RE: Full Thrust Format for Email games

On Fri, 30 May 1997, Gerald McVicker wrote:

> NEW GAME IDEA!!!
> 
> BATTLE PROGRAMMERS!!!
> 
> Its a game where programers battle among themselves for supremecy in
code!
> One that most ordinary gamers wouldn't understand!  You guys thought
it
> would be hard to make up scenerios for SGII , wait till you try BP!!

Been done, multiple times over: Core Wars, CRobots, TclRobots,
PRobots.

You think it sounds silly to discuss it, but just wait 'til someone
writes a PythonFTSim game where you write code to pilot an FT starship
or fleet cooperatively against a similar group of opponant programs
and you wish you'd have listened to our code-chat more closely as we
devestate you ... ;)

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