0.26.0

[flemming-n-larsen]

📦 0.26.0 - Support for remote servers

🚀 Improvements

• GUI:
  • Replaced the Server -> Select Server with Config -> Server Config which makes it possible choose between
    using a local or remote server. In addition, it is possible to add, edit, and remove remote servers, and it is
    possible to specify a controller and a bot secret to allow the GUI and bots to access the remote server.
  • If a booted bot process exits, it is now removed from the active New Battle window.
• Booter:
  • When a pid of a bot process cannot be found, the Booter writes out a load {pid} to indicate that a process could
    not be found with the provided pid.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• GUI
  • Control Panel was shown when server was stopped or rebooted.

📄 Documentation

You can read the Robocode Tank Royale documentation here.

🔨 Try it out

Please head over to My First Bot tutorial to learn how to set up your first bot for Robocode Tank Royale.

▶ Running Robocode

You need Java 11 as a minimum or newer, e.g. the newest version of Java available.

You can read the installation guide to get more details about installing both Java and Robocode.

The main application is the GUI Application which is a Java application.
You can read more about how to use the GUI Application here.

The Robocode GUI application is run from the command line (shell or command prompt) in order to start and view
battles:

java -jar robocode-tankroyale-gui-0.26.0.jar

If you are new to Robocode, you need to download some bots and extract those to directories on your system.
These bot directories can be added from the menu of the GUI: Config → Bot Root Directories

🤖 Sample bots

These sample bots are currently available:

Platform	Archive	Requirements
C#	sample-bots-csharp-0.26.0.zip	Microsoft .Net SDK 6.0 or newer
Java	sample-bots-java-0.26.0.zip	Any Java SDK 11 or newer

All bots are put in zip archives, which should be installed in independent directories.
Each zip archive contains a ReadMe.md file with more information for the specific platform.

📦 Bot API

In order to start developing bots for Robocode, the following APIs are available.

📦 Java:

Available as:

• Jar file: robocode-tankroyale-bot-api-0.26.0.jar
• Artifact at Nexus Repository
• Artifact at Maven Central Repository (available after some time)

📦 .Net:

Available as:

• Artifact at Nuget repository

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This discussion was created from the release 0.26.0.

[flemming-n-larsen]

I just updated the GUI app (robocode-tankroyale-gui-0.26.0.jar) where a annoying bug was introduced where only a single instance of a booted bot could be stopped, but the other instances of the bot with the same name would continue running, and could not be stopped.

So I you downloaded this jar file before this comment, then please download the updated version here.

[SirStone]

This version GUI is missing the robocode-tankroyale-booter.jar

The GUI is spitting out errors about not finding the file

In fact the file is not present in the jar, while is present in 0.25.0 version.

[flemming-n-larsen]

@SirStone Thank you for the notification. 😅
I have now uploaded a version 0.26.0 containing the missing Booter.

[SirStone]

@flemming-n-larsen Now is working again thanks.