''Color Robot Battle'' is a
programming game
A programming game is a video game that incorporates elements of computer programming, enabling the player to direct otherwise autonomous units within the game to follow commands in a domain-specific programming language, often represented as a ...
developed by Glenn Sogge and Del Ogren for the
TRS-80 Color Computer
The RadioShack TRS-80 Color Computer, later marketed as the Tandy Color Computer, is a series of home computers developed and sold by Tandy Corporation. Despite sharing a name with the earlier TRS-80, the Color Computer is a completely different ...
and published by
Radio Shack
RadioShack (formerly written as Radio Shack) is an American electronics retailer that was established in 1921 as an amateur radio mail-order business. Its parent company was purchased by Tandy Corporation in 1962, which shifted its focus from ma ...
in 1981.
Robot Programming
The aim of the game is to write a
computer program
A computer program is a sequence or set of instructions in a programming language for a computer to Execution (computing), execute. It is one component of software, which also includes software documentation, documentation and other intangibl ...
that controls a (simulated) robot. Two programs are selected to do battle in an arena with the last robot standing being the winner.
Color Robot Battle on the Programming Games Wiki
/ref> One of the examples from the manual follows:
*OMEGA
ROB> =R:XM
WAL> =W:T-2
START> CROB:CWAL:F8:=?:T1
GSTART
The robot controlled by this program follows the wall of the arena making an occasional random turn to break the movement pattern. The program scans for an opponent and attacks if one is found.
See also
*'' RobotWar''
References
External links
Color Robot Battle
on the Programming Games Wiki
* {{youtube, stch5lW3Nz8, Color Robot Battle - Adventures in Programming
1981 video games
TRS-80 Color Computer games
TRS-80 Color Computer-only games
Programming games
Video games about robots
Video games developed in the United States