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Re: Core Wars

• Posted by Terry Moriarty <terry at EDERNEY.IDPS.CO.UK> Aug 16, 1999
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On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 14:18:56 -0500, Roderick Jackson <rjackson at CSIWEB.COM>
wrote:

>Speaking of different subjects...
>
>A few years ago, I picked up a book called _The Armchair Universe_. It
>is basically a collection of old computer articles. It impressed.....


>....The idea was, you'd write a program that would simulate an 8000-address
>memory array. Then, two people would write programs in a special, small
>scripting language. The goal would be to write a program that would
>destroy the other; executing an invalid command was an automatic loss,
>so you basically shot "zero-bombs" at each other. The articles were
>interesting, and I thought the concept had a lot of potential.
>
>Well, I've just finished a very rough version of Core War myself. I
>had planned on cleaning it up and testing things out a bit more before
>releasing it, but apparently most of my friends around here aren't all
>that interested in it. There's very little motivation if I can't
>eventually compete against someone with it. 
>
>Is anyone on the list interested?.....


Sounds suitably weird
Tell me more.

Terry