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Re: Core War

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Post by dennajort » Sat, Feb 12, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC

lelouch11 wrote: post #30

dennajort wrote: post #26

I 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.

This is the most complete description I found (I don't have my original one sorry), in french also http://oxyde.free.fr/projets/vm.html I can provide a list of champions source code (asm) that was provided to test all of that. Also found this project that looks quite complete https://github.com/ClementBolin/Corewar_Epitech

Re: Core War

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Post by Doxin » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC

shagie wrote: post #27

Koth 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.

AFAIK it runs when you submit a warrior, Of course these days that's not super frequent, but it's not like you need to wait days after submitting a warrior either.

Re: Core War

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Post by Doxin » Mon, Feb 14, 2022, 1:02 PM UTC

ionchannel wrote: post #35

I came across this game in the late 90s and the impression that I got at the time was that I had missed the boat and the game was essentially "solved" and the best programs were already known. Is this not the case?

It's definitely not solved yet. The various king of the hill servers are still ever changing. I figure it's a rock-paper-scissors type thing: there's no one ultimate best solution.

That said, the warriors have gotten crazy good so getting a spot in the top 10 is very hard.