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Since September 2, 1997 |
New Feature-.DEMo | ||
The premiere of mikeBot's newest .DEMo is now showing
over at the action page. Although mikeBot once again puts
in a solid performance, he has done better in the past. However, with the new target
model making an appearance, this film is a must-see.
Other reviews also rate it highly:
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Broken Links | ||
Theives recently ravaged the Project, breaking some of the links (namely all the downloads to cdrom.com). After some negotiations with the insurance company, Mike was able to fix the links. "Thanks for your patience," was all he would say. |
Planet Pathfinder | ||
Only days after receiving a strange transmition from a mysterious place
known only as "Planet Quake",
The Project sent a probe.
The probe uncovered a vast array of server space, a whole lot of bandwidth and a rather large group of strange but intelligent creatures Their temporary leader, known as Joost Schuur (whose homeworld is really Slipgate Central, some sort of "Links Repository") was apparently pleased with the probe and invited the entire Project to come and stay. Apparently the invitation was accepted, because Mike was seen earlier loading up the mikeBotRocket with a plethora of supplies. |
Screenshots | ||
To celebrate the arrival on The Planet,
The Project has released some new screenshots on the
.DEMo Page
The newly-revamped mikeBotCam now has a crosshair model (don't forget to download it...), inspired by Itchy Bot |
Feedback | ||
There is now a source feedback page, which apparently deals with questions/comments about the actual source code. |
Due to the good work of the people over at www.botauthors.org,
Mike can now be reached through the following addresses:
mike@botauthors.org mikeBot@botauthors.org |
New Notes | ||
Our hard-working reporters dug up this tasty nugget: Mike has apparently written another set of notes which details how to do iterative predictive firecontrol... |
Site Navigation | ||
There have been eyewitness accounts of a new site navigation bar for The Project. It is also apparent that the old one is still available, if preferred... One report also hinted at the fact that Mike wanted feedback on the new bar. Mike was, unfortuneatly, unavailable for comment. |
Project Aims | ||
In a controversal decision, mikeBot Press decided to publish the The mikeBot Manifesto, detailing the aims of the Project. |
botauthors.org | ||
According to sources at the local DNS, the domain
www.botauthors.org
is registered. There are also rumours the Project itself may move there.
(It is currently reachable as http:// www.botauthors.org/ mikeBot/) |
"Guild" Spotted | ||
A strange "Guild", apparently known as
"The Bot Authors Guild",
have kidnapped mikeBot. "It was freaky, " exclaimed an eye-witness, "they
just grabbed him right off the server!" Although the kiddnappers have made no demands
as yet, they have a temporary Web page set up informing the public of their position. "It's all very bizzare," Project leader Mike said in bewilderment, "the Guild likes fully autonomous bots. I just don't know why they stole mikeBot..." Authorities are surrounding the Site now, and hope to recover mikeBot, along with others, before anything bad happens. |
Progress report leaked | ||
A contact deep inside the Project recently revealed that Mike has
made an update to the progress page.
Reports are unconfirmed at this time, but it seems Mike has been busy
recently and is working on Navigation and getting version 0.3 of
the source out.
<aside> It seems I have been forgetting to write the news as newspaper "stories"; that is now remedied ;) </aside> |
Updates Lacking | ||
I have been really busy lately and havn't been updating as often... I have worked a little on mikeBot's polygon-based navigation system, developing a polygon class, including point-in-polygon detection. |