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Robots Othello

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  • Write a summary about Robots Othello.

  • Mention Dr. Baird and Coach Rags retiring, link to post

  • Include images, code snippets, etc.

  • Things I’ve learned since college

    • local variables are great… for some reason, in school, global vars were how I did everything outside of counters
    • I was terrible at duplication!

  • I must have lost the original swf files… the logic for the networking code is earlier than I’m finding. But hard to tell because I was terrible at naming.

  • Version control - we only had Source Safe. It was awful. And we didn’t know what we were doing.

Running FFDec

  • install openjdk (brew install openjdk)
  • correct path for Java
# NOTE: to use openjdk instead of system Java
set -gx PATH /opt/homebrew/opt/openjdk/bin $PATH

Debugging

  • There is a bug… either in the decompiled SWF or in the GameAI port or something else… not sure where, but something is allowing moves that just aren’t valid. At least when I use the Ruffle + decompiled SWF + GameAI. I’ll have to try it against the compiled SWF with my code to see. I don’t remember if the AI code determines valid moves or if the Flash code does.

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