The April 2002 Jrobots Challenge starts now. Remember that you can send your robots even in the course of the challenge, so you're never too late. The latest...
It's passed a long time from my last message, so I answer to this post of Mike directly on the mailing list. I hope it's not a problem for Mike (well, I had to...
... LB> On my Athlon 800 only the Team Mode is really slow and, during the LB> test phase, I use the time multiplicator. I think that the new clock LB>...
SUMMARY ... 1. April 2002 Jrobots Challenge Results http://jrobots.cfxweb.net 1. April 2002 Jrobots Challenge Results ... To read the final results visit the...
Hi there! Gee, things sometimes can be quite fascinating: A couple of days ago I had this fancy idea of setting up an arena where virtual robots could fight....
Thanks for the idea - when I was looking for an improved way to do the rankings, it seemed like somebody in the world would have encountered the problem...
The May 2002 Jrobots Challenge starts now. http://www.cfxweb.net/~jrobots Remember that you can send your robots even in the course of the challenge, so you're...
Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 8:30:15 AM, Alan wrote: AL> I don't know if you have looked at the "watch" utility I wrote, which AL> is available for download from...
From: "Alan Lund"Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 6:37 AM Subject: Re[2]: [javajousters] Ranking System ... Thank you, Alan! The new Watch utility works fine on my...
... SUMMARY ... 1. Next Contests Awards: Prizes and Rules 2. May 2002 Jrobots Challenge: Comments 3. Article about the use Neural Networks in Jrobots 4....
The June 2002 Jrobots Challenge starts now. Remember that you can send your robots even in the course of the challenge, so you're never too late. The latest...
IonStorm repeated the exploit of the May contest: it won the three categories of the June 2002 Jrobots Challenge and it is going to kill Jrobots, too ;-) You...
In a few hours you'll find in the Challenges page http://www.cfxweb.net/~jrobots/jjr_contests.shtml the results of the July 2002 Jrobots Challenge. In the...
... Nothing new about the "Western Front": IonStorm, Mouth, and OneEyedWillyII repeated their placings and Germ confirmed itself the fourth best robots in team...
Hello, My name is Jim Bourke. I wrote a simple robot called "Jimbo" some time ago. Recently I was reminded of Jrobots so I decided to update my "Jimbo" bot to...
From: "jtbourke" Sent: Wednesday, September 04, 2002 7:01 PM Subject: [javajousters] my thoughts on jrobots - returning after a long hiatus ... Well, maybe it...
I think some of the ideas put foward by jim are worth considering. With the current arena it is has reached a point where it is too hard for a beginner to...
Perhaps there should be two different levels of play. Once a bot wins the "novice" tournament it is forcibly moved up to the "advanced" tournament. That way...
Hi, Jim. Welcome back. I've included comments inline below... Wednesday, September 4, 2002, 12:01:21 PM, jtbourke wrote: j> The changes I propose are intended...
Thursday, September 12, 2002, 2:51:52 PM, jtbourke wrote: j> Another refinement I was thinking of to promote teamplay would be to j> assign each team a corner...
Hi to everybody! I'm happy to see jtbourke back, Jimbo was a very interesting robot and probably the first to introduce circular movements... with better...
... would ... be, ... Do ... I think the next robot I design will be open source because at some point someone has to give the newcomers the information they...
... and ... aiming, it ... I actually wrote a robot called Jimbo2 which I never uploaded in final form, but which would have done much better. But regardless,...
Ok, I'm amending my suggestions based on the input I've gotten. I propose two modes of play: Novice and Expert. The Novice mode will retain all the current...
Monday, September 16, 2002, 1:58:03 PM, jtbourke wrote: j> I think the next robot I design will be open source because at some j> point someone has to give the...
Monday, September 16, 2002, 12:16:55 PM, Walter wrote: WN> I would say that the hard part is making sure that when the guess WN> is right, you hit for a 10. If...
Hi there bot-people. As there has been discussion on how to ease the barrier of newcomers entering the game, I'd like give my view as a newcommer. Although my...
