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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
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.tandy

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. ThatrCOs pathetic. A lame 44 year old game with a little blob on the screen? ThatrCOs a rCLrobotrCY to control?

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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.tandy

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. ThatrCOs pathetic. A lame 44 year old game with a little blob on the screen? ThatrCOs a rCLrobotrCY 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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