D-Robots and Delphi Robot Rage

[Jim McKeeth]

The last session of CodeRage II (now FREE!) is the Delphi Robot Rage.
This is your opportunity to show off your amazing Delphi programming
skills. Download D-Robots and build your robot to compete in a Death
Match on the Light Plaza map against one or more robots created by other
participants. There will be amazing prizes (undisclosed as of yet), but
of course the best prize will be having your amazing programming skills
shown off to the world.

http://www.davinciunltd.com/code/delphi-robot-rage/

Requirements:

1. Robot must have unsecured source (no password, or password must
be provided), although the source will not be reviled until after the
challenge is completed.
2. If a unique skin is not used for your robot, then a new skin may
be assigned to your robot for visual identification.
3. Competition is open to everyone. No purchase necessary. Not
required to be in attendance at CodeRage II to enter or win, although
that is the best way to see the action!
4. Email your robot to me (***@davinciunltd.com), and I
will reply with acknowledgment. If I don’t reply, I didn’t receive it.

Deadline for submissions: November 26th, 2007 - midnight Pacific Time

Notice: There is an incompatibility between D-Robots and some video
drivers (maybe just ATI). No known work around. It does work in a
virtual machine, but your frame rate will be very poor.

If you submit your robot early enough, you might get some feedback from
a practice round.

Questions? Comments?

[Brion L. Webster]

The last session of CodeRage II (now FREE!) is the Delphi Robot Rage. This
is your opportunity to show off your amazing Delphi programming skills.
1. Robot must have unsecured source (no password, or password must be provided), although the source will not be reviled until after the challenge is completed.

So, if your programming skills aren't amazing, they'll be reviled? Is
this the start of the Delphi Daily WT... I mean, Code Horror, or whatever
they renamed it to? <g>

Shouldn't pick on typos, but it's just too funny.

[Jim McKeeth]

Ah, yes, thanks! It wouldn't be a news group post without a good typo,
but I guess it is accurate too, poor code will be reviled after the
challenge is completed. Although all code will be revealed then as well.

Post by Brion L. Webster

Post by Jim McKeeth
The last session of CodeRage II (now FREE!) is the Delphi Robot Rage.
This is your opportunity to show off your amazing Delphi programming
skills.
1. Robot must have unsecured source (no password, or password must be
provided), although the source will not be reviled until after the
challenge is completed.

So, if your programming skills aren't amazing, they'll be reviled? Is
this the start of the Delphi Daily WT... I mean, Code Horror, or
whatever they renamed it to? <g>
Shouldn't pick on typos, but it's just too funny.

[Marco Sangali]

I'm totally clueless of what this robot content is, I googled and found
nothing relevant. Do you have any links explaining it? It seems pretty
interesting.

TIA,
Marco

[Jim McKeeth]

Post by Marco Sangali
I'm totally clueless of what this robot content is, I googled and
found nothing relevant. Do you have any links explaining it? It seems
pretty interesting.

Download D-Robots from here:

http://www.davinciunltd.com/code/delphi-robot-rage/

then look at the example that comes with it. Let me know if you still
have questions after that.

[Marco Sangali]

Thanks. Already downloaded it and I'll take a look.

[Brad White]

Post by Jim McKeeth

Post by Marco Sangali
I'm totally clueless of what this robot content is, I googled and
found nothing relevant. Do you have any links explaining it? It seems
pretty interesting.

http://www.davinciunltd.com/code/delphi-robot-rage/
then look at the example that comes with it. Let me know if you still
have questions after that.

The interface is a tree view of matches with the robots in the match
as the children of the match.

What??

I suspect that the word 'interface' is overloaded here.
Is this something I care about. Why?
Where are the real instructions that I expected to be
in the Readme?

Thanks,
Brad.

[Jim McKeeth]

Post by Brad White
The interface is a tree view of matches with the robots in the match
as the children of the match.
What??
I suspect that the word 'interface' is overloaded here.
Is this something I care about. Why?
Where are the real instructions that I expected to be
in the Readme?

I'll write up some more detailed instructions tonight. You right click
to make a new robot. The interface is centered around running matches
with robots.

[Jim McKeeth]

I added a little intro video:

http://www.davinciunltd.com/code/delphi-robot-rage/

Check it out. This looks like it will be interesting.

You can also download the D-Robots IBE (Integrated Battle Environment)
which is all you need to build and test your robot.

-Jim McKeeth

[Brad White]

Post by Marco Sangali
I'm totally clueless of what this robot content is, I googled and found
nothing relevant. Do you have any links explaining it? It seems pretty
interesting.
TIA,
Marco

Here is a link that gives an overview of the concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Battle

d-robots1.2/Help/Help.htm has some info once you
extract the files. Looking at it in the zip file
makes it look empty.

HTH,
Brad.

[Jim McKeeth]

Post by Brad White
Here is a link that gives an overview of the concept.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Battle
d-robots1.2/Help/Help.htm has some info once you
extract the files. Looking at it in the zip file
makes it look empty.

Thanks for the good link.

[Jim McKeeth]

Link for more information:

http://www.davinciunltd.com/code/delphi-robot-rage/

[Jim McKeeth]

FYI, the robots are starting to come in from challengers, and they look
pretty good. A few prizes have been listed too, with more to come!

This is shaping up to be a great competition!

Here is a partial list of prizes:

* Components 4 Developers presents *kbmMW* Pro Edition, $399 US value
n-Tier architecture framework.
* SOCK (Specialists Of Computer Knowledge) Software presents
*CodeHealer*, $399 US value - Source code analysis and
verification tool for Delphi.
*SOCKShell*, $14.95 US value each for 3 licenses - Windows
Explorer context menu enhancer.
* TMS Software presents the *TMS Grid Pack*, a $180 US value
Includes TAdvStringGrid, TAdvColumnGrid, TAdvSpreadGrid,
TAdvGridExcelIO, TAdvGridRTFIO, TDBAdvGrid.

[Jim McKeeth]

The deadline has been extended on Delphi Robot Rage

http://www.DavinciUnltd.com/code/delphi-robot-rage/

Thursday morning at 10 AM pacific time.