Core Wars package
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Core Wars overview
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Core Wars were introduced to the world in 1984 by D.G. Jones and A.K. Dewdney. The goal of it, is to write programs in a special assembly-like language called 'red code', which can beat all other programs.

These kind of programs are called 'warriors'. The point is to write a warrior which can find and destroy the enemy, but the size of your code should be small enough to make the same objective as hard as possible for the enemy.

Package
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By using this package you can enjoy core wars on your 8bit Atari. The package is compatible with unofficial ICWS-88 standard. There are also some features from the ICWS-94. You can find the details in RC's manpage.

Here you can find two programs and a lot of examples (source and compiled).

These programs are:

'RC' - red code compiler. This program checks your code, and if everything is well, the compiled warrior is saved to disk.

Then you can use this warrior in the second program - 'MARS' - the virtual computer. This program controls each aspect of your warrior's life - execution, threads, etc...

All tools are managed only by command line parameters.

Credits
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code - bob_er/mec,
redcode.man - Thomas Gettys (see document itself for details).
Thanks flies to Mikey for manuals checking.

See Also
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MARS, RC, REDCODE