From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!comp.vuw.ac.nz!regent.comp.vuw.ac.nz!amarsden Mon Jul 29 17:13:23 1996 Article: 5689 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!comp.vuw.ac.nz!regent.comp.vuw.ac.nz!amarsden From: Anton Marsden Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Core Warrior 40 Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 21:07:24 +1200 Organization: Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Lines: 499 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: regent.comp.vuw.ac.nz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: amarsden@regent.comp.vuw.ac.nz .xX$$x. .x$$$$$$$x. d$$$$$$$$$$$ ,$$$$$$$P' `P' , . $$$$$$P' ' .d b $$$$$P b ,$$x ,$$x ,$$x ,$$b $$. 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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 ______________________________________________________________________________ Greetings. Not much action this week - only 7 challenges (there were actually more but the Hill was reset for some reason). There were quite a few challenges in the weekend though so not everyone's asleep. This issue contains a hint list and Probe. --Anton Marsden ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 38.4/ 24.0/ 37.6 Simple v0.4b Ian Oversby 152.8 19 2 45.6/ 39.4/ 15.0 Blur 2 Anton Marsden 151.7 67 3 46.3/ 43.0/ 10.7 Q^2 Miro Anders Ivner 149.5 118 4 42.3/ 36.4/ 21.3 Probe Anton Marsden 148.3 68 5 43.9/ 40.0/ 16.1 Goldfinch P.Kline 147.9 9 6 44.2/ 41.9/ 14.0 Mist P.Kline 146.5 8 7 28.7/ 12.0/ 59.3 Return Of The Jedimp John K W 145.5 56 8 42.7/ 42.4/ 15.0 myVamp5.4 Paulsson 143.0 116 9 33.0/ 23.2/ 43.9 Armory II John K W 142.8 207 10 33.8/ 25.7/ 40.5 Pulp v0.2 Ian Oversby 141.9 163 11 41.8/ 42.2/ 16.1 Earthquake v0.2 Bjoern & Ian 141.3 25 12 39.5/ 37.7/ 22.9 Yogi Bear P.Kline 141.3 272 13 41.4/ 42.0/ 16.7 Harmony P.Kline 140.7 33 14 38.9/ 37.5/ 23.6 Dura v0.1 Ian Oversby 140.4 97 15 38.6/ 38.0/ 23.4 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 139.3 786 16 30.9/ 23.1/ 46.0 blue flame c1/10 bjoern guenzel 138.7 52 17 30.2/ 22.1/ 47.7 Rosebud Beppe 138.3 741 18 32.9/ 27.6/ 39.6 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 138.2 425 19 38.2/ 39.2/ 22.6 Paper, Scissors and Stone David van Dam 137.3 196 20 25.9/ 15.3/ 58.8 ompega Steven Morrell 136.4 183 21 30.8/ 25.5/ 43.6 Forked Lightning 2.0 Philip Kendall 136.2 1 22 36.4/ 38.4/ 25.2 airBag Paulsson 134.4 109 23 37.5/ 42.0/ 20.6 Twister Beppe Bezzi 133.0 522 24 36.1/ 39.5/ 24.4 Scimitar 2 P.Kline 132.8 134 25 29.1/ 29.4/ 41.5 unrequited love kafka 128.9 2 Weekly age: 7 ( 31 last week, 84 the week before ) New warriors: 2 Turnover/age rate 29% Average age: 176 ( 191 last week, 184 the week before ) Average score: 141 ( 137 last week, 141 the week before ) The top 25 warriors are represented by 13 authors: Kline with 5; Oversby with 4; Bezzi with 3; Guenzel, JKW, Marsden, and Paulsson with 2. King Report: Simple v0.4b and Blur 2 were both on top this week. Kendall makes an appearance on the '94 Hill and kafka's warrior will soon disappear. The only significant loss was the historian. What more can I say? This week wasn't very exciting. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's New # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 25 27.4/ 30.3/ 42.3 unrequited love kafka 124.5 1 16 29.9/ 26.2/ 43.9 Forked Lightning 2.0 Philip Kendall 133.7 1 ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's No More # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 26 37.6/ 49.8/ 12.5 test mef2 Beppe Bezzi 125.4 10 26 1.6/ 1.6/ 0.8 Nephrite John K W 5.6 2 26 1.8/ 2.1/ 0.0 Nephrite John K W 5.5 2 26 29.4/ 35.7/ 34.9 the historian bjoern guenzel 123.1 538 26 36.1/ 53.8/ 10.1 dodger component M R Bremer 118.5 2 26 0.4/ 0.5/ 3.1 unrequited love kafka 4.2 2 26 36.9/ 50.8/ 12.4 pavement lb0.1+400 bjoern guenzel 123.0 5 the historian departs. ______________________________________________________________________________ 94 - What's Old # %W / %L / %T Name Author Score Age 15 38.6/ 38.0/ 23.4 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 139.3 786 17 30.2/ 22.1/ 47.7 Rosebud Beppe 138.3 741 23 37.5/ 42.0/ 20.6 Twister Beppe Bezzi 133.0 522 18 32.9/ 27.6/ 39.6 Jack in the box II Beppe Bezzi 138.2 425 No new entries, one loss. