Core War
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CORE WAR: Hostile Programs Engage in a Battle of Bits https://corewar.co.uk
A few demos running on day one of the Retro Computer Fest in Cambridge. v5 of the Core War simulated annealing script on a Milk-V MARS, Core War on the FUSE #zxspectrum emulator on HaikuOS and Core War genetic algorithms on a Raspberry Pi 3B #retrofest #corewar
November 16, 2025 at 8:00 AM
A few demos running on day one of the Retro Computer Fest in Cambridge. v5 of the Core War simulated annealing script on a Milk-V MARS, Core War on the FUSE #zxspectrum emulator on HaikuOS and Core War genetic algorithms on a Raspberry Pi 3B #retrofest #corewar
Here's a 3D MDS map of the top 100 warriors from the 88 Koenigstuhl. Each point represents a warrior. The closer a point is to another point, the closer the warriors' scores are. #corewar
March 22, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Here's a 3D MDS map of the top 100 warriors from the 88 Koenigstuhl. Each point represents a warrior. The closer a point is to another point, the closer the warriors' scores are. #corewar
Inversed has created a best counter graph for the nano, tiny and limited process hills, connecting each warrior with the opponent which beats it with the highest score:
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March 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Inversed has created a best counter graph for the nano, tiny and limited process hills, connecting each warrior with the opponent which beats it with the highest score:
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groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co… reddit.com/r/corewar/comm…
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"Windows Hothouse, Creating Artificial Life with Visual C++" by Mark Clarkson (1994) has a chapter on Core War.
March 1, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"Windows Hothouse, Creating Artificial Life with Visual C++" by Mark Clarkson (1994) has a chapter on Core War.
Inversed has computed the Nash equilibrium for the tiny hill. Ranking is by probability with all warriors scoring the same. For more details, see "Nash equilibrium: Tiny 2022.03.23
groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co…
groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co…
March 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Inversed has computed the Nash equilibrium for the tiny hill. Ranking is by probability with all warriors scoring the same. For more details, see "Nash equilibrium: Tiny 2022.03.23
groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co…
groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co…
Results for the grand final of the Corewar Global Masters, "Tiny Survival":
1⃣ Roy van Rijn
2⃣ Inversed
3⃣ Steve Gunnell
4⃣ Sascha Zapf
5⃣ Dave Hillis
6⃣ Wayne Sheppard
7⃣ S.Fernandes
8⃣ John Metcalf
9⃣ RainRat
1⃣ Roy van Rijn
2⃣ Inversed
3⃣ Steve Gunnell
4⃣ Sascha Zapf
5⃣ Dave Hillis
6⃣ Wayne Sheppard
7⃣ S.Fernandes
8⃣ John Metcalf
9⃣ RainRat
March 1, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Results for the grand final of the Corewar Global Masters, "Tiny Survival":
1⃣ Roy van Rijn
2⃣ Inversed
3⃣ Steve Gunnell
4⃣ Sascha Zapf
5⃣ Dave Hillis
6⃣ Wayne Sheppard
7⃣ S.Fernandes
8⃣ John Metcalf
9⃣ RainRat
1⃣ Roy van Rijn
2⃣ Inversed
3⃣ Steve Gunnell
4⃣ Sascha Zapf
5⃣ Dave Hillis
6⃣ Wayne Sheppard
7⃣ S.Fernandes
8⃣ John Metcalf
9⃣ RainRat
Entries are in for the Corewar Global Masters. The action will be livestreamed at▫️ Round 1, 10th Feb, 7pm (CET/GMT+1)
▫️ Round 2, 11th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Round 3, 12th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Lower Ranks, 13th Feb, 6pm
▫️ Grand Final, 13th Feb, 8pm
Spectators welcome 🙂
twitch.tv/corewarglobal
▫️ Round 2, 11th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Round 3, 12th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Lower Ranks, 13th Feb, 6pm
▫️ Grand Final, 13th Feb, 8pm
Spectators welcome 🙂
twitch.tv/corewarglobal
March 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Entries are in for the Corewar Global Masters. The action will be livestreamed at▫️ Round 1, 10th Feb, 7pm (CET/GMT+1)
▫️ Round 2, 11th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Round 3, 12th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Lower Ranks, 13th Feb, 6pm
▫️ Grand Final, 13th Feb, 8pm
Spectators welcome 🙂
twitch.tv/corewarglobal
▫️ Round 2, 11th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Round 3, 12th Feb, 7pm
▫️ Lower Ranks, 13th Feb, 6pm
▫️ Grand Final, 13th Feb, 8pm
Spectators welcome 🙂
twitch.tv/corewarglobal
Here's a short optima number calculator in Python using the bomb-free space algorithm. #python #corewar
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March 1, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Here's a short optima number calculator in Python using the bomb-free space algorithm. #python #corewar
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corewar.co.uk/optima/optima.…
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corewar.co.uk/optima/optima.…
Happy Birthday Darwin - the first programming game is 60 years old! Victor Vyssotsky, Douglas McIlroy and Robert Morris created Darwin on an IBM 7090 at Bell Labs in August 1961.
corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm
corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm
March 1, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Happy Birthday Darwin - the first programming game is 60 years old! Victor Vyssotsky, Douglas McIlroy and Robert Morris created Darwin on an IBM 7090 at Bell Labs in August 1961.
corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm
corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm
It only takes a few clicks to get pMARS up and running on NomadBSD, a persistent live system based on FreeBSD for USB flash drives. #corewar
▫️ Open OctoPkg
▫️ Search for pMARS
▫️ Right click and select install
▫️ Ctrl+M to commit
▫️ Open OctoPkg
▫️ Search for pMARS
▫️ Right click and select install
▫️ Ctrl+M to commit
March 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
It only takes a few clicks to get pMARS up and running on NomadBSD, a persistent live system based on FreeBSD for USB flash drives. #corewar
▫️ Open OctoPkg
▫️ Search for pMARS
▫️ Right click and select install
▫️ Ctrl+M to commit
▫️ Open OctoPkg
▫️ Search for pMARS
▫️ Right click and select install
▫️ Ctrl+M to commit
🦠💾 A 1980 description of computer viruses. Wetherell heard the term at Livermore where Gregory Benford experimented with the earliest known virus (in Fortran, 1969).
▫️ Wetherell, Charles. "Programming Pastimes and Pleasures." Dr Dobb's Journal (Feb 1980) 36-37.
@Brain0verride
▫️ Wetherell, Charles. "Programming Pastimes and Pleasures." Dr Dobb's Journal (Feb 1980) 36-37.
@Brain0verride
March 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
🦠💾 A 1980 description of computer viruses. Wetherell heard the term at Livermore where Gregory Benford experimented with the earliest known virus (in Fortran, 1969).
▫️ Wetherell, Charles. "Programming Pastimes and Pleasures." Dr Dobb's Journal (Feb 1980) 36-37.
@Brain0verride
▫️ Wetherell, Charles. "Programming Pastimes and Pleasures." Dr Dobb's Journal (Feb 1980) 36-37.
@Brain0verride
pMARS also compiles successfully with the SDL core display on Linux Mint 20 Ulyana 🙂
March 1, 2025 at 10:45 AM
pMARS also compiles successfully with the SDL core display on Linux Mint 20 Ulyana 🙂
🤖 Robot Odyssey - "the hardest computer game of all time". Design and program robots to escape from the underground city of Robotropolis. Featured in A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column in Scientific American, July 1985 and Escape from Robotropolis by Fred D'Ignazio.
March 1, 2025 at 10:44 AM
🤖 Robot Odyssey - "the hardest computer game of all time". Design and program robots to escape from the underground city of Robotropolis. Featured in A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column in Scientific American, July 1985 and Escape from Robotropolis by Fred D'Ignazio.
March 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🤖 A few robot programs have just been added to the RobotWar archive. Please let me know if you have any which aren't listed yet 😀#apple2
corewar.co.uk/robotwar.htm
corewar.co.uk/robotwar.htm
March 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
🤖 A few robot programs have just been added to the RobotWar archive. Please let me know if you have any which aren't listed yet 😀#apple2
corewar.co.uk/robotwar.htm
corewar.co.uk/robotwar.htm
A self-organising map of the Core War '88 Koenigstuhl, created by mjp in 2002 #datavisualisation #corewar
March 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
A self-organising map of the Core War '88 Koenigstuhl, created by mjp in 2002 #datavisualisation #corewar
"The spirit of corewars...
March 1, 2025 at 10:42 AM
"The spirit of corewars...
