1. Re: Euphoria robots etc.
The problem with a standard interface for the robots
thing is that not everybody has the same system. There are those
of you who have the latest 400mhz computers with many megs
of RAM, and there are probably those of you whose computers
are worse than my 640K 386sx DOS system. Until the real-time
concept came up, the idea sounded fine. More people can participate
if that is not done. The thought about penalties for taking to long
to make a move has the same problem. How would you make a 20mhz
and a 400mhz computer be able to play against each other fairly?
Which brings us to what I think about the Qbasic'ly challanged
e-mail. I understand what the author of that meant, but for
some things on older systems such as mine, QBASIC can beat the heck
out of Euphoria, simply because it doesn't need to use the disk as
virtual memory (it also can't, but that does let it run faster).
It is unfortunate that I can write a speed testing program on my
computer, but can't actually write anything that can take advantage of that
speed. My point: Let's not discount to quickly the idea of NOT running the
programs real time.
- Robert McDougal
PS: Now I know that my computer's built in speaker uses an 8-bit D to A
converter. So then wouldn't it be possible to play a wav file through the
PC-speaker? Two problems. 1 - What port is the converter attached to? 2 - I
downloaded a Euphoria program that plays wav's via a soundblaster, but I still
can't figure out their format.
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