Issue 41 August 5, 1996
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Core Warrior is a weekly newsletter promoting the game of corewar. Emphasis
is placed on the most active hills--currently the '94 draft hill and the
beginner hill. Coverage will follow where ever the action is. If you have
no clue what I'm talking about then check out these five-star internet locals
for more information:
FAQs are available by anonymous FTP from rtfm.mit.edu as
pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.Z
FTP site is: ftp.csua.berkeley.edu /pub/corewar
Web pages are at: (Please note new Stormking's address)
http://www.koth.org/ ;Stormking
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth ;Pizza
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/ ;Planar
Newbies should check the stormking page for the FAQ, language specification,
guides, and tutorials. Post questions to rec.games.corewar. All new players
are infinitely welcome!
If ftp.csua.berkeley.edu is unreachable, you can download pMARS at:
Terry's web page--http://www.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/
Planar ftp site--ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/pmars
Fechter ftp site--ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar
A collection of my hints in the first issues is available at:
ftp://ftp.volftp.vol.it/pub/pc/msdos/games/solutions/bbhints.zip
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Greetings.
Another very quiet week; summer, Olympic games and Pizza down for the week
end are the main causes. Thos implemented the test option to challenge the
hill without aging it. From now on aging will become harder and harder
--Beppe Bezzi
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Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server ICWS '94 Draft Hill:
Hill Specs:
coresize: 8000
max. processes: 8000
duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared.
max. entry length: 100
minimum distance: 100
rounds fought: 200
instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 37.0/ 20.6/ 42.4 unrequited love kafka 153.5 13
2 44.0/ 35.9/ 20.2 Probe Anton Marsden 152.0 93
3 46.8/ 42.6/ 10.6 Q^2 Miro Anders Ivner 151.0 143
4 37.7/ 24.8/ 37.5 Simple v0.4b Ian Oversby 150.7 44
5 43.8/ 39.7/ 16.5 Goldfinch P.Kline 147.9 34
6 44.1/ 40.6/ 15.3 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 147.6 92
7 28.9/ 12.6/ 58.5 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 145.2 81
8 40.7/ 36.8/ 22.5 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 144.6 811
9 43.0/ 41.6/ 15.4 Earthquake v0.2 Bjoern & Ian 144.4 50
10 43.0/ 41.9/ 15.1 myVamp5.4 Paulsson 144.1 141
11 43.5/ 43.1/ 13.4 Mist P.Kline 143.8 33
12 40.7/ 37.8/ 21.4 Test Anton Marsden 143.7 3
13 41.8/ 41.1/ 17.1 Harmony P.Kline 142.5 58
14 31.8/ 21.6/ 46.5 Rosebud Beppe 142.0 766
15 27.7/ 14.2/ 58.1 ompega Steven Morrell 141.2 208
16 39.0/ 38.8/ 22.2 Yogi Bear P.Kline 139.2 297
17 32.9/ 29.2/ 37.9 Pulp v0.2 Ian Oversby 136.6 188
18 29.3/ 22.4/ 48.3 Armory II John K W 136.2 232
19 38.3/ 40.6/ 21.1 Paper, Scissors and Stone David van Dam 136.1 221
20 39.7/ 43.5/ 16.8 Test Sc Ian Oversby 135.8 1
21 38.7/ 41.9/ 19.5 Twister Beppe Bezzi 135.5 547
22 31.0/ 30.8/ 38.1 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 131.3 450
23 26.9/ 24.5/ 48.5 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross Morgan-Linial 129.4 10
24 28.3/ 29.2/ 42.5 Forked Lightning 2.0 Philip Kendall 127.3 26
25 4.0/ 0.0/ 0.0 Dura v0.1 Ian Oversby 12.0 122
Weekly age: 26 ( 7 last week, 31 the week before )
New warriors: 4 Turnover/age rate 15%
Average age: 186 ( 176 last week, 191 the week before )
Average score: 137 ( 141 last week, 137 the week before )
The top 25 warriors are represented by 13 authors: Oversby with 5(5.5 :-);
Kline with 4; Bezzi and Marsden with 3; JKW with 2.
King Report: Blur 2 at the beginning, then Simple until Kafka showed down
with unrequited love. Few challenges this week too.
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94 - What's New
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 34.3/ 17.8/ 47.9 unrequited love kafka 150.7 1
6 39.8/ 38.0/ 22.2 Test Anton Marsden 141.7 1
19 38.7/ 43.8/ 17.5 Test Sc Ian Oversby 133.6 1
24 22.4/ 22.3/ 55.2 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross Morgan-Linial 122.5 1
A new King: unrequited love.
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94 - What's No More
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
26 25.3/ 29.5/ 45.2 unrequited love kafka 121.1 3
26 32.3/ 42.2/ 25.5 Scimitar 2 P.Kline 122.5 139
26 29.5/ 41.6/ 28.9 airBag Paulsson 117.3 126
26 2.5/ 0.3/ 1.2 blue flame c1/10 bjoern guenzel 8.7 72
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94 - What's Old
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
8 40.7/ 36.8/ 22.5 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 144.6 811
14 31.8/ 21.6/ 46.5 Rosebud Beppe 142.0 766
21 38.7/ 41.9/ 19.5 Twister Beppe Bezzi 135.5 547
22 31.0/ 30.8/ 38.1 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 131.3 450
Nothing new from the front.
