From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hsno.wco.com!news.wco.com!news Mon Apr 15 11:05:53 1996 Article: 4769 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!hsno.wco.com!news.wco.com!news From: agserm@netwizards.net (Ansel Sermersheim) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Could somebody critique this please? Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 04:49:15 GMT Organization: West Coast Online's News Server - Not responsible for content Lines: 51 Message-ID: <4kskah$b53@news.wco.com> Reply-To: agserm@netwizards.net NNTP-Posting-Host: dial30.netwizards.net X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 This is a warrior that a couple of months ago stuck right around #15 on the b-hill. However, it failed miserably on the pro hill :-( I'm hoping that some kind soul will be kind enough to help me see what I could improve. I think that I've gotten most of the obvious stuff, but it's not doing as well as I think it should be. TIA P.S. Many thanks to Beppe Bezzi (sp?) for encouraging me when I was literally 15 minutes from giving up on corewars entirely. I'm really glad I didn't! ;redcode-94b ;name Forked Lite Ning 4.076 ;author Ansel Greenwood Sermersheim ;strategy incendiary bombing cmp-scanner ;strategy Multiple-pass spl/infinite dat coreclear ;strategy With step size optimized for toasting imps org start1 step1 equ 1295 dat 1, 0 bm1 mov 1, >1 bm2 spl -1, -10 step dat #step1, #step1 hitit mov bm1, @complin mov bm2, *complin;a-field of this & start1 add.f step, complin ;this must be identical complin cmp.a -1, -2 jmp hitit,