Core War

🤖 CORE WAR TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🤖 The Core War Tournament Weekend will return to the Retro Computer Festival in Cambridge, UK on 14-15 November. We'll be running 4 tournaments over the weekend: 88, 94nop, limited process, and 94x. More details at corewar.co.uk/tournamentwe... #corewar

I translated fruit fly genes to RedCode assembly instructions and let them play a KOTH CoreWar tournament against each other. Your process dies if you execute a stop codon

🤖 RubyMARS is a tiny CWS'94-compatible Core War simulator written in 105 lines of Ruby corewar.co.uk/rubymars.htm #corewar #rubylang

MTS MARS Tournament Scheduler has been updated. Bugs fixed include self-fight scores, benchmark scores, warrior names with leading digits, and score overflow corewar.co.uk/tools/mtsv16... #corewar

Core War Challenge (Difficult): Write a program to spawn 8000 processes and fill the entire core with JMP 0 instructions, with one process running each JMP. If you solve the challenge, please share the program length and cycles, but not the code. #corewar

This year's Core War Tournament Weekend is over. Congrats to inversed who claimed first place in Sunday's 94 tournament: 1st "Twin Storms" by inversed 2nd "King Cobra" by inversed 3rd "smart clear" by Christian Schmidt 4th "Flaking Rust" by lain 5th "HELLHAMMER" by Drugganator #corewar #retrofest

A few demos running on day one of the Retro Computer Fest in Cambridge. v5 of the Core War simulated annealing script on a Milk-V MARS, Core War on the FUSE #zxspectrum emulator on HaikuOS and Core War genetic algorithms on a Raspberry Pi 3B #retrofest #corewar

The 88 Core War Tournament is over! Congratulations to Inversed. #corewar 1st "Semiopacity" by inversed 2nd "Janus" by inversed 3rd "chaoscan" by Christian Schmidt 4th "TrItE Fighter 5" by Philip Thorne 5th "Bewitching'88" by S.Fernandes

⭐ Core War tournament reminder... the deadline for the 88 tournament is at 11:30am (GMT) on Saturday 15th November. Entries currently received from two players. corewar.co.uk/tournamentwe... #corewar

20 years ago - Mandragora entered the KOTH 94nop hill on this day in 2005. A clear/imp with a g2-style SPL/DAT clear and vortex-launched imps corewar.co.uk/mandragora.htm

🏆 Congratulations to Inversed and Dave Hillis, who claimed first and second place in the Nano Core War Challenge with Reptiloid Supremacy, Reptiloid Conspiracy, and Smitten Atrocity. inversed.ru/CoreWar_Chal... #corewar

The Core War Nano Challenge is about to go live... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDBW... #corewar

⏰ TOURNAMENT REMINDER - the entry deadline for the Nano Core War Challenge is at 10:00 UTC on Sunday 15th June. Please ask on the Core War Discord if you need any help. ▫️ Discord - discord.gg/YxrbaQDT9z ▫️ Tournament page - inversed.ru/CoreWar_Chal... #corewar

⭐ CORE WAR TOURNAMENT ANOUNCEMENT ⭐ Inversed has announced the Nano Core War Challenge, with a first prize of $100 🙂 Entries will be scored against the Nash equilibrium, and a new equilibrium will be calculated. inversed.ru/CoreWar_Chal... #corewar

Here's a 3D MDS map of the top 100 warriors from the 88 Koenigstuhl. Each point represents a warrior. The closer a point is to another point, the closer the warriors' scores are. #corewar

Creeper was the first computer worm, spreading across ARPANET in 1971 with the message "I’m the creeper, catch me if you can!" Here's the story of Creeper and Reaper, which inspired Core War corewar.co.uk/creeper.htm #corewar

Inversed has created a best counter graph for the nano, tiny and limited process hills, connecting each warrior with the opponent which beats it with the highest score: ▫️▫️ groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co… reddit.com/r/corewar/comm…

Has anyone got access to the issues of Tudomány (the Hungarian edition of Scientific American) with A K Dewdney's Számítógépes Észjáték columns about Memóriaháború (Core War)? Thanks #corewar

"Windows Hothouse, Creating Artificial Life with Visual C++" by Mark Clarkson (1994) has a chapter on Core War.

