of Tzarg (176)
tzarg@...
Oct 4, 2000 11:04 am
Has anyone noticed this memory leak yet? In army.cpp: Army::Army(Unit * ldr,AList * locs,int regtype,int ass) { ... soldiers = new SoldierPtr[count]; ... } but...
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Lepard@...
Oct 4, 2000 3:44 pm
<-CAUTION BEGINNER ALERT-> Can anyone tell me how to return the maximum size of the world in x and y. <-END BEGINNER ALERT->...
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Pete Christie
stabliser@...
Oct 5, 2000 9:42 pm
Ouch, ouch, ouch <g> Well the last thing you said is perhaps the first thing I should address - Pascal. Is it the general concensus that if I continued with...
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Doug Law
dlaw@...
Oct 6, 2000 5:14 am
Hi I was trying to compile the standard version of atlantis 4.0.4 under DOS using the DJGPP port of gcc. I got the following result: ...
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ido bach
nili1@...
Oct 6, 2000 5:59 am
yep , c++ can be nice . though i suspect the truely good Bots can only be made by the VS languages . such as VC++ or VB6 . since it will be easyer to phrase or...
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Anthony Briggs
abriggs@...
Oct 6, 2000 1:54 pm
... Well, it's not that obvious to *me* that you should stop. If you're interested in learning to program, C++ is a horrible language to start with. Even C...
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Jamie Reid
jamiereid@...
Oct 6, 2000 2:07 pm
What about Java ? You get all the best bits of C++ and avoid the worst (pointers), its multi platform and the SDK and reasonable environments are free ? Jamie ...
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JT
jtraub@...
Oct 6, 2000 3:45 pm
... While all of that is true, it's also a memory and resource hog. While I like Java, I would recommend against it as a language to write anything you...
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Pete Christie
stabliser@...
Oct 6, 2000 9:13 pm
OK, since I dont neccessarily know the merits of the various language options open to me, I'll set some of my criteria. 1) I want a small executable. 2) I want...
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JT
jtraub@...
Oct 6, 2000 9:42 pm
... Based on those, I would suggest either C or Perl. Perl will be a bit slower than C, but nowhere near the overhead of a Java VM. You will have to do more...
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Jamie Reid
jamiereid@...
Oct 6, 2000 10:39 pm
I'd still vote for Java ( though I'm biased ) - small executable ( if you exclude the VM!) quick ( you get an overhead with Java yes but the advantages outway...
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JT
jtraub@...
Oct 6, 2000 11:47 pm
... I used to be. I've done quite a bit of Java work though, which has changed my biases the other direction. I'd actually recommend python over Perl, but...
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Lucas de Jonge
Lucas.Dejonge@...
Oct 8, 2000 8:12 pm
I think we will have to stop the language wars thread soon, but... I have programmed for many years in C, C++, VB, Java, Fortran, Cobol, Ada and Perl. I came...
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JT
jtraub@...
Oct 8, 2000 9:26 pm
... Yeah, probably. ... I definately agree. Python is my language of choice for simple scripts as well. ... Speed and memory usage probably aren't a huge...
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Veliq
DFVeliq@...
Oct 8, 2000 9:57 pm
I just wanted to state that I would like to see this thread continued as opposed to taken into private. I may not have anything to say regarding this...
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terry cleaton
terry_cleaton@...
Oct 9, 2000 1:05 pm
Veliq wrote ... always ... world. ... That's all very well, V, but people subscribe to this group for other things, it is becoming an irritation to me having...
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Jamie Reid
jamiereid@...
Oct 9, 2000 2:38 pm
Surely it is relevant ? We are discussing a Atlantis development issue (although bogged down on one small issue I grant you !) I would say it is quite...
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Lucas de Jonge
Lucas.Dejonge@...
Oct 9, 2000 8:26 pm
My last word on this list on this subject, all further correspondence in private. Choosing and using a language to work in is based on many factors, and every...
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Lucas de Jonge
Lucas.Dejonge@...
Oct 9, 2000 8:37 pm
One of my players suggested that an option to include could be bullocks. After all, livestock has been used for quite sometime for transporting things, in this...
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Johnston, Scott
sjohnston@...
Oct 10, 2000 2:41 pm
OK, Im sorry but I couldnt resist, I made a little bot program. It is by no way perfect, in fact it doesnt even have much error checking so it is possible to...
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Pete Christie
stabliser@...
Oct 13, 2000 9:58 am
Maybe I'm about to learn something about ROCs but in this battle why didnt the ROC die after it was killed ? nb. This was from an atlantis+ test game Anybody...
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Depauw Nicolas (dwn)
nicolas.depauw@...
Oct 13, 2000 10:08 am
As you have seen ROC has 15 hits, so i think that when the massage says killing 1, the ROC has 14 hits left. Perhaps Atlantis needs to change this with a...
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House of Tzarg (176)
tzarg@...
Oct 13, 2000 1:24 pm
... correspondence in private. ... leave that pretty much to other people, so I can't really help you there, but if I had to do it, I would consider a two...
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House of Tzarg (176)
tzarg@...
Oct 13, 2000 1:35 pm
Without this fix, atlantis will trash the memory immediately following wherever the regions array is allogated, which could cause unpredictable results. ...
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House of Tzarg (176)
tzarg@...
Oct 13, 2000 1:57 pm
... Sorry, Pete, but I don't know what you're talking about, unless it's Myamoto Musashi's Book of 5 Rings. Anyway, I've just been looking at names for a new...
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Lucas de Jonge
Lucas.Dejonge@...
Oct 15, 2000 9:35 pm
Thanks for that - I use gcc almost exclusively, and I didn't know about these bugs - this is the advantage of portability! I love gcc - it vtable speed is...
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Maxx
mshariy@...
Oct 16, 2000 1:46 am
Actually, atlantis has a number of memory allocation problems. One is list destructor failing in many places since list is already deallocated somewhere else....
