1. ROBOT WARFARE 1 - GAME BY E-MAIL
  1.1 INTRODUCTION
  1.2 GAMERS
  1.3 ELECTRONIC ADDRESSES, MAIL-LIST
  1.4 REQUESTING BY E-MAIL

2. COMPETITION RULES
  2.1 COMPETITION CONDUCT
  2.2 RIGHTS OF THE BEST ROBOT AUTHOR
  2.4 RESULTS COUNTING AND ROBOT-WINNER DESIGNATION
  2.5 ROBOT IDENTIFICATION
  2.6 ROBOT DELETING

3. BATTLE RULES
  3.1 BATTLE FIELD
  3.2 ROBOT EQUIPMENT
  3.3 MOVING AND RELATIVE COORDINATES OF ROBOT
  3.4 ENERGY
  3.5 WALLS AND STONES
  3.6 GUN USING
  3.7 EYE USING
  3.8 RADAR USING

4. "ROBOT WARFARE 1" (RW1) LANGUAGE
  4.1 RW1-TEXT AND RW0-PSEUDOCODE
  4.2 ROBOT SAMPLE
  4.3 RW1-LANGUAGE
  4.4 GOING INTO DETAILS OF PROGRAMMING

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1. ROBOT WARFARE 1 - GAME BY E-MAIL

1.1 INTRODUCTION

1.2 GAMERS

1.3 ELECTRONIC ADRESSES, MAIL-LIST

1.4 REQUESTING BY E-MAIL

2. COMPETITION RULES

2.1 COMPETITION CONDUCT

2.2 RIGHTS OF THE BEST ROBOT AUTHOR

2.3 RESULTS COUNTING AND ROBOT-WINNER DESIGNATION

2.4 ROBOT IDENTIFICATION

• Unique robot name
• Robot color (RGB)
• A small picture (8x8 - 16 colors) if he wishes for the robot.

2.5 ROBOT DELETING

• robot author was catched in a plagiarism (he recompiled somebody else's robot)
• robot is in the last class and got 0 points.
• robot author wished to dismiss his robot himself. In this case he has to send a letter to robots@army.net with "DEL:ROBOTNAME" in the subject where ROBOTNAME is the name of the robot. Pay attention that the letter must be sent from the same address which the author was registered in the game from and which the author sent his robot from. And pay attention if your robot is in the Class A it can not be dismissed.

3. BATTLE RULES

3.1 BATTLE FIELD

• 0 - Nothing
• 1 - Hole
• 2 - Stone
• 3 - Box with missiles
• 4 - Nuclear reactor
• 5 - Flying missile
• 6 - Robot
• 10- Outer Wall

3.2 ROBOT EQUIPMENT

3.3 MOVING and RELATIVE COORDINATES of ROBOT

3.4 ENERGY

3.5 WALLS AND STONES

3.6 USING THE GUN

3.7 USING EYE

• type of object in the direction of looking
• distance from object (adjacent cell - 1)
• extra information
  • when robot sees robot - his energy level (1..13)
  • when robot sees stone - stone safety (1..5)
  • when robot sees missile - direction of missile (1 - to robot, 0 - from robot)

3.8 USING THE RADAR

4. "ROBOT WARFARE 1" (RW1) LANGUAGE

4.1 RW1-TEXT AND RW0-PSEUDOCODE

4.2 ROBOT SAMPLE

   % ================= WSIMPLE.RW1 ==================
   % Example of simple robot
   % with an eye
   % and a gun.
   % Run:    RW1_DUEL.EXE  WSIMPLE.RW1

   ROBOT "WinSimple Robot"

     COLOR FFD010

     FRONT EYE
     LEFT  GUN

   START:

     ACT FRONT        % Look in front
     if N!=6 : L1     % If there is a robot there then
        RIGHT
        ACT LEFT      % shoot
        LEFT
        GOTO START
     L1:
     if N!=3 : L3     % If there is a box with missiles then
        STEP          % go ahead
        GOTO START
     L3:              % If there is neither box nor robot then
                      % it means that there is a barrier in the direction
     if D==1 : L4     % If the distance from it is greater then 1 then
        STEP          % make a step
        GOTO START
     L4:
     RIGHT            % If the barrier is in the next cell
     GOTO START       % turn to right

   END
   

4.3 RW1-LANGUAGE

   COLOR FF0000 % red
   COLOR 00FF00 % green
   COLOR 0000FF % blue
   COLOR FFFFFF % white
   COLOR C0C0C0 % light gray and so on.

