CoreWars, EuWar, etc.
>A related topic is CoreWars. You write little programs that operate
>in a virtual computer. The idea is for players to submit different
>programs that operate in the same space at the same time and see
>which one survives. The little warrior programs are very much like
>viruses, but since the whole thing operates on a virtual computer
>there is no danger of infecting the real world.
I read about CoreWars in a tech paper about polymorphic viruses, and it
sounded *really* interesting, so I researched it...
>I've looked at CoreWars in the past - there's a pretty active
>internet community that plays it.
...and found exactly what Martin found. They even have special dedicated
servers that take submitted warriors and have them compete against each
other, then mail the authors the results; pretty neat, huh? :)
>Would anyone here be interested in getting together to create a
>Euphoria Corewars environment? That way, we could all start
>together and compete at the same level of experience.
YES! I'm not that fluent in Euphoria yet (but I'm working on it over the
summer to fix that), but I'd love to do this! I tried learning Redcode
(the pseudo-assember language that CoreWars warriors are written in), but
the learning curve is so steep that I failed miserably. A "Redcode" that
we could all develop together would be great; that way we could all help
each other, and newbies too.
If we *do* do this, a big question would be: are we going to write the
warriors in Euphoria, a modified subset of Euphoria, or a whole new
language?
I think this would be a great project, especially for those of us who
either need practice with Euphoria, or want something fun to do :D
----->Buddy
budmeister1 at juno.com
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