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Core War

Websites
Downloads and links.
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Jason's Corewar project page.  Corewar is a game played by two or more programs written in an assembly language called Redcode. They are run on a virtual computer. The object of the game is to cause all processes of the opposing programs to terminate....
http://ezmo.com/jason/projects/corewar/corewar.html

The official KOTH tournament.
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Corewars King of the Hill  They will gather intelligence, lay false trails and strike at their opponents suddenly and with determination A. K. Dewdney, Scientific American article Corewars, aka Core Wars is a game of warrior vs warrior, programmed by two opponents, and placed into...
http://www.koth.org/

pMARS is the official Core War simulator of the ICWS and the rec.games.corewar newsgroup.
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The pMARS home page  S serves as a test bed for new Redcode standards and tournament styles. It has also been used in genetic algorithm experiments and as an assembly language teaching aid. pMARS is under active development by a group of Core War...
http://www.koth.org/pmars/

Also includes tournaments.
http://corewars.sourceforge.net/

Features information, competions, links, events, and downloads.
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Core War  Wars is a programming game wherein players write Warriors that fight it out to the death in a virtual ring These warriors are written in a special assembly language called Redcode and played in a simulated environment known as MARS...
http://www.corewars.org/

A redcode simulator to embed into applications.
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Exhaust: alternate redcode simulator  S file for how it affects your existing code. Features: Implements the ICWS 94 draft A-field indirect addressing modes, and p-space. A tiny assembler that understands 94 draft load-files. Speed, or in some cases, lack of it. Multi-warrior battles. Tickled...
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jpihlaja/exhaust/exhaust.html

FAQ from the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.corewar.
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Core War Frequently Asked Questions (rec.games.corewar FAQ)  A plain text version of this document is posted every two weeks. The latest hypertext version is available at http homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html and the latest plain text version is available at http homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.txt. This document is currently being maintained by Anton...
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html

Damien Doligez's page. Features information and links.
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Core War  This page is not updated any more Please note that my CW pages are not updated any more. All my corewar related files, including these web pages, the warrior archives, and the Olympus files, are available in This big archive....
http://para.inria.fr/%7edoligez/corewar/

Some information about the R.O.M.E. 68000, a new system for Core War.
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R.O.M.E.68000  This hypertextual document contains some information about the R.O.M.E.68000, a new system for the game called Core War. This game was first described by A.K.Dewdney in Scientific American. Contents Welcome to the R.O.M.E.68000 Home Page Contents What is the R.O.M.E.68000?...
http://www.math.unipd.it/~mezzetti/ROME68000/

Also offers a screenshot, description, and user reviews.
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The Linux Game Tome  Rate this game yourself nbsp Average of 4 Ratings: Pit virtual programs against each other to see which can crash the others. Core Wars is a game which simulates a virtual machine with a number of programs. Each program tries...
http://happypenguin.org/show?Core%20Wars

Java applet version 1.2b for ICWS88 by T. Kentemich and W. Zimmer.
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Mars Programm  Memory Array Redcode Simulator Java-applet-version 1.2b for ICWS88 by T. Kentemich and W.Zimmer (26.06.97) Example-Programs: knirps gnom doctor winzling mice chang1 bholder splitter cerberus Description score-table browsers and applet-viewers GAP-Online updated by Wolfgang Zimmer 26.08.2000...
http://members.gaponline.de/w.zimmer/Mars/Mars.html

A project to create a parallel MARS environment using either a network of transputers or a multi-CPU Power Series SGI machine.
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Parallel Core War  This project is intended for students interested in parallel processing and viral proliferation of programs. The following description is contains paragraphs borrowed from the posting in the rec.games.corewar newsgroup Description: Core War is a game played by two or more...
http://www.cosc.brocku.ca/Project/info/corewar.htm

Runs Redcode programs on a 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
http://www.fazekas.hu/~egmont/zx_eng.html

A stable and complete implementation of Core War.
http://corewar.sourceforge.net/

Source code and binaries.
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 S serves as a test bed for new Redcode standards and tournament styles. It has also been used in genetic algorithm experiments and as an assembly language teaching aid. pMARS is under active development by a group of Core War...
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth/pmars.html

Some slides about using a genetic algorithm for evolving Core Warriors.
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jdr8d/talks/corewar/

A guide to getting started and several downloadable Core Warriors.
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Philip Kendall Core War  My guide to getting started in Core War How to submit a warrior to the online tournaments Some of my warriors The Core Warrior Index The Redcode Maniacs Tournament koth: my replacement for koth.bat ilmari: my program to help with...
http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~pak21/corewar/index.html

HTML versions of the original articles from Scientific American in the 1980's.
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A. K. Dewdney's Scientific American Articles on Core War  Dewdney in which rival programs battle to the death. First written about in Scientific American in the 1980's in the following articles. Please note that these articles are very old, so any addresses and references may be out of date...
http://www.koth.org/info/akdewdney/

A hill with several categories where every program fights every other program.
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CoreWar Koenigstuhl Page  This hill is named after the location of the institute Max-Planck-Institute for Astronomy I worked at until 1997 Koenigstuhl translates to King's Chair Similar to Planar's Mt.Olympus (last update: 1998-08-31) this is an inifnite hill. The difference is that I...
http://www.ociw.edu/~birk/COREWAR/koenigstuhl.html

Links to informational pages, servers, projects, and resources.
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Christoph's CoreWar Page  S is able to interpret the code on a step by step basis so to run battles through there tenure. The redcode language has developed since these early days to a point where a governing board has been created to...
http://www.ociw.edu/~birk/COREWAR/corewar.html

A webring of sites related to Core War.
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The Core War Imp Ring  Ring connects websites related to Core War, a programming game where warriors written in Redcode, an abstract assembly language, fight for survival in the memory of a simulated computer. If you would like to have your site included in the...
http://vyznev.net/corewar/impring/

Contains details of Corewar IRC tournaments, and downloads.
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corewar.co.uk  Corewar is a game played between two or more computer programs on behalf of the players who create them. Known as warriors, these programs are written in Redcode, a low-level language similar to assembly. Warriors battle to eliminate all opponents...
http://corewar.co.uk/

Redcoders Frenzy tournament. Contains schedule, beginner's guides, benchmarks, and links.
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The Corewar Info Page  I am a corewar fan since around 1997. Because of all those dead and old corewar related sites on the web I decided to make my own website providing all usefull informations regarding corewar. Since then I'll try to keep...
http://www.corewar.info/

Martin Ankerl presents a CoreWars simulator.
http://martinus.geekisp.com/rublog.cgi/Projects/CoreWar

A newsletter promoting the game of Core War.
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Corewar Introduction  Welcome to yet another introductory site to Corewars the computer simulation game of strategy played between two or more warriors (aka computer programs) hand-crafted using Redcode an assembly-like programming language. For full information, hills, links and the pmars simulator see...
http://home.pipeline.com/~corewar/

Windows NT/95/98 Core War programs and utilities.
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Phil Knight's Homepage  War is a game played by two or more programs (and vicariously by their authors) written in an assembly language called Redcode and run in a virtual computer called MARS (for Memory Array Redcode Simulator The object of the game...
http://www.corewar.co.uk/knight/