Article 1751 of rec.games.corewar: Path: hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!caen!kuhub.cc.ukans.edu!moe.ksu.ksu.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: _Push Off_ Message-ID: <1993Apr14.093317.1@acad.drake.edu> From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 15:33:17 GMT Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Lines: 170 _PUSH OFF_ A midweek review of Corewar April 14, 1993 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. The Standings: # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 40/ 20/ 40 Night Crawler Wayne Sheppard 159 44 2 49/ 41/ 11 Dragon Spear c w blue 157 146 3 38/ 20/ 41 NC III Wayne Sheppard 156 1 4 48/ 41/ 12 Zipp c w blue 155 15 5 48/ 44/ 8 Agony 5.1 Stefan Strack 152 198 6 37/ 23/ 40 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 150 444 7 47/ 45/ 8 Medusa's v7 Mintardjo & Strack 150 337 8 34/ 24/ 42 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 144 1042 9 43/ 44/ 12 Iron Gate Wayne Sheppard 143 1000 10 32/ 22/ 46 +0 Stormbringer Dan Nabutovsky 142 1474 11 30/ 20/ 50 It nandor sieben 141 6 12 38/ 37/ 24 Leprechaun 1b Anders Ivner 139 956 13 42/ 47/ 11 Pippin v2.0 Arno M. Fuhlendorf 138 3 14 36/ 37/ 28 Nurgle c w blue 135 27 15 29/ 25/ 46 Silver Paper W. Mintardjo 133 75 16 40/ 48/ 12 Emerald 4 P.Kline 133 19 17 39/ 46/ 15 Sucker 6 Stefan Strack 131 66 18 39/ 48/ 12 Charon v9.0 Cisek,Strack,Kline 131 31 19 36/ 46/ 18 Eclipse III P.Kline 126 16 20 27/ 30/ 43 Consumption v2.0 Arno M. Fuhlendorf 124 8 21 12/ 78/ 10 Invest Andre van Dalen 47 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. The Basics: -Core War Archives are available via anonymous FTP at soda.berkeley.edu in pub/corewar... -FAQ for this newsgroup is available via anonymous FTP at rtfm.mit.edu as pub/usenet/news.answers/games/corewar-faq.z ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. The Scoop: Last week this newsletter reported the premature demise of W. Sheppard's Night warrior, the first of several long-standing imp-stone programs to fall of the Hill in months. Well, Mr. Sheppard did not take that kindly, no-siree-bob! He has unleashed a series of new fighters in what can only be called "The Week of Wayne's Weveange!". Cover your eyes children :-) First to fall victim to Wayne's attack was S. Strack's much-emulated Sucker 5, at the ripe old age of 1261. We all remember that Sucker 4 fell off the Hill just before making 1000 (when imps reappeared), so we could almost consider this an effective age of over 2000 -- almost! Course it didn't take long for Sucker 6 to appear and stake out a claim, (though it's not riding as high as it used to). Wayne's second victim was N. Sieben's mysterious 'It', another imp-stone program of long-standing (1282). Many times It seemed to be up when other imps were down and down when others were up. Just recently, It was sharing the top 5 with four scanners. But an unfortunate combination of opponents, and a determined Sheppard-attack was all-she-wrote for It. No telling yet how successful the new version of It will be :-). Not content to just knock fighters off of KotH, Wayne released his own stone-imp program, Night Crawler. Studying all those opponents must have given him an idea, 'cause NC is sitting pretty on top of the Hill. On top of that, his Iron Gate made 1000 just in time for this edition (hey, even electronic newsletters have lead times :-) D. Nabutovsky's +0 Stormbringer now has a 400+ lead in the geriatrics competition and still looks tough. Other programs of note to fall this week included Moonstone 1 by D. Nabutovsky (207), a surprising effective stone, and Paratroops v2.1 (393) by W. Mintardjo, which used a scan->bomb->multi-bomber strategy to good effect. Congrats to W. Mintardjo, whose Sphinx v2.8 has now passed 1000 challenges. A. Ma was kept busy handling bug-reports for his new Corewars emulator. As the old saying goes, 'if you never write anything, you will never get written up' or something like that. Hope you get time to work on fighters this week :-) C.W. Blue is a quiet fellow -- quietly been taking over the Hill :-) His Dragon Spear, Zipp, and Nurgle (and assorted sub-type-xxx's) are beating up on a lot of good fighters. Keep it up! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Outlook: 6 34/ 23/ 43 Silver Paper W. Mintardjo 145 1 7 43/ 43/ 14 Charon v9.0 Cisek,Strack,Kline 144 1 7 44/ 40/ 15 Sucker 6 Stefan Strack 149 1 10 39/ 36/ 25 Nurgle c w blue 142 1 6 36/ 24/ 40 Bronze Paper W. Mintardjo 149 1 3 49/ 40/ 11 Zipp c w blue 159 1 1 43/ 20/ 36 Night Crawler Wayne Sheppard 166 4 4 38/ 22/ 40 Test Wayne Sheppard 155 1 2 40/ 20/ 40 NC II Wayne Sheppard 160 1 2 36/ 20/ 44 NC III Wayne Sheppard 151 1 10 28/ 20/ 52 It nandor sieben 136 1 10 39/ 43/ 18 sub-type-ps c w blue 136 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. The Quick Look: 21 32/ 47/ 22 v5 j.layland 116 0 21 9/ 82/ 9 Get Andre van Dalen 35 0 19 31/ 44/ 25 Rain Wayne Sheppard 119 1 21 14/ 85/ 1 seer Hank Turowski 43 0 21 30/ 32/ 37 test Unknown 129 2 21 31/ 66/ 3 Dwarf Magnus 96 0 20 26/ 68/ 5 Hunter Hank Turowski 84 1 20 23/ 59/ 18 Invest Andre van Dalen 88 1 20 27/ 30/ 43 Jester c w blue 123 1 21 28/ 50/ 22 Plasma Wayne Sheppard 106 0 21 28/ 36/ 37 Scaper c w blue 119 0 21 23/ 30/ 47 p2roba nandor sieben 115 0 21 11/ 84/ 6 Boinger Jason Grundy 38 0 21 38/ 51/ 12 CraMPon c w blue 125 0 21 20/ 68/ 12 DemonIV Cormac Walsh 71 0 21 27/ 42/ 31 DemonIII Cormac Walsh 111 0 21 21/ 73/ 6 Diplomat Rodney Kinney 68 0 20 28/ 35/ 37 RotLD 2.2 nandor sieben 121 1 21 3/ 67/ 30 Wimp v1.0 Brant D. Thomsen 40 0 19 33/ 48/ 20 Eclipse II P.Kline 118 1 18 40/ 51/ 10 Iron Fence Wayne Sheppard 129 1 21 1/ 90/ 9 LERSSI III Arto Vuori 12 0 18 39/ 46/ 15 Tomb Stone c w blue 132 1 20 21/ 78/ 1 sub-type-b c w blue 64 1 20 4/ 64/ 32 Ground-Zero E. J. Andrews 45 1 21 25/ 72/ 2 dumb bomber Hank Turowski 78 0 21 26/ 55/ 20 Ground-Zero+ E. J. Andrews 97 0 20 1/ 41/ 58 Hand of Doom Jarkko Lindblad 61 1 20 38/ 57/ 5 Stoned Again c w blue 120 1 21 33/ 52/ 15 sub-type-cmp c w blue 114 0 21 24/ 64/ 11 Diplomat 1.03 Rodney Kinney 84 0 21 27/ 55/ 18 Distance v1.1 Brant D. Thomsen 99 0 21 26/ 58/ 16 Distance v2.0 Brant D. Thomsen 95 0 21 32/ 39/ 29 Salamander II Anders Ivner 125 0 21 0/ 88/ 12 Validate 1.0R Stefan Strack 12 0 21 9/ 91/ 0 cheap-scanner A.T. Crowley 26 0 21 30/ 43/ 27 Am I Evil 10.0 Jarkko Lindblad 117 0 21 11/ 52/ 37 BscannerBomber Wayne Sheppard 70 0 20 37/ 47/ 16 Moonstone v1.1 Unknown 127 1 18 28/ 29/ 43 Consumption v2.0 Arno M. Fuhlendorf 128 1 21 23/ 56/ 20 Thundering buttocks Jordan Horwich 90 0 21 14/ 83/ 2 JG-HI2-Hopping Imp 2 Jason Grundy 45 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Hint: Newcomers to the game frequently confuse their recode assembler syntax with actual runtime code. Operators like * / + -, as well as EQU's and parens are only 'assembler' operators, they are evaluated before the program is loaded. An example: mov 100,@2*10 is changed to: mov 100,@20 If you are suspicious that your emulator is not doing what you think it should, take a look at the assembled instructions. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. The End: Paul Kline pk6811s@acad.drake.edu