Re:Core War
by zorkian on Friday February 11, 2022 @11:26PM
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Core Wars was great!
I spent a good amount of time in the late 90s writing little bots for a similar game, AT-Robots, where you write an assembly type language to program a little laser-shooting robot that could drive around, scan for enemies, etc.
Anyway, I loved this kind of thing as a teenager. I felt it really helped me to fall in love with programming and the ability to make things happen by writing code.
Re:Core War
by RHSeeger on Saturday February 12, 2022 @12:42AM
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There was a fun PC game called Omega [1] where you earned resources to build a tank and then programmed it to win combat; which earned you more resources. It was a great game. It had it's own programming language, iirc.
I spent a good amount of time in the late 90s writing little bots for a similar game, AT-Robots, where you write an assembly type language to program a little laser-shooting robot that could drive around, scan for enemies, etc.
http://necrobones.com/atrobots/
And my best robot: http://necrobones.com/pub/atrobots/robots/unlocked/mj6.at2
Anyway, I loved this kind of thing as a teenager. I felt it really helped me to fall in love with programming and the ability to make things happen by writing code.