From news-rocq.inria.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!kdmiller Mon May 16 15:17:42 1994 Article: 829 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.tamu.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!kdmiller From: kdmiller@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kenneth D Miller) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: vampire ideas Date: 16 May 1994 06:02:21 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 57 Message-ID: <2r729d$s1g@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> References: <1994May12.171814.1@acad.drake.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vongole.mit.edu In article <1994May12.171814.1@acad.drake.edu> pk6811s@acad.drake.edu writes: >Speaking of vamps, it is possible to use a fixed fang - which may find >a use in someone's program. Here's one way: [mini-vamp deleted] ;redcode ;name The Little Screw ;author kdmiller@athena.mit.edu ;strategy Probably the smallest possible scanning slaver program ptr jmp zot, 0 inc dat #3044, #-3044 s add inc, ptr jmz s, @ptr slt ptr, #10 ;keeps it from zapping itself mov ptr, @ptr jmp s zot spl 0, ptr-1 k mov ptr-1, ;redcode ;name Wuss ;author kdmiller@athena.mit.edu ;strategy About the smallest program you can write that does anything djn 0, <-1 jmp -1 And another... ;redcode ;name Shrimp ;author kdmiller@athena.mit.edu spl 2 jmp 0, <-10 mov 0, 1 Surprisingly enough, they all scored similarly. Scary, eh? -- Ken! "Evil is afoot!" "Really, that's very philosophical, Tick. A foot? I always envisioned evil as a dark, brooding shape with sqinty eyes..."