   The image of the robot is stored in eight of these IMAGE lines
   Each number corresponds to a pixel.
   IMAGE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   % 1st string, 8 black points
   IMAGE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   % 2nd string,
   IMAGE 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0
   .....
   IMAGE 0 0 1 A B 0 0 0
   IMAGE 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0   % 8th string,

   where
         0 - BLACK        8 - DARKGRAY
         1 - BLUE         9 - LIGHTBLUE
         2 - GREEN        A - LIGHTGREEN
         3 - CYAN         B - LIGHTCYAN
         4 - RED          C - LIGHTRED
         5 - MAGENTA      D - LIGHTMAGENTA
         6 - BROWN        E - YELLOW
         7 - LIGHTGRAY    F - WHITE

   To set what equipment the robot has in which slot you should
   use the following commands: FRONT, BACK, LEFT, RIGHT
   followed by EYE or GUN. For example, if  you want
   to set all four slots to be guns, you should write

   FRONT GUN
   BACK  GUN
   LEFT  GUN
   RIGHT GUN

   If you want to set a gun in front and an eye behind you should write

   FRONT GUN
   BACK  EYE

   The configuration of robot (color, picture and equipment) is set
   after the line with the key word ROBOT and before label START.

   A Label is a word followed by colon.
   The first label in the program must be

START:

   NB:  You cannot write a command on a line where there is a label
only comments. A Label is not a command so it is not executed.
   If you use arrays you should declare them after the START label
as follows:

                        DEF name[k]

where k is a number from 1 to 10000.
NB:  the quantity of all variables and length of the array can
not be bigger then 10000.
Variables exist from their first usage. The numeric range of
variables and array elements is -32768..32767.

   All variables, arrays and labels must have unique names.
Key words, names of registers can not be names.
(Basic programming concepts which should be obvious ;-)

   Registers of robot (they are read only):

   X,Y - relative coordinates of object,
   D - distance,
   N - type of object (see 3.1),
   K - extra register,

   R - random number 0..999
   T - value of ticks counter

   E - energy level of YOUR robot,
   M - number of missiles which YOUR robot has,

   Commands of RW1-language:

   GOTO label % go to label which name is "label"
   CALL label % call procedure from label "label"
   RET        % return from procedure

   STEP  % make a step in the direction in which the robot is facing,
         % If the movement failed  it returns into register N the type of object (see 3.1),
         % which prevented the movement of the robot,
         % or 0 if it succeeded
   LEFT  % turn to left
   RIGHT % turn to right

   SAY "string"  % robot says (it will be output to terminal) string

   % some of the commands are written in form, eg  command n,
   % where command is a name of command,
   % and n can be a number, a variable or an element of array.

   PRINT n % robot outputs to the terminal the value
           % of a variable or an element of array.

   ACT n % use the equipment (an eye or a gun)
         % on that part of the robot
         % ( 0- in front, 1- at right, 2- in back, 3- at left or
         %   FRONT, RIGHT, BACK and LEFT accordingly ),
         % eye returns information to the follow registers:
         % D - distance from the object (1 - adjacent cell),
         % N - type of object in the chosen direction (see 3.1),
         % K - energy level if you see another robot,
         % stone safety if you see a stone,
         % flight direction if you see a missile (see 3.7)

   SPY   % get information about the last fired missile
         % If it hit something the command returns current relative
         % coordinates of the missile or the object which was struck by
         % it to X and Y registers
         % register N - type of object (see 3.1),
         % 0 - if the missile is in flight,
         % -1 - if no missiles were fired.

   RADAR n  % use radar for finding of n = 0..6 type object,
            % relative coordinates returns to X and Y registers
            % If both X and Y are equal to 0 then the object is not found.
            % K - quadrant (0,1,2,3)
            % D - minimal abs of coordinates (only for 1.8 version)

   % in further text:
   % n can be variable, element of array,
   % m,k can be number, variable, element of array or register.

   IF k<m : label  % if k is less than m go to label
   IF k>m : label  % if k is greater than m go to label
   IF k<=m : label % if k is less then m or equal to m go to label
   IF k>=m : label % if k is greater than m or equal to m go to label
   IF k==m : label  % if k is equal to m go to label
   IF k=m : label   % if k is equal to m go to label
   IF k!=m : label  % if k is not equal to m go to label
   IF k<>m : label % if k is not equal to m go to label

   n=m % give the value of m to n

   % possible expressions
   n=-m   % give the negative value of m to n
   n=m+k  % addition
   n=m-k  % subtraction
   n=m/k  % division. n will be integer namber
   n=m*k  % multiplication
   n=m%k  % remainder of the division m by k

   n=m&k  % binary AND
   n=m|k  % binary OR
   n=m^k  % binary exclusive OR
   n=~m   % binary inversion

   If you incorrectly use stack of returns (CALL and RET), than
it lead to HALT state, that means that robot is dead. HALT state
is appear for any incorrect actions of RW1 program.

   

4.4 GOING INTO DETAILS OF PROGRAMMING

We wish you every success.