Re: A89: corewars
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Re: A89: corewars
(sorry about the previous empty reply)
Corewars is still at least mildly active. See www.koth.org or Corewars
FAQ at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html
The source of corewars is available free, it runs on most machines I can
think of. You could try stripping of most of the user interface and
compile it with tigcc.
Though beside the hack value I doubt anyone would like to play it on their
calculators; There is enough publicly available code to allow cheaters to
kill newbies. Plus why toy with your calc when you can up your codewarrior
to Net to fight for the illustrious title of "King of the Hill" :-)
- Riba
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, rende-6 wrote:
>
> Does anyone remember that *VERY* old game called corewars? I forget exactly
> how it worked, but it basically put aside a chunk of memory as a sort of
> virtual arena. Then people could write short .ASM code that acted sort of
> like a virus and set them loose in the arena to see whose code would win by
> completly wiping out the others code while showing the progress of each
> piece of code in a graphical & text interface. I think it would be really
> cool to do a version of this game for the TI-89 in a way that people could
> then write ASM code and put it on the net so ppl could then download it to
> their calcs to do battle against their own or others code. I'm a cs major,
> and know very rudementary ASM, but am willing to learn more to work on this
> project. If anyone else finds this an interesting idea and knows ASM,
> please e-mail me. I would very much like to make this a reality.
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