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From: Robert Macrae <ff95@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: My first good warrior?? Any advice?
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1998 18:57:21 -0700
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MTStahl wrote:
 
> ;redcode-88
> ;name Trotsky Icepick
> ;author Max Stahl
> ;assert CORESIZE==8000
> 
> core            	  DAT     0,0
> scan            	  ADD     #1,#0
>                         SEQ     core,scan
>                         DAT     @scan

This is very strange -- it looks as if you suicide every time?

There is a lovely little DAT-scanner called Red Rain. I seem to have
lost my copy but this shows the general idea -- it scans until it finds
a nonzero word, copies a DAT 0,0 onto it and carries on. If I remember, 
the original used just this scheme, but with a mod-1 step so that it 
eventually bombed most words.

;redcode-94
;name RedRain Derivative
;author Robert Macrae
;strategy Small, Dat-Bomer/Scanner after Red Rain.

step    equ     212             ; Mod 4

scan    add.ab  #step, #0
        jmz.b   scan,  @scan
        mov     -3,    @scan
        jmp     scan,  0

        end

-- 

Regards,

Robert Macrae