HELP V1.0

This help file looks at the some of the problems beginers may have when
designing robots


PROBLEM 1   My Robot Won't Compile

Lets go through the checklist

1.  Do you have the 8 robot charecteristics at the start of the file?

2.  Are you sure that the numerical part of your instructions are exactly
    13 instructions long?

3.  Positive?  This is a common and easy mistake, no need to be embaressed.

4.  Have you saved your Robot as anything other than pure ASCII.  RTF & DOC
    formats just won't do.

5.  Are there any blank lines in the file, especially at the top and the bottom
    of the file.  Notepad in perticular has a habit of adding 2 blank lines
    at the bottom of the file.

6.  Have you foolishly tried to make the robots charecteristics more than 50.
    Of course the compiler tells you this.


If that dosn't solve it I haven't he foggiest why it won't compile.

PROBLEM 2   My Robot Suddenly Dies.

This is caused by your Robot trying to execute a non-existant instruction you
have either made your program jump to a non-existent line beyond the end of your
or the last instruction of your program isn't a Jump instruction and so the Robot
tries to execute a non-existent line.  Both lead to Robot death.


PROBLEM 3   My Robots Simply Can't Compete With The Mole Class of Robots

This is the most common problem and unfortunately it can only be solved by
many hard nights of work.



Help.txt written by Alistair 'Mole' Hutton

Release History

Mar '98   V1.0 released.