mikeBot News


Since September 2, 1997

September 9, 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:

"...Visually Stunning..."
-- The NY Times

"...It's...the most...best...show I've ever seen..."
-- Small-town DJ


September 3, 1997
    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.


September 2, 1997
    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


August 21, 1997
    Feedback
There is now a source feedback page, which apparently deals with questions/comments about the actual source code.

    e-mail
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


August 16, 1997
    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...


August 15, 1997
    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/)


August 9, 1997
    "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.


August 4, 1997
    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>


July 31, 1997
    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.

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