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Who am i? 
My name is Marcos Machado Coelho de Souza, i was born in Japan 1970, but i am a typical brazilian - Grandparents portuguese + italian (actually, being a typical brazilian means any combination in at least of a dozen original countries: portugal, italy, germany, japan, africa, sweden, native brasilians(indians, being political and geografically incorretct), etc...).

I am a Java Programmer, doing this for my living. I describe myself as a soul-programmer, i really enjoy to sit behind a keyboard and hit its keys as if was Mozart composing (wish u understand what am i saying). Thats probably the major reason of my interest in [[Robocode]]. That and the fascination on making a machine that "thinks" (Probably all RoboCoders enjoy that little god-like sensation - anything serious i hope :-) ).

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Axe? 
Axe(english) == Machado(portuguese). 
Nick for Marcos Machado Coelho de Souza (now u know why i like short nicks).

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Personal Data: 
Nationality: Brazilian. 
Birth: april 23, 1970 - Tokyo - Japan. 
Living in Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
e-mail: marcos.axe@gmail.com 
MSN messenger: axe1970@hotmail.com 
Orkut page: https://www.orkut.com/Home.aspx?xid=5660873092884899607

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My Bots: 
axeBots.[[HataMoto]]. 
axeBots.[[Musashi]]. 
axeBots.[[Okami]]. 
axeBots.[[SilverSurfer]]. 
wiki.[[SilverFist]] (co-author with [[PEZ]]) 
axeBots.[[StormBringer]].

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Bem-vindo ao wiki. :) -- [[ABC]]

Conforme ja havia lhe dito, obrigado. de uma olhada na To-Do list da pagina do [[Musashi]] :-)... -- [[Axe]]

All you know how seriously we take the Carnival here in Brazil, 5 days of holiday! And also all you know how Rio de Janeiro becomes in these days (a lot of turists - 2 million aprox.). So, I'm going to the mountains in that hell-like mean time. See u all soon, good carnival and give a rest to my bots please :)... Specially [[Rozu]]'s [[Aleph]]. Obv, just kiddin', good carnival to you all that don't have that holiday! Quoting D'Gaule: "Brazil isn't a serious country" (at least he was 5-days right..) -- [[Axe]] 
 
Happy Carnival, everybody )))))))))))....  -- [[Axe]]

I have a question to you RoboCoders: Is the real dimensions of a bot 40X40? Think that i've saw somewhere that it isn't really that. Does anybody knows something about it? -- [[Axe]]

Iirc, it's 36x36. -- [[ABC]]

That was what i thought have seen... But why the api returns 40 then? -- [[Axe]]

Does it? I think you might be the first one who have ever use the API call. =) -- [[PEZ]]

Am I drunk? I'll check my code... Maybe is the carnival :-) Hic! -- [[Axe]]

Nope, i aint drunk (yet)... I use (probably since i've started robocoding): Math.max(this.getHeight(), this.getWidth());... The api javadoc says:
<pre>
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getHeight
public double getHeight()Returns the height of the robot

Returns:
the height of the robot
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getWidth
public double getWidth()Returns the width of the robot

Returns:
the width of the robot
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</pre>
And it returns 40X40... Any clues why? -- [[Axe]]

because that's the width and height of the bot maybe?  The legendary 18 and 36 stuff we're doing is because Robocode actually subtracts 4 from both of those when doing collision detection, maybe as a sort of averaging between when they're facing diagonally and facing vertically or horizontally (?) -- [[Kawigi]]

The bot is a non-rotating square according to the developers IIRC, so where you're facing shouldn't make a difference.  I can't believe that 40x40 is correct, my movement code should make me drive into walls constantly...  [[Jamougha]]

My point is that a bot is a 40x40 rotating square according to the developers (ideally), but it's implemented as a 36x36 non-rotating square. -- [[Kawigi]]

Perhaps... I'm not sure what the difference is. :-) Anyhow, I just tested and a bot can approach to within 18.0001 pixels of the wall or so, so 36x36 is a good assumption. -- [[Jamougha]]

I had a gun that couldn't hit walls once because he would be within 17.999999999 pixels of the wall and it screwed it up. -- [[Kawigi]]

It's a non-rotating square? Are u sure? I mean, it isn't linked to the graphical representation? -- [[Axe]]

Interesting... it's really a 36X36, there is the code:
<pre>
public synchronized void updateBoundingBox()
{
 boundingBox.setRect((x - (double)(width / 2)) + 2D, 
 (y - (double)(height / 2)) + 2D, width - 4, height - 4);
}
</pre>
Where width=height=40... Weird... -- [[Axe]]

Beware u all robocoderes... I´m preparing a disciple: Caeser. He promisses(?). Time will tell... -- [[Axe]]

I have a problem with all of your bots. Not a single one runs on my computer.Everytime when i try to run a battle with a robot i get this:<pre>SYSTEM: Could not load axeBots.SilverSurfer 1.01 : java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: axeBots/SilverSurfer (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: axeBots/SilverSurfer (Unsupported major.minor version 48.0)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:486)
 at robocode.security.RobocodeClassLoader.loadRobotClass(RobocodeClassLoader.java:187)
 at robocode.battle.Battle.initialize(Battle.java:491)
 at robocode.battle.Battle.run(Battle.java:139)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)</pre>
I use Java 1.3 . Is this a possible reason for throwing this exception or what am i doing wrong. --[[deathcon]]

Thnx for reporting. Probably is the JRE version, [[ABC]] also gave me this warning. I'll try to fix it for 1.3 as soon as possible, the problem is that i'm around with some WaveSurfing problem... -- [[Axe]]