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 Thermite 1.0 Robert Macrae 802 Qscan -> bomber 20 T.N.T. pro Maurizio Vittuari 786 * Bomber 21 Blue Funk 3 Steven Morrell 766 Stone/ imp 22 Night Train Karl Lewin 755 Replicator 23 Rosebud Beppe 741 * Stone/ imp 24 Mirage 1.5 Anton Marsden 736 Scanner/ bomber 25 Blizzard Anton Marsden 713 Qscan -> replicator Rosebud moves up a slot. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 59.4/ 23.3/ 17.3 Yet 4b Justin Kao 195.6 54 2 51.4/ 26.4/ 22.2 Ick v1.5 Justin Kao 176.4 3 3 51.2/ 26.6/ 22.2 Ick v1.5 Justin Kao 175.8 4 4 51.6/ 28.2/ 20.3 Velveeta Shift-F shar 175.0 52 5 45.9/ 20.7/ 33.4 (-: :-) Ross 171.2 77 6 47.3/ 28.6/ 24.1 Saboteur v0.4k shar 166.0 85 7 45.4/ 24.9/ 29.7 Versatility 1.5 Ross Morgan-Linial 165.8 44 8 42.4/ 28.0/ 29.6 Inferno 1.0 Philip Kendall 156.7 67 9 31.9/ 14.0/ 54.2 Microsoft v1.0 Justin Kao 149.8 10 10 25.8/ 14.2/ 60.0 Ties, Ties, Ties! (+2) Ross 137.4 79 11 22.0/ 11.5/ 66.5 Ties and Wasps -s Ross Morgan-Linial 132.6 1 12 23.2/ 14.2/ 62.6 Ties and Wasps Ross 132.2 2 13 20.2/ 10.2/ 69.7 Wasps 1.3 Ross 130.2 78 14 26.5/ 28.1/ 45.4 Utility Knife Robert J. Street 124.9 87 15 16.8/ 10.7/ 72.5 Nematode v1.4b Jonathan Stott 122.9 51 16 16.5/ 10.6/ 72.9 Nematode v1.4e Jonathan Stott 122.3 18 17 18.7/ 15.7/ 65.7 more testing Anonymous 121.7 38 18 18.1/ 19.9/ 62.0 Fork 4/13 Christoph C. Birk 116.2 71 19 15.3/ 38.2/ 46.4 silken stomp harleyQ2 92.5 27 20 6.5/ 22.6/ 70.8 Mama's Boy Robert J. Street 90.4 32 21 12.3/ 34.5/ 53.3 Handy Man Robert J. Street 90.1 45 22 7.8/ 25.8/ 66.4 silkbombQ2 harleyQ2 89.7 50 23 5.9/ 28.5/ 65.5 Snail Edgar 83.4 16 24 10.6/ 38.3/ 51.1 b3 harleyQ2 82.9 19 25 11.5/ 40.4/ 48.1 silken train harleyQ2 82.5 20 Top 25 Averages: 27.4/ 23.4/ 49.3 131.4 41 An average of 49% draws on this Hill indicates there are a lot of papers/imps on it which explains why Yet 4b (qscan -> core clear) is doing so well. A one shot scanner could also obtain a good ranking. ______________________________________________________________________________ The Hint List (001-040) This list was created so that people could easily find what they wanted (and more) without reading every issue of CW. It may be incomplete in parts but does contain most hints/warriors/articles. 001. Replicators (part 1): basic silk [Paperone by Beppe Bezzi] 002. Improving beginner warriors: code compression [Mutagen by Scott Manley] 003. Replicators (part 2): timescape silk, optimising constants (cdb) [paper01o by Beppe Bezzi] 004. Mutagen improved again (improved scanner) Scanners: JMZ, CMP [Iron Gate by Wayne Sheppard] [Agony II by Stefan Strack] Continuously launching imp spirals 005. PSpace basics, brainwashing [juliet and paper by Myer Bremer/Beppe Bezzi] [Thermite 1.0 by Robert Macrae] [Phq by Maurizio Vittuari] 006. Bombers [Blue Funk 3 by Steven Morrell] [juliet storm by Myer Bremer] Mutagen improved yet again (pspaced with small bomber) Continuously launching imp spirals 007. Bombers: bomb types [Ike v.21 by Paul Kilroy] Continuously launching imp spirals [Impfinity v3i by Planar] QScans: where to scan, what order to scan, how to attack, area to attack 008. Imp steps Vampires [myVamp v3.7 by Magnus Paulsson] 009. Improving beginner warriors [Provascan by Beppe Bezzi] [La Bomba by Beppe Bezzi] [A5 by John Wilkinson] CDB tutorial (part 1) 010. Improving beginner warriors: (no) boot, anti-imp clears CDB tutorial (part 2) 011. Bombing/scanning steps [Impfinity v4g1 by Planar] 012. Scanning [Taking Names by Paul Kline] [seventyfive by Anders Ivner] [Porch Swing by Randy Graham] CDB tutorial (part 3) 013. Anti-imp clears 014. Old warriors vs. current warriors CDB tutorial (part 4) 015. Self bombing -> clear 016. Defence: self splitting, adding imps, boot and decoy, active decoys, PSpace, DJN defence. 