From: kaukasius@yahoo.de (el kauka)
Subject: irc-tournament relaunch
Date: 1 Feb 2005 09:44:39 -0800
Message-ID: <f889e2e6.0502010944.4dbdd28c@posting.google.com>

hi redcoders,

on saturday 12th february the corewar irc-tournament is going to start
again.

to join the tournament visit the irc chan at 8 p.m GMT

server: irc.koth.org
channel: #corewars

the rules will be announced in the channel and than you will have
30min to write a warrior and send it.

the rules of the first round are going to be pretty easy. any beginner
is welcome to join the tournament!

el kauka


From: kwb@dls.net
Subject: Where can I get 1980's corewar newsletters?
Date: 2 Feb 2005 08:36:06 -0800
Message-ID: <1107362166.860723.258370@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Is there anywhere online that has the original corewar newsletters from
the 1980's? I've been to koth and the other major sites, including
Berkeley, but can't find them. Thanks in advance!



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From: roy.van.rijn@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Where can I get 1980's corewar newsletters?
Date: 3 Feb 2005 07:47:16 -0800
Message-ID: <1107445636.350022.216620@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>


kwb@dls.net wrote:
> Is there anywhere online that has the original corewar newsletters
from
> the 1980's? I've been to koth and the other major sites, including
> Berkeley, but can't find them. Thanks in advance!

You could try to contact John Metcalf (he has a website too). He knows
A LOT about corewars, and has much old (and new) info, maybe he could
help you!

Cheers,

Roy van Rijn

ps. I wasn't even born in 1980...



From: "CoreChild" <grumpy3039@hotmail.com>
Subject: Oldest warriors
Date: 3 Feb 2005 09:28:07 -0800
Message-ID: <1107451687.305032.20020@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

Okay, okay, I'll own up. I'm really testing whether or not my post will
get mangled by word-wrap :-/

______________________________________________________________________________
Oldest Warriors: Tuesday 18 January 2005

 1   HazyLazy C 11                       CS SG                   356
94nop
 2   Arrow                               Christian Schmidt       347
94nop
 3   Stasis                              David Moore             326
88
 4   on-speed                            brx                     291
nano
 5   Maelstrom                           Roy van Rijn            288
94nop
 6   Evol Cap 4 X                        John Wilkinson          285
big
 7   h1_3.red                            Dave Hillis             261
nano
 8   paper(paper(paper(clear))           Sascha Zapf             248
94nop
 =   PacMan                              David Moore             248
88
10   Venom v0.2b                         Christian Schmidt       238
big
11   Evolve X v4.0                       John Wilkinson          233
big
12   Freight Train                       David Moore             219
88
13   Guardian                            Ian Oversby             218
88
14   Controlled Aggression               Ian Oversby             216
big
15   Black Moods                         Ian Oversby             212
big
16   rdrc: Silhouette Ulcer              Dave Hillis             207
nano
17   18393-6049-werewulf-nano-eve78      bvowk                   180
nano
18   Borgir                              Christian Schmidt       179
94nop
19   4910-8311-xt430-9-nano-eve78        bvowk                   175
nano
20   Black Knight                        Christian Schmidt       169
94nop
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-



From: fizmo_master@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: Oldest warriors
Date: 3 Feb 2005 10:12:55 -0800
Message-ID: <1107454375.726032.264420@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

CoreChild wrote:
> Okay, okay, I'll own up. I'm really testing whether or not my post
will
> get mangled by word-wrap :-/


Let's see if it works from here:

20  36/ 39/ 25   The Boss is back again!            G.Labarga     133
    6



From: Lukasz Grabun <grabek@invalid.com>
Subject: Re: Oldest warriors
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2005 17:37:37 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <slrnd04o4d.2pe.grabek@localhost.localdomain>

On 3 Feb 2005 09:28:07 -0800, CoreChild wrote:

> Okay, okay, I'll own up. I'm really testing whether or not my post will
> get mangled by word-wrap :-/

And actually it has got mangled on my 80 character wide text display ;-)


From: neogryzormail@mixmail.com (Neogryzor)
Subject: Re: Oldest warriors
Date: 4 Feb 2005 04:27:56 -0800
Message-ID: <242debe4.0502040427.1f3d824b@posting.google.com>

fizmo_master@yahoo.com wrote in message 
> Let's see if it works from here:
> 
> 20  36/ 39/ 25   The Boss is back again!            G.Labarga     133
>     6

20th? ugh!


