From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 11232c,39dbc4c99e28558a X-Google-Attributes: gid11232c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-29 07:08:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: dennison@telepath.com (Ted Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,misc.misc Subject: Re: AdaGames Date: 29 Mar 2002 07:08:47 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <4519e058.0203290708.23bf4e04@posting.google.com> References: <98104da8.0203280310.143a1c18@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.115.221.98 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1017414528 16282 127.0.0.1 (29 Mar 2002 15:08:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 29 Mar 2002 15:08:48 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21839 misc.misc:5975 Date: 2002-03-29T15:08:48+00:00 List-Id: "Randy Brukardt" wrote in message news:... > There is an Ada Hack-like game. One of our new programmers undertook to > write such a thing to get used to programming in Ada. (This was about > 1988 or so.) It got reasonably far, it definitely was playable. Indeed, > we wasted quite a bit of time play-testing it! I had to stop it > eventually, because we were paying him to work on compilers and tools, > not Hack! Now that I think about it, I went through almost the exact same experience when I was learning Ada. The program I wrote was called "Goons". It wasn't nearly as sophisticated as hack, though. It was sort of like a turn-based version of "Robotron", but without any guns. You had to get the attacking robots to either crash into each other, or into barriers. It used the VMS SMG library for screen output, so it would work on any terminal that could log into a Vax. At one point I was getting official DR's submitted against it. :-) Once we moved into the detailed design phase, there really wasn't time to work on it any more (and I was getting my coding "fix" by doing my normal work). I have no clue what, if anything, ever happened to it. -- T.E.D. Home - mailto:dennison@telepath.com (Yahoo: Ted_Dennison) Homepage - http://www.telepath.com/dennison/Ted/TED.html