Article 1768 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Subject: _Push Off_ Message-ID: <1993Apr21.100141.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 190 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 16:01:41 GMT _PUSH OFF_ A midweek review of Corewar April 21, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. The Standings: # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 38/ 21/ 41 Night Crawler Wayne Sheppard 154 112 2 47/ 44/ 9 Backstabber Anders Ivner 150 32 3 46/ 45/ 8 Agony 5.1 Stefan Strack 148 266 4 35/ 25/ 40 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 145 512 5 44/ 44/ 11 Dragon Spear c w blue 145 214 6 45/ 46/ 9 Medusa's v7 Mintardjo & Strack 144 405 7 33/ 23/ 44 +0 Stormbringer Dan Nabutovsky 143 1542 8 33/ 24/ 43 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 143 1110 9 32/ 22/ 46 Silver Paper W. Mintardjo 143 143 10 43/ 46/ 11 Zipp c w blue 141 21 11 42/ 44/ 14 Sucker 6 Stefan Strack 140 134 12 42/ 45/ 13 Iron Gate Wayne Sheppard 139 1068 13 39/ 40/ 21 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 138 1024 14 30/ 22/ 48 Itt nandor sieben 137 40 15 37/ 37/ 27 Nurgle c w blue 137 95 16 31/ 27/ 42 Full moon Dan Nabutovsky 135 7 17 41/ 48/ 12 cproba nandor sieben 133 39 18 40/ 47/ 13 Emerald 4 P.Kline 132 87 19 32/ 53/ 16 Zoiks! C. Parrinello 110 8 20 24/ 50/ 26 Passport P.Kline 98 1 21 1/ 2/ 1 sub-type-aix c w blue 5 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. The Basics: -Core War Archives are available via anonymous FTP at soda.berkeley.edu in pub/corewar... -FAQ for this newsgroup is available via anonymous FTP at rtfm.mit.edu as pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.z ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. The Scoop: This week we have a little of the old, and a little of the new. For the old, a big round of applause to +0 Stormbringer which passed 1500, and also to A. Ivner whose Leprechaun 1b has joined the over-1000 ranks (the over-the-hill gang? :-) In the new category, S. Adkins released a new version of Core Wars Deluxe (v2.0b) and deserves many thanks for supporting CoreWars. Also Nandor Sieben has created a program 'macroed' which takes limited-shorthand input and creates standard redcode. This may be the beginning of a whole new generation of tools for program-writing. Imagine a program which could process instructions like: - copy the next M lines N times - insert the step-increment that optimally bombs M locations without bombing the previous N locations - make me a copy routine to bootstrap M locations starting at location X and write them at location Y - include xxx-program here - ??? (your imagination needed here) Take note of S. Halvorsen's re-entry into the fray, ImpStop, bearing these warnings: ;Strategy This is my first attempt in a long time, so if you beat ;Strategy me, I'll just have to come back with something worse ! Well, sticks and stones may break my bones, but let's see those scores! :-) Did anyone else note the 'irony' in Wayne's comment announcing the source-posting of Iron Sword: "But it can't score enough, so I post it for the general public." Gee, thanks. Lastly, if I had a program that scored like this, I would probably call it 'pu' too :-) 21 11/ 70/ 19 sub-type-pu c w blue 51 -well, actually I have quite a few programs that score like that :-( ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Outlook: 1 47/ 44/ 9 Backstabber Anders Ivner 151 1 10 30/ 23/ 47 Night Crawler III Wayne Sheppard 137 1 7 45/ 47/ 8 Juggernaut v1.5 Anders Ivner 143 1 2 35/ 18/ 47 Test Crawler Wayne Sheppard 152 1 2 40/ 21/ 40 sub-type-aix c w blue 159 1 10 28/ 19/ 53 proba nandor sieben 138 1 10 43/ 46/ 11 CraMPon c w blue 140 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. The Quick Look: 21 7/ 86/ 7 ik j.layland 28 0 17 24/ 21/ 54 Itt nandor sieben 127 1 21 34/ 62/ 4 ugh j.layland 106 0 21 1/ 0/ 4 Zipp c w blue 6 61 21 19/ 77/ 4 test j.layland 61 0 20 35/ 51/ 14 Irony Wayne Sheppard 120 1 21 30/ 64/ 6 Snake Wayne Sheppard 95 0 21 29/ 61/ 11 Wedge Rodney Schuler 97 0 21 32/ 60/ 8 test1 j.layland 103 0 21 9/ 82/ 9 Dwarfs Andre van Dalen 35 0 21 23/ 69/ 7 Invest Andre van Dalen 77 0 20 33/ 50/ 17 Zoiks! C. Parrinello 116 1 19 39/ 50/ 12 cproba nandor sieben 127 1 21 22/ 24/ 53 p2roba nandor sieben 120 0 21 24/ 70/ 6 spy2.0 Kirk Gorden 79 0 19 33/ 51/ 16 test 2 P.Kline 116 1 21 20/ 74/ 7 Blofeld Fredrik 65 0 18 41/ 48/ 12 CraMPon c w blue 134 1 21 18/ 74/ 7 DemonIV Cormac Walsh 62 0 21 20/ 52/ 28 ImpStop S. Halvorsen 88 0 21 6/ 61/ 33 cmp-add Wayne Sheppard 50 0 20 27/ 68/ 5 Bscanner Wayne Sheppard 86 1 21 4/ 31/ 65 Buzzbomb Paul Bobby 78 0 21 6/ 91/ 3 DNA ring A.T. Crowley 22 0 21 24/ 43/ 33 DemonIII Cormac Walsh 105 0 21 0/ 93/ 7 Dust 1.1 Paul Svensson