developer = Toby Smith publisher = Blue Cow Software designer = Toby Smith Charlie Moylan engine = released = 1991 genre = Programming game modes = Single player ratings = platforms = Mac OS media = requirements = input =
"Robot Battle" is a programming game developed in 1991 by Blue Cow Software for the Apple Macintosh where players design and code adaptable battling robots. Its idea is similar to the newer Windows game of the same name. The concept of the game was invented by Toby Smith in a BASIC program "when people with 512K of RAM and two floppy drives were power-users", as he states in the game manual.
The game consists of a battleground and two robots. Before the game starts, each robot is preprogrammed using a BASIC-like language called RIPPLE ("Robot Instructional Programming Language"). 0–99 humans can also be placed into the battleground to throw the robots with hand grenades. The programs are checked for syntax and the game starts. The robot to survive the longer is the winner.
The RIPPLE language programs consist of logic commands, such as flow of control statements; and action commands, that actually make the robot perform an action, such as fire a weapon. To perform one action command takes the same time as to perform 99 logic commands.
An example RIPPLE program:equip 1 1 0 0 0 435let h = 0
10 humanscan 020 if range > 0 then gosub 100030 if YCOORD < 8 then gosub 200040 swivel 1050 goto 10
1000 zap1010 zap1020 return
2000 if HEADFACING > 315 then gosub 3000if HEADFACING < 45 then gosub 3000return
3000 if h <> 1 then launchif h <> 1 then let h = 1return
External links
* [ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mac/games/robobattle11.sit Demo version of Robot Battle] as a StuffIt archive in FUNET's FTP archive of old Macintosh games
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