(Color?) Robot Battle

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Included here are a few PDF scans of the Robot Battle manual and a few sample programs that I coded up. Note that I was barely a teenager at the time, so no judging the quality of my code (except maybe through a competition on your CoCo).


Many thanks to John Metcalf for the following screenshots taken from an emulator (including one of my example programs, no less!). For more from him, see Additional Resources:


Program Editor

Command Screen

Robots Battling

Victory!

Documentation and Example Programs

Example Program Alpha:

*ALPHA
*ROBOT CREATED 1/30/88 B. DONAHE
MISILE> =M:XL:XM:H5:XL:GMISILE
ROBOT> =R:XL:XM:F3:H1:GROBOT
START> CMISILE:CROBOT:T1
GSTART
Example Program Beta:

*BETA
*ROBOT CREATED 2/17/88 B. DONAHE
SCAN> =R:XL:XM:H5:F1:GSCAN
SCAN2> =W:T1:GSCAN2
SCAN3> =M:XL:XM:H7:GSCAN3
MOVE> F8:=S:CLOOK1:CLOOK2:GSCAN2
LOOK1> CLOOK1A:CLOOK1B
LOOK1A> T2:CSCAN:CSCAN3
LOOK1B> T-1:CSCAN:CSCAN3
LOOK2> CLOOK2A:CLOOK2B:T1
LOOK2A> T-3:CSCAN:CSCAN3
LOOK2B> T1:CSCAN:CSCAN3
START> CSCAN:CSCAN2:CSCAN3:CMOVE
GSTART

Additional Resources

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