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Pokemon battle simulator in C

I intend to make a Pokemon battle simulator in C and would like to work multiple people together on it. I can set up a newsgroup on my NNTP server for the discussion of the project.

Goals:

It must be FOSS.
Written in C, without any dependencies except some parts of the standard library.
Made as a library that can be called by other programs.
The library does not perform any I/O except by FILE objects given by the caller and by callback functions given by the caller.
Accurately implement standard battle rules for all generations, single and double battles and possibly other formats.
Unown's letter (generation II only), Spinda's spots (only some generations), etc.
Team validation for all generations, including customizable rules.
Possibility to modify the program to implement custom variant rules (without too much difficulty).
Improve execution speed, and try to avoid too much RAM usage.
Make the program compatible with older GNU/Linux and BSD systems.

Non-goals:

Pictures, sounds, pokedex descriptions, etc.
User accounts, chat, Elo rating, finding opponents, etc.
Unicode.
AI.

(Some of the things listed in "non-goals" can be done in separate repositories that can be made independently but may also use this Pokemon battle simulator library; however, they are not intended to be a part of this battle simulator library itself, nor included with it.)

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