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@@ -24,12 +24,7 @@ Installing GNU Robots To specify an unusual location for GNU Guile, you can use the `--with-guile=' option, like this: - ./configure --with-guile=/home/jhall - - To specify an unusual location for curses, you can use the - `--with-curses=' option, like this: - - ./configure --with-curses=/hub/local + ./configure --with-guile=/home/user (2) Look at the generated `Makefile', and check that everything is okay. Then type: @@ -51,56 +46,31 @@ Notes * generator; it would write a Scheme program that you could then load * into GNU Robots. Writing this in GTK+ would seem like a good idea. * -* If anyone would like to help write this programming interface for -* GNU Robots, please contact me! You may reach me at <jhall1@isd.net> - - -There are three ways to run GNU Robots: +* This will hopefully be in the next release! -1. X Windows ("xrobots") -2. text mode, using curses ("robots") -3. text mode, log file output ("robots_logfile") -I use the robots_logfile when I am hosting a GNU Robots competition, -because it is not really interesting for me to see how the many robots -are individually interacting with their environments. I am only -interested in the outcome. - -I use the xrobots program when I am running my own GNU Robot game, -because there I *am* interested in what my robot is doing. +To run GNU Robots, run "gnurobots" -- -The "robots" program is a curses-based version of the game, using an -ASCII approximation of the game elements. Your robot will appear as a -"v" when it points South, "^" when it points North, and "<" and ">" -for West and East. Empty spaces are shown as " ", walls as "#", -baddies as "@", and food and prizes as "+" and "$". - -You'll note that this is the same notation used in the GNU Robots map -files. The initial location of the robot is not shown in the map -file, but is always at 1,1 facing East (the upper-left corner is -always 0,0). - The sample map that is provided as "maps/small.map" is just a single room, with prizes all along the four walls. The sample robot program "scheme/simple.scm" knows how to pick up all these prizes and then quit. Other map files can be found in the maps/ directory, and other robot programs are in the scheme/ directory. -The usage for robots, xrobots, robots_logfile is as follows: +The usage for gnurobots is as follows: - robots [OPTION]... [FILE] + gnurobots [OPTION]... [FILE] Options are: - -f, --map-file=FILE Load map file - -s, --shields=N Set initial shields to N - -e, --energy=N Set initial energy to N - -V, --version Output version information and exit - -h, --help Display this help and exit + -f, --map-file=FILE Load map file + -s, --shields=N Set initial shields to N + -e, --energy=N Set initial energy to N + -V, --version Output version information and exit + -h, --help Display this help and exit -Even though it's not shown, the `-f' option to load a map file is -required by GNU Robots. Otherwise, the game will not be able to open -a map for your robot to explore! + Note: FILE refers to a scheme file and ./bin/gnurobots enters into + interactive mode if it is not specified. |