From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!nntp.farm.idt.net!franz Wed Feb 26 13:13:29 1997 Article: 7153 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!nntp.farm.idt.net!franz From: franz@azstarnet.com (George Lebl) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Archer II Date: 25 Feb 1997 23:02:07 GMT Organization: IDT Lines: 46 Message-ID: Reply-To: franz@azstarnet.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.245.121.155 X-Newsreader: slrn (0.9.2.0 BETA UNIX) couldn't resist ... so i went and made a few changes ... this version is weaker against scanners, and the scores from my benchmark are about the same as they were for archer 1 BUT this seems to be a more balanced warrior, still some improvements remain to be made ... I just sent it to the hill ... I expect it to get a 90 it's tied with rave and impfinity in my tests ... fast fast fast kills it real quick ... ;redcode-94 ;name Archer II ;author Franz ;strategy 66% f.scan oneshot ... with some instant damage ... mod-4 now ;strategy using add/sub/jmz scan and d-clear ;assert CORESIZE==8000 sstep equ 2936 stscn equ (step+sstep) org scan step dat.f sstep,sstep ;this will be found ptr dat stscn+4,stscn ;dclear is here to kill some imps dat 0,0 dat 0,0 dat 0,0 loop add.f step, @scan+1 ;slight decrement protection scan sub.f *ptr,@ptr jmz.f loop,@ptr wipe spl #0,<0 ;invisible (will have decrement on -1 line ;will it help???? ) mov bomb,>ptr djn.f wipe+1,>ptr bomb dat >5334,20 end -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sex Pistols RULE!!! franz@azstarnet.com