From: "CoreChild" <grumpy3039@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Oldest warriors
Date: 4 Feb 2005 08:08:58 -0800
Message-ID: <1107533338.508310.288150@c13g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

In case you are wondering why we're testing, we would like to post
this, and have it reach everyone intact:

  http://www.corewar.info/corewarrior/cw/091.txt

Regards,

John

CoreChild wrote:
> Okay, okay, I'll own up. I'm really testing whether or not my post
will
> get mangled by word-wrap :-/



Message-ID: <games/corewar-faq_1107580589@rtfm.mit.edu>
From: anton@paradise.net.nz (Anton Marsden)
Subject: Core War Frequently Asked Questions (rec.games.corewar FAQ)
Date: 05 Feb 2005 05:16:49 GMT

Archive-name: games/corewar-faq
Last-Modified: September 4, 1999
Version: 4.2
URL: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html
Copyright: (c) 1999 Anton Marsden
Maintainer: Anton Marsden <anton@paradise.net.nz>
Posting-Frequency: once every 2 weeks

Core War Frequently Asked Questions

(rec.games.corewar FAQ)

These are the Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) from the Usenet
newsgroup rec.games.corewar. 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 Marsden
(anton@paradise.net.nz).

Last modified: Sat Sep 4 00:22:22 NZST 1999
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To Do

   * Add the new No-PSpace '94 hill location
   * Add online location of Dewdney's articles
   * Make question 17 easier to understand. Add a state diagram?
   * Add info about infinite hills, related games (C-Robots, Tierra?, ...)
   * New question: How do I know if my warrior is any good? Refer to
     beginners' benchmarks, etc.
   * Add a Who's Who list?
   * Would very much like someone to compile a collection of the
     "revolutionary" warriors so that beginners can see how the game has
     developed over the years. Mail me if interested.

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What's New

   * Changed primary location of FAQ (again!)
   * Changed Philip Kendall's home page address.
   * Updated list server information
   * Changed primary location of FAQ
   * Vector-launching code was fixed thanks to Ting Hsu.
   * Changed the location of Ryan Coleman's paper (LaunchPad -> Launchpad)
   * Changed pauillac.inria.fr to para.inria.fr

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Table of Contents

  1. What is Core War
  2. Is it "Core War" or "Core Wars"?
  3. Where can I find more information about Core War?
  4. Core War has changed since Dewdney's articles. Where do I get a copy of
     the current instruction set?
  5. What is ICWS'94? Which simulators support ICWS'94?
  6. What is the ICWS?
  7. What is Core Warrior?
  8. Where are the Core War archives?
  9. Where can I find a Core War system for ...?
 10. Where can I find warrior code?
 11. I do not have FTP. How do I get all this great stuff?
 12. I do not have access to Usenet. How do I post and receive news?
 13. Are there any Core War related WWW sites?
 14. What is KotH? How do I enter?
 15. Is it DAT 0, 0 or DAT #0, #0? How do I compare to core?
 16. How does SLT (Skip if Less Than) work?
 17. What is the difference between in-register and in-memory evaluation?
 18. What is P-space?
 19. What does "Missing ;assert .." in my message from KotH mean?
 20. How should I format my code?
 21. Are there any other Core War related resources I should know about?
 22. What does (expression or term of your choice) mean?
 23. Other questions?

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1. What is Core War?

Core 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 is to cause all processes of the opposing program to terminate, leaving
your program in sole posession of the machine.

There are Core War systems available for most computer platforms. Redcode
has been standardised by the ICWS, and is therefore transportable between
all standard Core War systems.

The system in which the programs run is quite simple. The core (the memory
of the simulated computer) is a continuous array of instructions, empty
except for the competing programs. The core wraps around, so that after the
last instruction comes the first one again.

There are no absolute addresses in Core War. That is, the address 0 doesn't
mean the first instruction in the memory, but the instruction that contains
the address 0. The next instruction is 1, and the previous one obviously -1.
However, all numbers are treated as positive, and are in the range 0 to
CORESIZE-1 where CORESIZE is the amount of memory locations in the core -
this means that -1 would be treated as CORESIZE-1 in any arithmetic
operations, eg. 3218 + 7856 = (3218 + 7856) mod CORESIZE. Many people get
confused by this, and it is particularly important when using the SLT
instruction. Note that the source code of a program can still contain
negative numbers, but if you start using instructions like DIV #-2, #5 it is
important to know what effect they will have when executed.

The basic unit of memory in Core War is one instruction. Each Redcode
instruction contains three parts:

   * the opcode
   * the source address (a.k.a. the A-field)
   * the destination address (a.k.a. the B-field)

The execution of the programs is equally simple. The MARS executes one
instruction at a time, and then proceeds to the next one in the memory,
unless the instruction explicitly tells it to jump to another address. If
there is more than one program running, (as is usual) the programs execute
alternately, one instruction at a time. The execution of each instruction
takes the same time, one cycle, whether it is MOV, DIV or even DAT (which
kills the process).

