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P-ROBOTS is a game that helps teach programming in Pascal.  The
objective is to design and program a ``robot'' that can triumph over
similar robots designed and programmed by others in a real-time battle
of wits and flying missiles.

You control your robot by writing a procedure in Pascal to specify your
robot's behavior and strategy in its efforts to vanquish up to three
other robots in a battle to the death.  A variety of pre-defined
P-ROBOTS Pascal functions allow your robot to track its position on the
battlefield, monitor its health or damage condition, and calculate the
distance and angle to opponents from its current battlefield position.
Each robot is equipped with a cannon to fire missiles, and a motorized
drive mechanism to either close in to kill a hapless opponent or
flee from a fierce foe.

P-ROBOTS is an excellent way for the novice programmer to sharpen
his/her Pascal skills and have fun at the same time.  However, P-ROBOTS
does assume that the robot designer/programmer already knows the
fundamentals of programming in Pascal.

For the experienced programmer, P-ROBOTS offers a chance to see just how
well you program in a programming environment where ``bad'' code can
lead to graphic and ignoble defeat and ``brilliant'' code can bring
triumph and glory.

Disk No: 1386                                                           
Disk Title: P-Robots                                                    
PC-SIG Version: S2.0                                                    
                                                                        
Program Title: P-Robots                                                 
Author Version: 2.1                                                     
Author Registration: $20.00                                             
Special Requirements: NONE                                              
                                                                        
P-ROBOTS is a game that helps teach programming in Pascal.  The         
objective is to design and program a ``robot'' that can triumph over    
similar robots designed and programmed by others in a real-time battle  
of wits and flying missiles.                                            
                                                                        
You control your robot by writing a procedure in Pascal to specify your 
robot's behavior and strategy in its efforts to vanquish up to three    
other robots in a battle to the death.  A variety of pre-defined        
P-ROBOTS Pascal functions allow your robot to track its position on the 
battlefield, monitor its health or damage condition, and calculate the  
distance and angle to opponents from its current battlefield position.  
Each robot is equipped with a cannon to fire missiles, and a motorized  
drive mechanism to either close in to kill a hapless opponent or        
flee from a fierce foe.                                                 
                                                                        
P-ROBOTS is an excellent way for the novice programmer to sharpen       
his/her Pascal skills and have fun at the same time.  However, P-ROBOTS 
does assume that the robot designer/programmer already knows the        
fundamentals of programming in Pascal.                                  
                                                                        
For the experienced programmer, P-ROBOTS offers a chance to see just how
well you program in a programming environment where ``bad'' code can    
lead to graphic and ignoble defeat and ``brilliant'' code can bring     
triumph and glory.                                                      
                                                                        
PC-SIG                                                                  
1030D East Duane Avenue                                                 
Sunnyvale  Ca. 94086                                                    
(408) 730-9291                                                          
(c) Copyright 1989 PC-SIG, Inc.                                         

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║ To view instructions, type:  GO (press ENTER)                           ║
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(c) Copyright 1990, PC-SIG Inc.

This disk contains the shareware version of P-ROBOTS:
 
 
This disk has the following files:

    OOZ.EXE -- A program to unpack the various .ZOO files on the disk
    P-ROBT21.ZOO -- Version 2.1 of the P-ROBOTS program plus the latest
                    collection of robots
    RE.ZOO -- An editor especially designed for developing and testing robots
    RRR.ZOO -- A "shell" to enable you to play round-robin P-ROBOTS
               tournaments
    README.TXT -- The file you are reading


Just a few words about each of these:


OOZ.EXE

    This program is used to unpack the various .ZOO files on the disk.  To use
    it, follow these directions:

    HARD DISK USERS:
         
         Copy all of the files from the disk on to your hard disk, then unpack
         each file with an .ZOO extension by giving the command:

              ooz filename.zoo

         followed by a carriage return -- where filename is the name of
         whatever file you wish to unpack.  For example, OOZ P-ROBOTS.ZOO
         would unpack the file P-ROBOTS. (You can use wildcards: for example,
         OOZ *.ZOO.)

    DUAL-FLOPPY USERS:

         First, format three new blank disks.  Put the P-ROBOTS disk (i.e., this
         disk) into drive B.  Then, for each .ZOO file, follow the following
         steps:

              1.   Put a formatted blank disk in drive A.  Make drive A the
                   default drive by giving the command "A:" followed by a
                   carriage return.
              2.   Unpack each file (on drive B) by giving the command:

                        B:OOZ B:filename.ZOO

                   followed by a carriage return -- where filename is the name
                   of whatever file you wish to unpack.  For example, 
                   B:OOZ B:P-ROBOTS.ZOO would unpack the file P-ROBOTS on to
                   the blank disk in drive A.

         It is important to use completely blank, but already formatted disks,
         since the files within the .ZOO groups are quite large and take a
         great deal of disk space.

    SINGLE-FLOPPY USERS:

         The P-ROBOTS files are too large to all be unpacked at once if you have
         only a single floppy drive.  Find a friend with either a hard drive 
         or a dual-floppy system and follow the instructions above. 


P-ROBT21.ZOO:

    This is a .ZOO file that must be unpacked using OOZ.EXE.
    
    This file contins (1) version 2.1 of P-ROBOTS (2) the documentation
    for P-ROBOTS, and (3) a collection of the latest and best robots that have
    been written for P-ROBOTS.

 
RE.ZOO:

    This an editor especially designed for developing and testing robots.
    It was developed by Professor B.J. Gleason of Upsala College and is being
    provided to users of P-ROBOTS with his permission.


RRR.ZOO:

    This is a "shell" to enable you to play round-robin P-ROBOTS
    tournaments.  It was developed by Professor B.J. Gleason of Upsala
    College and is being provided to users of P-ROBOTS with his permission.

 Volume in drive A has no label
 Directory of A:\

OOZ      EXE     11520  10-17-86   4:54p
README   TXT      3135  11-13-89  10:22a
P-ROBT21 ZOO    176684  11-13-89   9:12a
RE       ZOO     30872  12-11-89  12:07a
RRR      ZOO     16028   1-08-90  12:46a
GO       BAT        21   7-10-90   4:00a
GO1      TXT       573   1-01-80   1:27a
GO1      BAT        41   1-01-80   2:35a
FILE1386 TXT      2887   1-01-80   1:00a
        9 file(s)     241761 bytes
                       74752 bytes free