PCRobots Official Web site

I want to know about any alternative PCRobots web pages which are good, and any leagues etc which are going on, so I can link to them from this site.

PCRobots Source code

BE WARNED It isn't written in the most readable style around, and you MUST be a DOS guru before even attempting to understand 90% of it.

There is lots of complex stuff in it, like EXE file loaders, DOS memory allocation simulator, EMS memory handlers, interrupt interceptors, basic multitasking kernel (it's cooperative, not pre-emptive - I didn't want to risk re-entering DOS functions).

Note I am NOT going to give any support for this code at all. If you want to modify it, then do as you will with it, but I simply cannot afford the time to do any work with it, or to tell you why changing this bit here or that thingummy there causes it to fall in a big heap.

If you modify it, you can distribute it as will, but:

• You must acknowledge that I played a part in the software's creation
• I'd appreciate a copy of the new version, just to see what's happened to it

If you want to email me about PCRobots, then email me at pcrobots@pscs.co.uk.
PCRobots mail to other addresses will just be ignored.
Mail to the above address should be replied to, but I can't guarantee to be any help, and it may take a few days to respond since PCRobots isn't a high priority for me at the moment.

I can almost guarantee I won't be any help at questions like "How do I create a robot in Basic/Pascal/Forth/Ada/Fortran/etc" as I don't know those languages.
I can try to help with writing robots in C/C++, but I probably won't be much help because:

1. I was never much good at writing the actual robots...
2. It was nearly 8 years ago (1994) when I last did anything with this software!
3. I haven't got a DOS compiler to be able to test things on nowadays

I'm sorry if it sounds a bit as if I don't want to know, but I am actually very little help on the things that people usually want to know (ie how to write robots, or why there isn't a Windows 95 version), and I have little spare time to work on it nowadays. PCRobots was written whilst I was a student, so I had quite a bit of spare time. Now, I actually have to do paid work in order to eat, so spare time is a lot less abundant than it was.

I'm constantly surprised that people are still using a DOS program with (let's face it) pretty naff graphics. Because of that, I wanted to put together an "official" site, and hopefully draw together a few other of the much better web sites which are around.

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