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Re: Color Robot Battle Programming Tournament

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On 6/14/2025 9:15 PM, Nick Charles wrote:
> John Metcalf <digital.wilderness@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There's a Color Robot Battle tournament at the Retro Computer Festival on
>> 10th Nov and everyone is welcome to enter, whether or not you attend the
>> event.
>>
>> Rules:
>>
>> 1) no pacifist robots
>> 2) robots must use at least one random condition
>> 3) please give your robot a name
>> 4) robots will battle round-robin
>> 5) entries will be published after the event
>> 6) deadline 8th Nov
>>
>> More info about Color Robot Battle:
>>
>>   * https://corewar.co.uk/colorrobotbattle.htm
>>
>> Entries can be sent by email to digital.wilderness at googlemail, thanks
>>
> 
> Wow.   That’s pathetic.   A lame 44 year old game with a little blob on the
> screen?    That’s a “robot” to control?
> 

Hi, you are posting on comp.sys.tandy on Usenet. Usenet is from 1980. 
Tandy hasn't made a computer since 1993, their computer wing being sold 
to AST that year. I have no idea what you're expecting here. Anything 
posted here is going to probably be about something 32 years old at a 
minimum.

Yes, the graphics on a game from 1981 are simple. That should be no 
surprise.

Additionally the post you're replying to is from last November and the 
event it was posting about is also long over.

As for the original post itself, I, for one, think it was a good idea.

I went to CocoFest in 2023 and there wasn't a lot of fun things to do on 
the floor - I played some flight simulator on a Coco 3 and talked to a 
few people. It was interesting, but if I had been given the opportunity 
to really sit down and play a proper game I would have jumped at it. A 
tournament at an event like that is at least something interesting.

I don't know if it was posted in other places, I sure hope it was. It's 
kind of dead around here.

Is devotion to old computers and games 'pathetic'? Perhaps. It doesn't 
really advance anything in the real world.

But people have all sorts of hobbies that produce nothing useful. I'd 
argue watching sports, collecting, any sort of fandom, et cetera,  are 
all useless hobbies that are 'pathetic' by that standard.

We're all just doing things that entertain us and there's no need to put 
other people down just because you don't feel the same way about the 
same things.

In short, be polite, there's literally no reason not to be.


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