dewdney is a genious, loved reading "The Armchair Universe", " The New Turing Omnibus" while i was in high school, i still go back to re-read, to see his unique fun way of exposition on CS theory
Core War
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#22Sounds like it would fit right in at a King of the Hill CTF challenge.
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#23See also: Darwin (1961).
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#24What are some ways to make Core War a deeper game? Like to reward more complex warriors, and move away from the rock-paper-scissors equilibria. Sort of like how there's that Wikipedia compression contest that includes the compression algorithm's length in the score to prevent gaming it.
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#25Is there implementation that is actively maintained?
CoreWar looks like my ideal programming game. Now I'm playing Zachtronic games (TIS100, Shenzen I/O) and occasionally Robocode.
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#26I remember having done a project like that in my CS school.
We had to do a compiler from some pseudo asm to the binary opcode supported by the corewar VM, the corewar VM itself (you can call it the arena) and a champion and we would fight champions across teams.
Taugh me a lot about opcodes and emulation.
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#27Koth is still running for those who want to try - http://www.koth.org/lcgi-bin/current.pl?hill94 shows "Last battle concluded at : Sun Feb 6 01:34:58 UTC 2022"
... Though that also suggests that it isn't run that often either.
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#28Is there implementation that is actively maintained? CoreWar looks like my ideal programming game. Now I'm playing Zachtronic games (TIS100, Shenzen I/O) and occasionally Robocode.
https://github.com/akosela/pmars appears to be one of the more recently built ones.
It's a pretty much "finished" application.
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#29Core Wars was great!
I spent a good amount of time in the late 90s writing little bots for a similar game, AT-Robots, where you write an assembly type language to program a little laser-shooting robot that could drive around, scan for enemies, etc.
http://necrobones.com/atrobots/
And my best robot: http://necrobones.com/pub/atrobots/robots/unlocked/mj6.at2
Anyway, I loved this kind of thing as a teenager. I felt it really helped me to fall in love with programming and the ability to make things happen by writing code.
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#30I remember having done a project like that in my CS school. We had to do a compiler from some pseudo asm to the binary opcode supported by the corewar VM, the corewar VM itself (you can call it the arena) and a champion and we would fight champions across teams. Taugh me a lot about opcodes and emulation.
Is there a resource available online? Would love to try implementing this.