Article 1779 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!overload.lbl.gov!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Subject: _Push Off_ Message-ID: <1993Apr29.105959.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 160 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 16:59:59 GMT _PUSH OFF_ A midweek review of Corewar April 29, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. The Standings: # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 38/ 23/ 38 Night Crawler Wayne Sheppard 154 163 2 48/ 42/ 10 Backstabber Anders Ivner 154 83 3 46/ 43/ 11 Dragon Spear c w blue 148 265 4 46/ 45/ 9 Agony 5.1 Stefan Strack 146 317 5 44/ 43/ 13 Iron Gate 1.01 Wayne Sheppard 145 21 6 36/ 27/ 38 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 145 563 7 32/ 25/ 43 ttest nandor sieben 140 39 8 39/ 39/ 22 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 140 1075 9 43/ 47/ 10 Medusa's v7 Mintardjo & Strack 139 456 10 32/ 25/ 43 Silver Paper W. Mintardjo 139 194 11 32/ 26/ 42 +0 Stormbringer Dan Nabutovsky 138 1593 12 41/ 45/ 14 a-test nandor sieben 138 41 13 42/ 47/ 11 Pysco IV David Johnson 137 27 14 41/ 44/ 16 Sucker 6 Stefan Strack 137 185 15 32/ 27/ 41 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 137 1161 16 30/ 24/ 45 ittt nandor sieben 136 40 17 36/ 38/ 25 Nurgle c w blue 135 146 18 41/ 47/ 12 Eclipse II P.Kline 134 18 19 39/ 47/ 14 Emerald 4 P.Kline 130 138 20 34/ 48/ 18 Distance v6.0 Brant D. Thomsen 120 1 21 33/ 52/ 15 Wimp v5.0 Brant D. Thomsen 114 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Another member of the OverTheHill Gang was pushed off the Hill this week - W. Sheppard's Iron Gate program which had some success against the imps was pushed off at the ripe old age of 1089. That leaves just three members of the OTH Gang: +0 Stormbringer, Leprechaun 1b, and Sphinx v2.8. We have to look way down the ranks to find the next candidate with a chance at 1000, Imprimis 6. Well, here's one author crossing his fingers, (and wishing he had maybe just left Imprimis 4 or 5 up, they would be there by now :-/ Iron Gate's fall was due in part to a relentless attack by C.W. Blue, who's sub-type-xxx fighters have been appearing all up and down the list from day-to-day. He keeps knocking them off, so it's unclear what he's up to. Is Blue preparing a swarm of tough fighters to release all at once and take over? Stay tuned... The demise of Iron Gate gave rise to speculation that spl-jmp bombing cmp-scanners had lost their competitiveness. Carpet-bombing scanners are still successful, but with Charon and Iron Gate being pushed off, no other spl-jmp bombers were left (as far as I know :). But Wayne gave IG some new points, plugs, and paint - and now Iron Gate 1.01 is ranked fifth. In last week's _Push Off_ I speculated that Backstabber was a bscan, core-clearing type of program. Anders was kind enough to correct me by revealing it is really a cmp-scanner (with a little different bomb). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Outlook: 8 43/ 47/ 11 Pysco IV David Johnson 139 1 9 44/ 45/ 11 sub-type-cmp c w blue 142 1 7 44/ 45/ 11 sub-type-c c w blue 144 1 8 32/ 24/ 44 Snake-crawler Wayne Sheppard 141 1 5 46/ 46/ 8 Cleaver Wayne Sheppard 145 1 1 34/ 20/ 46 sub-type-i c w blue 148 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. The Quick Look: 21 4/ 56/ 40 Foo Brant D. Thomsen 52 0 21 15/ 54/ 31 Ally Mestern 75 0 20 35/ 52/ 13 Test Wayne Sheppard 117 1 21 29/ 63/ 7 ice2 Ziad 95 0 21 3/ 67/ 29 test P.Kline 40 0 21 32/ 57/ 11 test j.layland 108 0 17 36/ 40/ 24 test Andy Pierce 133 1 21 5/ 58/ 37 Tiger Mester 51 0 21 18/ 51/ 31 Invest Andre van Dalen 84 0 21 10/ 80/ 10 Lots20 Jeffrey Chrisope 40 0 20 24/ 36/ 40 Scaper c w blue 112 1 18 40/ 46/ 15 a-test nandor sieben 134 1 21 12/ 69/ 19 pebble Mestern 55 0 18 41/ 48/ 11 CraMPon c w blue 134 1 21 16/ 82/ 2 Rounder Jussi Vehkalahti 50 0 21 28/ 59/ 13 ccproba nandor sieben 96 0 21 14/ 48/ 38 MPCC 2.1 A.T. Crowley 81 0 21 15/ 30/ 55 Passport P.Kline 100 0 19 32/ 46/ 21 Iron Gate Wayne Sheppard 118 1 21 38/ 49/ 13 Pysco III David Johnson 126 0 20 7/ 73/ 20 Replicant Paul Whittaker 42 1 21 7/ 87/ 6 Vamp kill Fredrik 28 0 19 32/ 44/ 24 Wimp v3.0 Brant D. Thomsen 120 1 21 29/ 37/ 34 Wimp v3.1 Brant D. Thomsen 121 0 21 34/ 54/ 12 Wimp v4.0 Brant D. Thomsen 113 0 21 39/ 48/ 14 Eclipse II P.Kline 130 0 21 13/ 43/ 43 ScareForce P.Kline 84 0 21 0/ 44/ 55 Sludge 1.0 I'd_rather_not_say 57 0 21 21/ 36/ 42 multi mice nandor sieben 106 0 20 38/ 53/ 10 sub-type-c c w blue 123 1 21 26/ 65/ 9 Double Orff Fredrik 88 0 21 16/ 82/ 2 Spreader v1 Jussi Vehkalahti 50 0 21 10/ 85/ 5 White Kross Joshua Houk 34 0 21 0/ 94/ 5 Witchdoctor Paul Whittaker 6 0 20 38/ 50/ 12 ExtraExtra 2 P.Kline 127 1 21 10/ 68/ 21 Parasite v 5 Roderick Easton 53 0 20 23/ 67/ 10 Vamkill Orff Fredrik 78 1 21 24/ 60/ 16 Bubble-scrape Joshua Houk 88 0 20 34/ 48/ 18 Distance v6.0 Brant D. Thomsen 119 1 21 26/ 69/ 5 Improved Dwarf Ben Burch 82 0 20 11/ 51/ 38 Bubble-scrape 2 Joshua Houk 71 1 21 22/ 68/ 10 Mort Aux Vaches Joshua Houk 76 0 21 13/ 40/ 47 White Kross v1.2 Joshua Houk 87 0 21 1/ 64/ 35 Replicant (Nexus 2) Paul Whittaker 39 0 21 2/ 55/ 43 Replicant (Nexus 2 Revisi Paul Whittaker 49 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Hint: How many ways are there to copy code from one place to another? Lots! Here are three ways to copy four lines of code (hide1-hide4): hide1 xxx hide2 yyy hide3 zzz hide4 aaa old dat #0 --------------- copy mov 9 --------------- spl 1 ; multi-process spl 1 ; - you are using multiprocess for other reasons copy mov 8 new spl @0,old+1000 --------------- copy mov 5 new spl @0,old+1000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. The End: Paul Kline pk6811s@acad.drake.edu