"Bots" By Ron McCoy ARCADIAN 2 no. 10 (September 18, 1980): 90,91. Instructions from the "Arcadian" newsletter: "Bots" program by Ron McCoy is a challenge. Modified from a program in the June 1979 Personal Computing, it sets up a 9x19 grid on the screen. Fifteen "walls" are randomly placed in the squares, and the 15 "bots"(*) are also randomly placed. Then your position is similarly located. Hand controller 1 is used to move the target (you) in any of the eight available directions, or stand still, and the trigger makes it happen. (The knob is used to turn a little indicator to the desired direction.) After you make your move, all the bots start to advance upon you, one square at a time, each. If they hit a wall, they disappear. The object is to wipe them out, but it is a difficult job. You have to maneuver yourself so that the bots keep hitting walls. I kept saying, "next time I'll get them," to no avail. Four years after "Bots" was first published, there was an updated version of "Bots" published in ARCADIAN 6, no. 7 (May 25, 1984): 61,62. Written by Steve Walters, it was simply called "Bots II." The update gave the player the ability to shoot the robots if they were close enough. Bots (original adult language submission) (1979)(Ron McCoy) -- The submitted code said "SHIT" instead of "DRAT". :-)