From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!news-raspail.gip.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!ccbbs.demon.co.uk!chaos.camelot.co.uk!p18.f94.chaos.camelot.co.uk!John.Metcalf Tue May 19 13:03:24 1998 Article: 9056 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!oleane!news-raspail.gip.net!news-lond.gip.net!news.gsl.net!gip.net!dispose.news.demon.net!demon!news.demon.co.uk!demon!ccbbs.demon.co.uk!chaos.camelot.co.uk!p18.f94.chaos.camelot.co.uk!John.Metcalf From: John.Metcalf@p18.f94.chaos.camelot.co.uk (John Metcalf) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Any comments? Fire-master Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 10:59:00 GMT Organization: Chaos Cottage BBS InterNet GateWay Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: ccbbs.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: ccbbs.demon.co.uk:194.222.25.133 X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 895523379 nnrp-06:24127 NO-IDENT ccbbs.demon.co.uk:194.222.25.133 X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net Lines: 59 Greetings... P> Help!!! Is it me or the the -94 hill is thousand times harder P> than the -b one?? I've got as high as 3rd on the b hill (and P> as low as 21st),but i can't even get 25th on the 94 hill :( JM> I can't comment. However you could always try Fire-master JM> on the 94x (baby) hill with a different step size. My Incisor+ JM> entered the small core hill at 5th, and is much lower on the JM> beginners' hill than your Fire-master. Besides, the baby hill JM> needs a bit more traffic... I notice your Fire-master does pretty well. It seems the top of the 94x (baby) hill is mostly oneshots and paper at the moment. There is already a warrior called Fire Master BTW, on Koth's 94x (large) hill... I utterly agree with you comment on writing p-warriors where the components are all written by other people. Where is the fun in that? Anyway, below is a copy of my Incisor+ which is a .5c mod4 oneshot with a spl/spl/dat clear. Cheers, John ;redcode-94x quiet ;name Incisor+ ;author John Metcalf ;strategy .5c oneshot -> spl/spl/dat clear ;assert CORESIZE==8000 || CORESIZE==800 for CORESIZE==8000 step equ 3364 rof for CORESIZE==800 step equ 324 rof on: dat sp2, loop+step+1 sp2: spl #sp1-on, <1+d-on dat 0, 0 st: add #step+1, on ii: jmz.f st, on mov *on, >on jmp loop, >on-1 d: dat