Article 1669 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: hellgate.utah.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!usc!wupost!uunet!vuse.vanderbilt.edu!stst From: stst@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Stefan Strack) Subject: Sucker 5 Message-ID: Sender: news@vuse.vanderbilt.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: necs Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1993 06:49:12 GMT Lines: 72 Here a veteran of the hill for your redcode collection: Sucker 5, a no-frills (but highly resilient) vampire. It's predecessor, Sucker 4, had almost reached age 1000 when the imps invaded. Sucker 5 adds imp-protection by ending the core clear in the following gate: SPL 0,<-9 JMP 7,<-10 .. .. DAT <-17,#0 This gate was also independently discovered by Matt Hastings (Sauron) and W.Mintardjo (Twilight Pits). Cheers, Stefan (stst@vuse.vanderbilt.edu) -------8<----------8<----------8<------- ;redcode ;name Sucker 5 ;kill prototype ;author Stefan Strack ;strategy Self-splitting, pattern-bombing vampire ;strategy 2: with confusion ;strategy 3: much denser, mod-2 bomb-pattern; no spacer ;strategy 3.1: avoids prematurely dropping into clear-mode ;strategy 4: spacer/bootstrap; changed bomb increment; tracer-proof ;strategy 5: imp-defense ;strategy Submitted: @date@ AWAY equ 4000 ;mirrors boot template mark equ start+39 decloc equ start-9 ;------ bootstrap main bombing loop and slave pit without spacers boot mov bomb,clear+37+AWAY mov loop+2,@ptr1 mov loop+1,