Yogi Bear is very near, TNT is in good shape, Twister and Jack are suffering.
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HALL OF FAME
* means the warrior is still active.
Pos Name Author Age Strategy
1 Thermite II Robert Macrae 2262 Qscan -> bomber
2 Impfinity v4g1 Planar 1993 Stone/ imp
3 Jack in the box Beppe Bezzi 1620 P-warrior
4 Tornado 3.0 Beppe Bezzi 1567 Bomber
5 Torch t18 P.Kline 1539 Bomber
6 Chameleon Myer R Bremer 1437 P-warrior
7 Frontwards v2 Steven Morrell 1420 One shot scanner
8 Evol Cap 6.6 John Wilkinson 1299 Imp / stone
9 quiz Schitzo 1262 Scanner/ bomber
10 T.N.T. Maurizio Vittuari 1204 Bomber
11 Grilled Octopus v0.5 David Boeren 1154 P-warrior
12 Hazy Shade II John Wilkinson 1102 P-warrior
13 Stepping Stone Kurt Franke 1049 Qscan -> Vampire
14 Iron Gate 1.5 Wayne Sheppard 926 CMP scanner
15 Agony II Stefan Strack 912 CMP scanner
16 Barrage Anton Marsden 876 Qscan -> replicator
17 Blue Funk Steven Morrell 869 Stone/ imp
18 Flurry Anton Marsden 835 Qscan -> pwarrior
19 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 811 * Bomber
20 Thermite 1.0 Robert Macrae 802 Qscan -> bomber
21 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 766 Stone/ imp
21 Rosebud Beppe 766* Stone/ imp
23 Night Train Karl Lewin 755 Replicator
24 Mirage 1.5 Anton Marsden 736 Scanner/ bomber
25 Blizzard Anton Marsden 713 Qscan -> replicator
T.N.T. pro climbs a slot and Rosebud two, pairing Blue Funk 3.
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Current Status of the Internet Pizza Server Beginner's Hill:
Hill Specs:
coresize: 8000
max. processes: 8000
duration: after 80,000 cycles, a tie is declared.
max. entry length: 100
minimum distance: 100
maximum age: At age 100, warriors are retired.
rounds fought: 200
instruction set: ICWS '94 Draft
# %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age
1 53.7/ 24.2/ 22.0 Yet 4b Justin Kao 183.2 80
2 50.8/ 23.6/ 25.6 Versatility 1.5 Ross Morgan-Linial 178.0 70
3 51.2/ 25.6/ 23.2 Ick v1.5 Justin Kao 176.8 26
4 52.9/ 31.3/ 15.8 T-1 w/decoy Ross 174.5 7
5 48.6/ 29.4/ 22.0 Velveeta Shift-F shar 167.9 78
6 46.6/ 36.1/ 17.3 T-1 Ross 157.2 15
7 39.1/ 26.9/ 34.0 Inferno 1.0 Philip Kendall 151.3 93
8 41.4/ 33.1/ 25.4 Vampirism 1.2 Philip Kendall 149.8 1
9 37.1/ 28.8/ 34.1 (-: :-) Ross 145.4 3
10 36.6/ 31.0/ 32.3 TIE Fighter Ross 142.2 2
11 28.8/ 19.6/ 51.6 Microsoft v1.0 Justin Kao 138.0 36
12 27.0/ 18.3/ 54.7 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+3) Ross 135.6 16
13 32.6/ 31.5/ 36.0 Together 0.3 Ilmari Karonen 133.6 4
14 21.0/ 16.4/ 62.7 more testing Anonymous 125.6 64
15 19.4/ 13.6/ 67.0 Nematode v1.4b Jonathan Stott 125.2 77
16 17.0/ 13.7/ 69.3 Nematode v1.4e Jonathan Stott 120.2 44
17 19.9/ 31.5/ 48.6 Fork 4/13 Christoph C. Birk 108.2 97
18 9.5/ 30.1/ 60.4 silkstomp v2.i harleyQ2 88.8 12
19 5.8/ 26.2/ 68.0 Ties Engine Ross 85.4 5
20 8.4/ 32.6/ 59.1 Mama's Boy Robert J. Street 84.2 58
21 8.5/ 50.4/ 41.1 Kill Wasps Ross 66.5 6
22 10.3/ 4.0/ 13.6 Ties and Wasps -s Ross Morgan-Linial 44.7 27
23 9.9/ 7.1/ 3.0 Together 0.2 Ilmari Karonen 32.7 13
24 9.9/ 7.2/ 2.9 Together Ilmari Karonen 32.6 21
25 6.8/ 3.5/ 1.7 TIE Fighter B Ross 22.0 19
26 challenges; Yet is always King.
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The Hint
Sorry no hint this issue.
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Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care.
authors: Beppe Bezzi <bezzi@nemo.it> or Myer Bremer <bremermr@ecn.purdue.edu>
or Anton Marsden <amarsden@comp.vuw.ac.nz>
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