Talk:OXO (video game)

message: While it often is claimed that A.S. Douglas wrote the game for his PhD thesis, there are no references to that thesis. If that thesis really was written about HCI this would be an extremely early and historically important work on that topic (actually, the expression "human-computer interaction" did not even exist at that time). However, all versions of the OXO-story appear to be highly similar to that found in the "PONG-Story" quotet by the article -- and thus all versions are likewise uninformative and possibly nothing but a myth. In fact, the cambridge university catalogue  only lists one PhD thesis by some A. S. Douglas and that is "Some computations in theoretical physics" dating from 1953 (the other work by that person is: "Use of a High-Speed Digital Computer for the Direct Determination of Crystal Structures").  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.95.160.132 (talk) 08:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Perhaps we should move this article to OXO as that article is empty, or if not, maybe OXO (game) would be more specific.Edit: If no-one has any arguments I'll move the page to OXO. -- Quoth 07:01, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name

message: That it's a picture of a simulator of the original OXO game.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Craigboy (talk • contribs) 00:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's a bit deceptive, and I am considering removing it from the article. It gives the false impression that GUIs were available before the eighties. ←Spidern→ 14:18, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I considered this myself when I first encountered this article.  I believe the image should remain at least somewhere in the article until an image of the actual game can be found (and this may be a bit difficult).  The image caption should say very plainly, and very explicitly, that it is merely an illustration of the game, and not the game itself. It gives an idea of what the system would look like, so it adds to the article. -Verdatum (talk) 14:56, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

text: All that was needed was just adding a few words to the description, saying it is emulated. Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 07:37, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Info about the picture that should be included

message: The article describes OXO as playing "a perfect game of noughts and crosses"; I'm not sure if this is trying to say the the game is an accurate version of noughts and crosses or whether the AI always played the best move. Was it possible to beat the computer? -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:04, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: While I have no sources specific to OXO, I can say that for Tic-Tac-Toe, coding a perfect game, in the sense of a strategy that always results in a win or tie, is pretty trivial.  It's easier than coding a system that makes "believable" mistakes (a problem which continues to be a struggle in game AIs).  It almost certainly means that it only wins or ties. -Verdatum (talk) 14:49, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: AI

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thread_title: File:OXO emulated screenshot.png Nominated for speedy Deletion

message: I'd like to contest the description of the image on this article.
It claims it's from an emulator but it really isn't. An emulator is a piece of software that "tricks" the hardware into running other software that wasn't originally meant to run on alternate hardware. Once "tricked" properly, the software runs exactly as it looked on the original hardware.
A simulator, on the other, is a complete recreation of the item being simulated.
Well, that's exactly what the OXO "emulator" does, it recreates the whole thing so it mimics the functionality of the original item.
I understand the creator of the "emulator" calls it an emulator himself, but it seems clear the author is simply unaware of the difference. The program he made is really a simulator.
That said, should the description of the image be altered to reflect this, or should we keep the word "emulator" but add something like (sic) in front of it?
Opinions, please. Raven-14 (talk) 04:10, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emulator vs Simulator