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 co>
>
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Hello,
Very good point! I didn't think of that. Prehaps some way of slowing
down all computers to the speed of the slowest computer. I think I
have a program to do that somewhere.
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