A midweek review of Corewar
October 13, 1993
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I. The Standings:
# %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age
1 32/ 14/ 53 Cannonade t12 P.Kline 150 3
2 46/ 42/ 12 Dragon Spear c w blue 149 1257
3 46/ 43/ 11 Iron Gate 1.01 Wayne Sheppard 149 298
4 39/ 31/ 30 QuickFreeze v1.4 P.Kline 147 59
5 41/ 35/ 24 Winter Werewolf 3 W. Mintardjo 146 473
6 44/ 45/ 11 Impurge Fredrik Ohrstrom 144 479
7 46/ 48/ 7 Agony 6.0 Stefan Strack 144 107
8 33/ 25/ 41 Deck of Many Things c w blue 142 17
9 33/ 26/ 41 FlyPaper 3.0 J.Layland 140 579
10 32/ 24/ 44 ttt nandor sieben 140 379
11 31/ 22/ 48 Impact v1.0 Anders Ivner 140 292
12 43/ 47/ 10 Backstabber Anders Ivner 139 53
13 29/ 19/ 52 pMARS pMARS project 138 204
14 40/ 42/ 17 Beholder's Eye v2 W. Mintardjo 138 75
15 31/ 24/ 45 Night Crawler Wayne Sheppard 138 1155
16 30/ 24/ 46 Imprimis 7 P.Kline 136 395
17 25/ 14/ 61 Imps! Imps! Imps! Steven Morrell 136 1
18 37/ 38/ 25 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 136 223
19 35/ 34/ 31 Keystone t13 P.Kline 135 2
20 35/ 36/ 29 Herem VI Anders Ivner 135 327
21 2/ 98/ 0 test P.Kline 7 0
Note: In the future standings will be posted from a run against 'test'
which loses all its battles. This should give a better week-to-week
comparison of scores and rankings.
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II. The Basics:
-Core War Archives, including many helpful articles, warrior source
code, and reliable emulators, are available via anonymous FTP
at soda.berkeley.edu in pub/corewar.
-FAQ for this newsgroup is available via anonymous FTP at
rtfm.mit.edu as pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.z
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III. The Scoop:
Knock-down, spit-in-your-face, tooth-and-nail. That's the kind of competition
we *like*. And this week's fun has been provided by S. Morrell, B. Kilian,
M. Nonemacher, and M. Constant, among others. All had a warrior on KotH,
at least briefly, and all had them knocked off. But all are still trying -
keep it up!
C.W. Blue is still hammering away, throwing up some oldies, and trying
out his new Vampyre. Looks like it needs just a bit of work :-)
And it's just Thomsen and I left in the Fall tournament. Good luck
Brandt, break a leg or something :-) Hmm, last time I said that I lost.
KotH was down last weekend. Seems like we take it for granted
sometimes. Everybody send WMS a note thanking him for providing this
excellent (and cheap) entertainment!
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IV. The Outlook:
2 29/ 16/ 55 Cannonade t7 P.Kline 143 1
5 42/ 45/ 13 sub-type-cmp c w blue 139 1
8 32/ 27/ 40 Deck of Many Things c w blue 137 1
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V. The Quick Look:
12 24/ 13/ 63 Imps! Imps! Imps! Steven Morrell 135 1
15 35/ 39/ 26 SuperDoom II Bryan Kilian 131 1
20 4/ 43/ 54 Imps Daniel Parnell 65 1
20 23/ 24/ 53 Wriggler IV Geoff Rehmet 122 1
20 27/ 27/ 47 Hydra Stephen Linhart 127 1
20 36/ 54/ 10 death Steven Morrell 118 1
20 39/ 57/ 4 stoned again c w blue 121 1
21 0/ 47/ 53 Unknown Hans 53 0
21 0/ 64/ 36 skyshow Matthew Aldous (thec 36 0
21 0/ 88/ 12 Quiz Jon Moore 12 0
21 2/ 98/ 0 Login Hans 7 0
21 2/ 98/ 0 Logout Hans 7 0
21 13/ 48/ 39 anti-imp paper c w blue 77 0
21 13/ 83/ 4 Unknown Anders Ivner 44 0
21 16/ 50/ 34 Nevermore/ICWS'88 4.1 Jeff Raven 82 0
21 17/ 75/ 8 fastclear Unknown 60 0
21 19/ 64/ 16 Mad Bomber v1.0 Mike Nonemacher 75 0
21 19/ 67/ 14 Morticia v2.0 Mike Nonemacher 72 0
21 20/ 59/ 22 SpeedyImp Michael Constant 81 0
21 21/ 72/ 6 Simpledwarf Dewdney (copied by B 70 0
21 22/ 42/ 36 Hydra II Stephen Linhart 102 0
21 23/ 26/ 51 Red Baron v3.31 Mike Nonemacher 119 0
21 23/ 36/ 41 toilet paper v1.0 Steven Morrell 110 0
21 23/ 48/ 29 SpeedyImp v1.1 Michael Constant 99 0
21 24/ 29/ 47 Red Baron v4.0 Mike Nonemacher 119 0
21 24/ 38/ 37 Disruptor v3.0 Fumitaka Hayashi 111 0
21 24/ 63/ 14 Something or Other Michael Constant 85 0
21 25/ 67/ 8 another test Anders Ivner 83 0
21 27/ 33/ 40 Hunger Pangs Steven Morrell 121 0
21 31/ 46/ 23 ripoff Steven Morrell 117 0
21 31/ 53/ 16 Crystal Vampyre c w blue 109 0
21 32/ 49/ 19 sub-type-os c w blue 114 0
21 33/ 52/ 15 Early Bird c w blue 114 0
21 34/ 45/ 21 Distance v6.4 Brant D. Thomsen 124 0
21 34/ 45/ 21 Thundering buttocks J Horwich 123 0
21 34/ 51/ 16 Vampyre c w blue 117 0
21 34/ 58/ 8 Samson ]I[ Bryan Kilian 110 0
21 37/ 56/ 7 Samson v2 Bryan Kilian 118 0
21 38/ 49/ 13 All That Glitters v5.1 Mike Nonemacher 126 0
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VI. The Hint:
A couple of issues back I posted this imp-spiral launch code:
boot equ 1000
impsize equ 2667
start mov imp,imp+boot
spl 1 ; <- add more splits for longer spiral
spl 1
spl s2
s1 jmp @0,imp+boot
s2 add imp,s1
dat #0 ; die or jump to stone/vamp/???
I also suggested that the extra processes that die on the last DAT #0
line could be put to work in a stone or something. THAT WAS A BAD IDEA.
Those extra processes should be left to die immediately. What happens
is that they execute alternately with the processes in the spiral, thus
weakening the spiral. Ideally, the spiral processes all execute in turn,
then any others in your program, then the spiral processes again, etc.
Hmm, there may be some fighters on the Hill that could stand this hint :-)
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VII. The End:
Paul Kline
pk6811s@acad.drake.edu