New members of the Yahoo! Octi Club are welcome to join the ongoing ladder. Just drop me a line at octimon@..., and I'll add you to the list. Also, if...
We should probably pick a best time during the week to meet on line (or more than one, if no one time works for everybody). That way it will be easier to get a...
Oh, one more thing. There's a little bug in the native source code. If you start a game and a blank window comes up, maximize the window and then reduce it's...
Looks as though there will be a tournament for computer Octi programs this October ("Octi-ber") with a $1000 cash prize for the winner from GATCO. Before it's ...
For the 'man-inside-computer-problem', it can be solved either by heavy checking of the programming team, or by someone else running the program. Here, the ...
Wow, a thousand bucks! Expect my priorities to change RSN. (: What happened to the Octi prototype set? Are you going to hold onto that? I thought that was a ...
Yep, $1000 plus the first prototype (11 x 11, cherry & walnut pieces, a piece of art) for the winner. If you wouldn't mind asking someone at the ICC for ...
Stephen Tavener sent me a six-sided variant of Octi in "zillions of games" format. Rules are basically the same as Octi, but pieces move in any of six ...
Let's play on-line this Friday (which just happens to be my birthday) at 9:00 PM EST. I'll be goofing off most of that day, so if you'd like to play some...
Thanks to Aaron, who wrote a program to schedule games at Octi on-line. Now, when you enter Octi on-line through www.octi.net, you can post times when you're ...
Stephen Taventer has produced a new version of his zillions-of-games code for Octi and Hexi (six-sided Octi). Let me know if you'd like to test it out, and...
I posted the Hexi zip file at:<br><br><a href=http://www.octi.net/Hexi_6_28_00.zip target=new>http://www.octi.net/Hexi_6_28_00.zip</a><br><br>It's pretty cool...
Hi. I'm back from vacation and trying to draft a 'complete' set of tournament rules for the robot tournament. Below is the preliminary announcement (pretty...
1. For format, I think the only fair format would be round robin. This may be very time consuming though, but I think it should be preferred even if it means...
I'd recommend sticking with PCs (either running<br>Linux or NT as needed by the individual robots).<br>Cheaper machines in case one is dropped, and it<br>would...
Here's an excerpt from an email thread between myself and Octimon that I'm forwarding here. The quoted text is me, the reply is Octimon.<br><br>> 1. You ...
Pace, Charles, and others: how do you feel about restricting the platform to PCs? We don't have to go that route -- let me know what you'd like to have by way...
ubiquity is written in Java, which is theoretically platform-independent, so it theoretically shouldn't matter to me. (: Practically speaking, I'm developing...
Here are my opinions on the issues in question.<br>In general, I agree with Pace.<br><br><br>Platform:<br><br>I think entrants should be limited to a ...
Every strategy (and every program) has its flaws, so I think that a single elimination tournament would be unfair. A roundrobin would avoid such problems; if...
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