From news-rocq.inria.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s Thu Feb 10 14:36:26 1994 Article: 367 of rec.games.corewar Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Subject: _Push Off_ Message-ID: <1994Feb9.152844.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 162 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA Date: Wed, 9 Feb 1994 21:28:44 GMT _PUSH OFF_ A midweek review of Corewar February 9, 1994 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. The Standings: # %W/ %L/ %T Name Author Score Age 1 46/ 37/ 17 SJ-4a J.Layland 154 108 2 37/ 26/ 37 Match Stick c w blue 149 86 3 46/ 44/ 10 Iron Gate 1.1 Wayne Sheppard 148 71 4 44/ 40/ 16 Blitzkrieg Mike Nonemacher 148 101 5 41/ 35/ 24 Winter Werewolf 3 W. Mintardjo 148 917 6 42/ 37/ 22 Christopher Steven Morrell 147 11 7 45/ 44/ 10 Medusa's v5.1 W. Mintardjo 146 111 8 34/ 27/ 39 NC decoy Wayne Sheppard 141 192 9 33/ 26/ 41 Killer instinct Anders Ivner 140 171 10 38/ 36/ 27 Genocide Mike Nonemacher 140 3 11 30/ 20/ 50 Cannonade P.Kline 140 180 12 28/ 17/ 54 test t6 P.Kline 140 1 13 41/ 44/ 14 test-tw Fredrik Ohrstrom 139 75 14 37/ 38/ 25 Clown v8.1 P.E.M & E.C 136 190 15 30/ 24/ 46 Imprimis 7 P.Kline 136 839 16 27/ 19/ 54 ttti nandor sieben 136 187 17 36/ 36/ 28 Double V1.1 P.E.M & E.C 135 8 18 27/ 19/ 54 Walk Between the Raindrop Mike Nonemacher 134 44 19 34/ 37/ 30 Keystone t13 P.Kline 131 446 20 25/ 22/ 53 test Mike Nonemacher 128 2 21 2/ 98/ 0 looking P.Kline 7 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. The Basics: -Core War Archives, including many helpful articles, warrior source code, and reliable emulators, 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: This week's standings show J. Layland's remarkable SJ-4a program on top of the Hill. Layland has combined a 3-line bomber and b-scanner into a very strong competitor. That and a 2-pass spl/dat core clear are putting the heat on some excellent warriors. S. Morrell has challenged us with a new vampire (the only one on KotH to my knowledge). "Throw your best anti-vamp against it" he says :-) Thought we killed those guys off for good, but no, they just wait for a full moon and rise up again. Then there is the mysterious Match Stick which when last published was a paper designed to overtake other paper as well as imps and stones. Somewhere in the last weeks Match Stick took a big jump toward the top of KotH and has stayed in the top 5 or so ever since. Any suggestions for the rest of us, CW? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. The Outlook: 4 35/ 28/ 37 Match Stick c w blue 141 1 5 39/ 34/ 27 Double V1.1 P.E.M & E.C 143 1 6 39/ 38/ 23 Christopher Steven Morrell 139 1 6 40/ 37/ 22 Six Counts of Genocide v2 Mike Nonemacher 144 1 7 38/ 39/ 24 Genocide Mike Nonemacher 136 1 9 27/ 20/ 53 Walk Between the Raindrop Mike Nonemacher 134 1 12 38/ 41/ 21 My wife is pregnant! Steven Morrell 136 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. The Quick Look: 19 14/ 39/ 47 Chaos v2! Gil Richard 89 1 20 17/ 45/ 38 Multibom Gil Richard 90 1 20 23/ 59/ 18 Smartbomb 4.1 Devin Kilminster 87 1 21 0/ 45/ 55 wipe-me Richard 55 0 21 5/ 61/ 34 ImpBuster Gil Richard 50 0 21 5/ 80/ 15 Smartbomber Gil Richard 29 0 21 7/ 88/ 5 The Full-Auto Hopsplat Gu Gil Richard 26 0 21 8/ 75/ 17 Clamp Gil Richard 40 0 21 12/ 81/ 7 Tank Mark Tuempfel 43 0 21 13/ 73/ 14 A Dwarf Gil Richard 53 0 21 13/ 85/ 2 xxx AMP 42 0 21 13/ 86/ 1 NO3 AMP 40 0 21 14/ 78/ 9 cascade 1 Steve Gunnell 49 0 21 29/ 33/ 38 Yop La Boum v2.2 P.E.M & E.C 124 0 21 30/ 52/ 18 Looks Like Lines to Me Steven Morrell 107 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Hint: More and more fighters are going to a 2-pass spl/dat core-clear, filling the entire core with spl-zero then wiping it with dat's. Of the warriors on KotH: SJ-4a, Winter Werewolf 3, and Blitzkrieg all claim to be using a double core-clear (tho' maybe that's what S. Morrell means by "my sister-in-law is having twins" :-). And these are proving to be some very tough hombres. Here is one way to set up a spl/dat core-clear: db dat From here the program moves the dat-bomb at db through core until it overlays c2, turning the spl-0 and dat < into an imp-gate: db dat