017. Spiral clears, 100% C DJN stream CDB tutorial (part 5) 018. Bomb effectiveness: SPL, SSJ, S..S, SPL -1, SPL/MOV, etc. 019. Scanners [Memories by Beppe Bezzi] 020. Handshaking 021. How to live longer: score distribution, boot, bombs, brainwashing, imp protection, QScans [Jack in the box by Beppe Bezzi] 022. JMZ scans: A/B/I 023. Wilkinson's beginner's benchmark (warrior review) 024. [Thermite II by Robert Macrae] 025. [Tornado 3.0 by Beppe Bezzi] [Stepping Stone by Kurt Franke] 026. Switching techniques and brainwash recovery [Grilled Octopus v0.5 by David Boeren] 027. Multi boot routines [Grilled Octopus v0.7 by David Boeren] Advanced benchmark scores 028. Bomber killers 029. Imps (launching) [Scanny Boy by David van Dam] 030. Imp killing -F numbers 031. [Rosebud by Beppe Bezzi] [Flurry by Anton Marsden] 032. [P-clear by Paul Kline] mopt tutorial 033. Decoy makers [stoninc by Maurizio Vittuari] 034. 035. A new p-switcher [Twister by Beppe Bezzi] 036. Mirage/Blur scanner series 037. QScans: fast response [Q^2 by Anders Ivner] Mirrored imps 038. Bomb dodgers [Manfred v0.3 by Ian Oversby] [myVamp 5.4 by Magnus Paulsson] 039. A new p-brain [Jack in the Box II by Beppe Bezzi] 040. THIS HINT LIST [Probe by Anton Marsden] ______________________________________________________________________________ Extra Extra Probe by Anton Marsden Probe is a fast response QScan similar to Q^2 followed by the Tornado bomber. It took me a while to put the QScan together but then I just grabbed Tornado from Twister, made a few modifications, named it, and it was complete. ;redcode-94 ;name Probe ;author Anton Marsden ;strategy QScan -> Tornado ;assert CORESIZE==8000 ;kill Probe ORG start QB EQU (start+400) QS EQU 200 QD EQU 100 COUNT EQU 6 GAP EQU 15 REP EQU 6 dat 10*QS, 2*QS ; can get 21 values from this table table: dat 4*QS, 1*QS ; and can also use the initial value dat 23*QS, 3*QS ; of fnd qbomb: jmp -200,GAP qinc: dat GAP,-GAP tab: add.a table,table slow: add.ab @tab,fnd fast: add.b *tab,@slow which: sne.i datz,@fnd add.ab #QD,fnd mov.i qbomb,@fnd fnd: mov.i -GAP/2,@QB add.ba fnd,fnd mov.i qbomb,*fnd add.f qinc,fnd mov.i qbomb,@fnd djn.b -3,#REP jmp boot,}-300 start: seq.i QB+QS*0,QB+QS*0+QD jmp which,}QS*13 ; qinc+GAP seq.i QB+QS*1,QB+QS*1+QD jmp fast,}QB+QS*1+QD/2 seq.i QB+QS*2,QB+QS*2+QD jmp fast,{tab seq.i QB+QS*3,QB+QS*3+QD jmp fast,}tab seq.i QB+QS*13,QB+QS*13+QD jmp fast,{fast seq.i QB+QS*4,QB+QS*4+QD jmp >fast,}QB+QS*4+QD/2 seq.i QB+QS*5,QB+QS*5+QD jmp slow,}QB+QS*5+QD/2 seq.i QB+QS*6,QB+QS*6+QD jmp slow,{tab seq.i QB+QS*7,QB+QS*7+QD jmp slow,}tab seq.i QB+QS*10,QB+QS*10+QD jmp >fast,fast,>tab seq.i QB+QS*24,QB+QS*24+QD jmp slow,>tab seq.i QB+QS*17,QB+QS*17+QD jmp slow,{fast seq.i QB+QS*8,QB+QS*8+QD jmp tab seq.i QB+QS*28,QB+QS*28+QD jmp tab,>tab seq.i QB+QS*30,QB+QS*30+QD jmp tab,}tab ; TORNADO BOMBER step equ -45 away equ 4000 ; not really gate1 equ (gate-4) boot mov gate, }pt2 mov gate, *pt2 pt1 mov last, gate1 mov @djmp, >gate1 djmp djn.b clr, {bombs incr dat >-3*step,>-3*step last bombm dat <1, {1 dat 0,0 datz: dat 0,0 FOR 5 dat 0,0 ROF END ______________________________________________________________________________ Questions? Concerns? Comments? Complaints? Mail them to people who care. authors: Beppe Bezzi or Myer Bremer or Anton Marsden