mlm@cad.cs.cmu.edu.UUCP (02/17/87)
There are three parts to this message, one or more may apply to you: o Current status of Rogomatic o Availability of source o User survey request *** all Rogomatic users please read *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Current Status of Rogomatic I have gotten some requests for the "latest" version of Rogomatic. The latest version is still Rog-O-Matic XIV, which is over a year old. This version plays Rogue 3.6, 5.2, and 5.3. It does not play Rogue 5.4, Urogue, hack, moria, or larn. Here are the total winners I have been told about: Damon Permezel <allegra!watmath!dapermezel@Berkeley>, Rogue 5.2 Oct 10, 1983 dapermez 2347 total winner 26 74 18 -5 14/58312 Dan Reynolds <dan@ut-ngp.ARPA>, Rogue 5.3 Feb 16, 1984 reynolds 11316 total winner 26 100 20 10 13/34121 Ewald Detjens <seismo!philabs!prls!detjens@rochester.arpa>, Rogue 5.3 Mar 15, 1985 wolsheim 12305 total winner 26 97 23 -4 14/77333 Troy Torgerson <ttorgers%udenver.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA>, Rogue 5.2 Jun 23, 1986 ttorgers 14857 total winner 26 The program is not currently under active development, and is in fact only weakly supported by me. There are reportedly efforts underway around the globe to port Rogomatic to other versions of Rogue and Hack. Nobody has reporeted success to me. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2. Availability of sources Three things are avilable to any and all who ask o the source to Rogomatic XIV netmail or FTP o the source to Rogue 3.6 netmail or FTP o CMU Technical report CMU-CS-83-144 US Post FTP users may access G.CS.CMU.EDU, account 'ftpguest', password 'cmunix' There are two files of interest: mlm/rgm/rgm14.tar.Z compressed tar file of Rogomatic XIV source mlm/rgm/rog36.tar.Z compressed tar file of Rogue 3.6 source If you use FTP to get a copy of either of these files, please send me mail indicating that you have a copy of Rogomatic and/or Rogue. This is the only stipulation in the Copyright notice: YOU MUST NOTIFY ME THAT YOU HAVE ROGOMATIC! This is mainly for my own amusement (so I can update my "Rogomatic conquers the world" map, and so I can send mail to all Rogomatic users). You are welcome to copy/modify/redistribute Rogomatic (but not Rogue), so long as the recipient(s) obey the notifictiation requirement. If you cannot access FTP, the sources are available by netmail. To receive the sources by mail, send me netmail, and provide a return path that does not go through SEISMO (they have requested that I not send Rogomatic through their machine). Rogomatic is shipped as 12 shar files each about 42k bytes long. Finally, the Technical Report "ROGOMATIC: A Belligerent Expert System" is available for free by US Mail. Just send me a note requesting the tech report and giving a valid physical mail address. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3. User survey, all Rogomatic users If you have a copy of Rogomatic (or just run the copy at your site), please fill out the following form and send it in the mail with the words "rogomatic survey" in the subject line. Name: ____________________ Net address: ____________________ Site: ____________________ Rogue version: ____________________ (eg: 3.6, 5.2, or 5.3) Best score: ____________________ City/State/Country: ____________________ (eg: Pittsburgh/PA/USA) Longitude: ____________________ (eg: 80 00 00 W) Latitude: ____________________ (eg: 40 26 19 N) If you would be so kind, include the following additional information: o The output of "rogue -s" at your site o The output of "rogomatic -s | head -20" at your site o The output of "gene -f" at your site If you can't get mail back to me, print out the results and send me US Mail. Foreign Users: at least fill out the first part of the form; I really want to know which countries are running Rogmatic. I plan to collect all of this information to put together (1) an analysis of how well Rogomatic actually plays, and (2) the best possible gene pool. Be a part of the largest distributed computation in history! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. Mauldin (Fuzzy) Department of Computer Science ARPA: Michael.Mauldin@CAD.CS.CMU.EDU Carnegie-Mellon University Phone: (412) 268-3065 Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890
ems@prls.UUCP (02/17/87)
In article <1050@cad.cs.cmu.edu> mlm@cad.cs.cmu.edu (Michael Mauldin) writes: > { several lines deleted -gpv} > >If you cannot access FTP, the sources are available by netmail. To >receive the sources by mail, send me netmail, and provide a return path >that does not go through SEISMO (they have requested that I not send >Rogomatic through their machine). Rogomatic is shipped as 12 shar >files each about 42k bytes long. > I would imagine that there may be several machine on the net that don't want your sources passing through ! Don't forget, many of the 'network' connections are just 300 baud dial up lines ( UUCP connections for instance). Let's see; 42K byte files x 12 shar files = 504K bytes + shar header and control lines 504K bytes = (8 data bits + 1 stop bit + 1 start bit) per byte = 5Mbits At 300 baud I figure several UUCP sites will have their modems tied up for 4.7 hours !! I wonder how many suprised System Administraters are going to find themselves 'on the carpet' (again) trying to justify the cost of their long distance UUCP connection(s).