Just installed java 1.4 and no more problems. :D  --[[deathcon]]

It's a good step i think. Many others bots have the same compatibility issue... I have to solve this to make it 1.3 compatible, but this kind of stuff always loose priority (it´s not that fun u know:). -- [[Axe]]

Dude, I do receive your e-mail letters. It must be you not receiving mine. -- [[PEZ]]
* It was that spam killer... I don't know what is worst: the disease or the cure. -- [[Axe]]

Hey you all dudes! Just to remember that I remember u all, and hopefully u all remember me too... (remember-boring i know) I have some new ideas and thoughts that are screaming to go out, but i'm facing now an awfully long and hard time. But u all know too, after the storm the good times allways shine! "It can't rain alltimes..." (sic-to me) (or !hics! maybe? - definately it's written PORTO on the bottle, [[PEZ]]! Actually on all of them:). God Bless U All, see u soon! -- [[Axe]]

Man, that doesn't sound good. Well, it sounds like it tastes good. Maybe it's with Ports as it is with Burboun, you need to break a few bottles before they really get to ya. =) Hope to see you back on the scene soon! -- [[PEZ]]

Hope to see you back soon Axe, well as long as you keep from pushing us down in the rankings that is ;-) Same goes for you ABC! -- [[Pulsar]]

Too late for that... ;) -- [[ABC]]

Hey ya! Good to "see" u all! Hails from Brazil! 
Congrats for the 3rd place, [[ABC]]! Aiming the crown? 
U have work to do now, [[Pulsar]] ;). Answering your question, im not planning anything by now... Too much work, no time for fun now. But maybe ahead we will try something, i definately(?) miss robocoding...
Again, salutes to u all robocoders. Build the best, destroy the rest! -- [[Axe]]
 
I'm always aiming for the crown, who isn't? ;) Take your time to return, I had (almost) forgotten how tiring robocode can be, when you'r not coding you are thinking about what to try next. It's an obsession! -- [[ABC]]

Yeah u are right, indeed... It´s in the blood, isn´t? Or you do it deeply, or u better don´t do it at all. The night that [[Pulsar]] wrote me his post, i already noticed that u where(was?) doing updates. Tryied to post a response like that: "ABC seems back, if i where(?) u all, I´ll start to shake, I´´ll start to coff..". But i´ve got problems in my connection, and later was too late... Like the crowd use to shout here, in the Maracanã after a goal: "Haaaaá! Eu Já sabiaaaaaaá!". ;) Keep on pushing up the limits! For those about to robocode, we salute you!!! -- [[Axe]]

Btw, a question to u all robocoders: I was thinking in putting, in a temporary base, [[SilverFist]] back. Only to see where it would stand, and after that i´ll take it out. Anyone have a problem with that? [[PEZ]] (where r u, man...)? -- [[Axe]]

I definitely have no problem with that! As a newcomer to Robocode, I've only read about this legendary monster, and I'd love to get to see it in action :) (From what I understand, PEZ is <A HREF="https://www.halowiki.net">playing Halo</A>.) -- [[Voidious]]

Naughty boy that [[PEZ]], ain´t him? I´ll try to contact him anyway, let´s see if those old adresses that i have r still valid... 
Welcome to the battle, [[Voidious]]! Very impressive that #32 for a first bot. Keep the good work, new quality blood is a bless. -- [[Axe]]

Yes, SilverFist is always welcome. We made an interesting experiment a while ago, AShadow (Shadow's movement + Ascendant's gun). I don't know if you saw it, but the result was AShadow > Ascendant. ;) -- [[ABC]]

Lots of Halo 2 for this guy, yes. And even more maintaing https://halowiki.net and my Halo 2 clan (https://clanofbobs.org/). Halo 2 is cool in many ways, but it is far from as friendly as the Robocode scene. I miss you guys! And I will probably now try to put some focus back on Robocode. How fun could it be for an [[Ascendant]] without something to ascend? =) -- [[PEZ]]

HA! The old and good [[PEZ]], now a.k.a. "Halo man"? :)
I´ll take a look at that Halo stuff, if it´s good for [[PEZ]]... But my guts says that RC is invencible! Even i´m beeing more than a year far from the rc coding, I still sometimes catch myself wondering about angles, neural and statistic approachs for aiming & moving... 
But as i said, for the next weeks i´ll be just the Work-Axe-Holic, no time for fun-coding (althought i still squeeze some time for Beers, friends & women). Beeing a single again since dec-2005, it´s time for changing, the rock must roll, "O mundo gira, a Lusitana roda!" (i really dont think that this can be easily translated, perhaps ABC could). As PEZ, im trying new games too, Kenjutso & Kendo, and its sometimes amazing how life imitates the code... Sword fighting aint that different from robocoding at all!
Talk 2 much, i now. 2 much from me, i now 2. But as PEZ, I miss you guys 2! (2 much 2s? Or 2 much muches? :)) 
Well, ill try a taste of rc today, [[PEZ]] agreed with my little [[SilverFist]] test, and since no one was against it... I´ll remove it when stable in rank, so it´s only a test. But i´m curious about how it will perform in this new environment. This is the old version, from 2004 september, i think. No updates at all. I think that it reached 2078. Lets see now. -- [[Axe]]

SilverFist ended afterall w/ 2045 pts., irc, it was 2078 more than a(n?) year ago. It was a King at his time, but now it ended in a draw with SilverSurfer at 5th... The competition is definately toughter... -- [[Axe]]

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