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Article #75107Re: Reaperbot Modifications
From: Tim Harrison
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:16
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 14:16
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Thanks for the suggestion. I finally discovered that something called QuakeBot was actually the modified Reaperbot I was looking for, so I have it now. I've heard of Omicron and Frogbot, but I haven't tried them yet. Maybe I will now. Thanks again! > "Tim" wrote in message ... >> Does anyone know where I can find a modified version of Reaperbot as >> described at the bottom of this page: >> >> http://www.inside3d.com/qctut/ >> >> I have a Mac, so a lot of these compiling and editing programs are not >> available to me, not to mention that most of this stuff is way over my >> head. >> >> My friend and I play Q1 all the time with the Reaperbot mod, so we'd love >> to >> get these problems corrected. > > I don't know, but after Reaperbot was all the rage (about 1997), the Omicron > Bot was the preferred one by many (including a large contingent of Mac Quake > players, who had regular Omicron "botblast" competitions on custom maps for > a couple of years, around 1998-1999). Steve Polge, who created the Reaper, > had long since gone to work for Epic on the Unreal AI. (Jean-Paul van > Waveren, who created the Omicron, also did the Gladiator for Quake II and > later went to id to do the Quake III AI, which he then wrote his Master of > Science thesis on.) More recently, I think Frogbot may be the most > up-to-date, but I've never tried it. > >
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Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!uio.no!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-01!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Tim Harrison <tim.harrison@catholicity.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.quake Subject: Re: Reaperbot Modifications Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:16:42 -0500 Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com Message-ID: <BDC0C77A.53F39%tim.harrison@catholicity.com> User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.0.0.1309 References: <BDBFCFD5.53E35%tim.harrison@catholicity.com> <BeEmd.5673$_3.76462@typhoon.sonic.net> Mime-version: 1.0 X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 34 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit