...at (Anton Ertl) wrote Re: Asteroids playing contest On pages 176-179 of ...is a description of how the Asteroids Arcade game (from 1979) works, ...for competetition-loving Forth programmers. The contest runs until June 30. The winner...top 25 entries. Obviously, a perfect-playing program is possible in at least...this direction too. (But then chess playing also has this real time aspect...

....at (Anton Ertl) wrote Re: Asteroids playing contest On pages 176-179 of c'...there is a description of how the Asteroids Arcade game (from 1979) works, and a contest for writing a program to play the game. For ...task for competetition-loving Forth programmers. The contest runs until June 30. The winner of... top 25 entries. Obviously, a perfect-playing program is possible in at least ...

mhx@iae.nl (Marcel Hendrix) writes: Obviously, a perfect-playing program is possible in at least two ways. Can you elaborate on... drawing looks simple and anyway, it isn't really needed to play and win the game :-) I guess that the MAME server presents the output graphically in addition to sending it to the playing program. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/...

....com> writes: Do you actually have a link for the contest? <http://www.heise.de/ct/creativ/08/02/details/> (in German) For the ROM image of Asteroids they suggest registering for the contest, and they will send it to you per email (with the...++ than in German, you can also interpret the simple C++ playing program that they provide. - anton -- M. Anton Ertl http://www...

...9/2008 there is a description of how the Asteroids Arcade game (from 1979) works, and a contest for writing a program to play the game. For this they have adapted MAME ... interesting task for competetition-loving Forth programmers. The contest runs until June 30. The winner of the ... Do you actually have a link for the contest? Tried googling but no joy. Not that I...

... of c't 9/2008 there is a description of how the Asteroids Arcade game (from 1979) works, and a contest for writing a program to play the game. For this they have adapted MAME to take its input ... This might be an interesting task for competetition-loving Forth programmers. The contest runs until June 30. The winner of the competition wins some hardware...