Inversed has computed the Nash equilibrium for the tiny hill. Ranking is by probability with all warriors scoring the same. For more details, see "Nash equilibrium: Tiny 2022.03.23 groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co…

Results for the grand final of the Corewar Global Masters, "Tiny Survival": 1⃣ Roy van Rijn 2⃣ Inversed 3⃣ Steve Gunnell 4⃣ Sascha Zapf 5⃣ Dave Hillis 6⃣ Wayne Sheppard 7⃣ S.Fernandes 8⃣ John Metcalf 9⃣ RainRat

Entries are in for the Corewar Global Masters. The action will be livestreamed at▫️ Round 1, 10th Feb, 7pm (CET/GMT+1) ▫️ Round 2, 11th Feb, 7pm ▫️ Round 3, 12th Feb, 7pm ▫️ Lower Ranks, 13th Feb, 6pm ▫️ Grand Final, 13th Feb, 8pm Spectators welcome 🙂 twitch.tv/corewarglobal

The 88, 94 and 94x Core War Hall of Fame have been updated: ▫️▫️▫️ corewar.co.uk/halloffame/94x… corewar.co.uk/halloffame/94n… corewar.co.uk/halloffame/88h…

Here's a short optima number calculator in Python using the bomb-free space algorithm. #python #corewar ▫️ corewar.co.uk/optima/optima.…

Imps, rings, spirals and how to launch them corewar.co.uk/imp.htm

📉 Methods for finding Core War optima numbers: ▫️ Closest previous hit ▫️ Distance from midpoint ▫️ Bomb-free space ▫️ Locally Fibonacci steps ▫️ Find-x numbers Sample code corewar.co.uk/optima.htm

Happy Birthday Darwin - the first programming game is 60 years old! Victor Vyssotsky, Douglas McIlroy and Robert Morris created Darwin on an IBM 7090 at Bell Labs in August 1961. corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm

Are there any assembler automata artificial life models missing from this list?: Luna, Venus, Tierra, Avida, Helix, Helix4, Amoeba, Amoeba II, Amoeba III, COMOS, Nidus, Quantum Coreworld, CoreLife, Evolve 4.0, SALTA #alife #ArtificialLife

Does anyone know the source of this John von Neumann quote?: “Life is a process which can be abstracted away from any particular medium.” #Alife #ArtificialLife

It only takes a few clicks to get pMARS up and running on NomadBSD, a persistent live system based on FreeBSD for USB flash drives. #corewar ▫️ Open OctoPkg ▫️ Search for pMARS ▫️ Right click and select install ▫️ Ctrl+M to commit

Are there any warriors similar to Gamma Paper 3.0 which bomb with a small stone then switch to paper? Apart from Gamma Paper I've seen Smooth Noodle Map, Killer Instinct and Leapfrog. #corewar

Are there any warriors similar to Hydra and the Living Dead series which launch multiple copies of very similar tiny bombers / clears? #corewar

🦠💾 A 1980 description of computer viruses. Wetherell heard the term at Livermore where Gregory Benford experimented with the earliest known virus (in Fortran, 1969). ▫️ Wetherell, Charles. "Programming Pastimes and Pleasures." Dr Dobb's Journal (Feb 1980) 36-37. @Brain0verride

Never mind the microbes on Venus, there are Mice on MARS 🙂 #corewar

🤖 Robot Odyssey - "the hardest computer game of all time". Design and program robots to escape from the underground city of Robotropolis. Featured in A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column in Scientific American, July 1985 and Escape from Robotropolis by Fred D'Ignazio.

Some strong new entries on the94nop hill. Steve Gunnell and Anton Marsden have shaken the hill up over the last couple of weeks. #corewar KOTH.org

inversed has published issue 2 of CoreOps, covering silk step interactions#corewar inversed.ru/CoreWar/CoreOp…

Has anyone got access to any of the programming game groups on Yahoo (RoboWar, etc)? I'd love to archive the material before Yahoo delete the groups forever

Has anyone got access to the following issues of Scientific American please? If so I'd really appreciate a pic of the final page of Computer Recreations to check for any Core War news/updates thanks: Apr 1985, Nov 1985, Dec 1985, Mar 1986, May 1986, Nov 1986, Jul 1988, Aug 1988.

Krieg der Kerne #corewar #corewars #retrogaming

"The mod-1 optima numbers for a coresize of F_n are F_{n-1} and F_{n-2}, where (F_n) is the usual Fibonacci sequence." - Morrell's conjecture posted to r.g.c, 10 April 1996