Each program may have several processes running. These processes are stored
in a task queue. When it is the program's turn to execute an instruction it
dequeues a process and executes the corresponding instruction. Processes
that are not killed during the execution of the instruction are put back
into the task queue. Processes created by a SPL instruction are added to the
task queue after the creating process is put back into the task queue.

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2. Is it "Core War" or "Core Wars"?

Both terms are used. Early references were to Core War. Later references
seem to use Core Wars. I prefer "Core War" to refer to the game in general,
"core wars" to refer to more than one specific battle.

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3. Where can I find more information about Core War?

Core War was first described in the Core War Guidelines of March, 1984 by D.
G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The
University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer
Recreations" articles in Scientific American which discussed Core War,
starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in two
anthologies:

                                                                Library of
  Author         Title         Published          ISBN           Congress
                                                                Call Number
           The Armchair
 Dewdney,  Universe: An       New York: W.                     QA76.6 .D517
 A. K.     Exploration of     H. Freeman �0-7167-1939-8        1988
           Computer Worlds    1988
           The Magic                      0-7167-2125-2
 Dewdney,  Machine: A         New York: W.(Hardcover),         QA76.6
 A. K.     Handbook of        H. Freeman �0-7167-2144-9        .D5173 1990
           Computer Sorcery   1990        (Paperback)

A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core
War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer
current. For those who are interested, Dewdney has a home page at
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/.

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4. Core War has changed since Dewdney's articles. Where do I get a copy of
the current instruction set?

A draft of the official standard (ICWS'88) is available as
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/standards/redcode-icws-88.Z. This
document is formatted awkwardly and contains ambiguous statements. For a
more approachable intro to Redcode, take a look at Mark Durham's tutorials,
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/tutorial.1.Z and
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/tutorial.2.Z.

Steven Morrell has prepared a more practically oriented Redcode tutorial
that discusses different warrior classes with lots of example code. This and
various other tutorials can be found at http://www.koth.org/papers.html.

Even though ICWS'88 is still the "official" standard, you will find that
most people are playing by ICWS'94 draft rules and extensions.

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5. What is ICWS'94? Which simulators support ICWS'94?

There is an ongoing discussion about future enhancements to the Redcode
language. A proposed new standard, dubbed ICWS'94, is currently being
evaluated. A major change is the addition of "instruction modifiers" that
allow instructions to modify A-field, B-field or both. Also new is a new
addressing modes and unrestricted opcode and addressing mode combination
("no illegal instructions"). ICWS'94 is backwards compatible; i.e. ICWS'88
warriors will run correctly on an ICWS'94 system. Take a look at the ICWS'94
draft at ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/icws94.0202.Z for more
information. There is a HTML version of this document available at
http://www.koth.org/info/icws94.html. You can try out the new standard by
submitting warriors to the '94 hills of the KotH servers. Two corewar
systems currently support ICWS'94, pMARS (many platforms) and Redcoder
(Mac), both available at ftp://www.koth.org/corewar. Note that Redcoder only
supports a subset of ICWS'94.

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6. What is the ICWS?

About one year after Core War first appeared in Scientific American, the
"International Core War Society" (ICWS) was established. Since that time,
the ICWS has been responsible for the creation and maintenance of Core War
standards and the running of Core War tournaments. There have been six
annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88). The ICWS is no
longer active.

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7. What is Core Warrior?

Following in the tradition of the Core War News Letter, Push Off, and The 94
Warrior, Core Warrior is a newsletter about strategies and current standings
in Core War. Started in October 1995, back issues of Core Warrior (and the
other newsletters) are available at http://para.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/.
There is also a Core Warrior index page at
http://www.kendalls.demon.co.uk/pak21/corewar/warrior.html which has a
summary of the contents of each issue of Core Warrior. Many of the earlier
issues contain useful information for beginners.

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8. Where are the Core War archives?

Many documents such as the guidelines and the ICWS standards along with
previous tournament Redcode entries and complete Core War systems are
available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/corewar.
Also, most of past rec.games.corewar postings (including Redcode source
listings) are archived there. Jon Blow (blojo@csua.berkeley.edu) is the
archive administrator. When uploading to /pub/corewar/incoming, ask Jon to
move your upload to the appropriate directory and announce it on the net.

This site is mirrored at:

   * http://www.koth.org/corewar/
   * ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/
   * ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/mirror

The plain text version of this FAQ is automatically archived by news.answers
(but this version is probably out-of-date).

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9. Where can I find a Core War system for . . . ?

Core War systems are available via anonymous FTP from www.koth.org in the
corewar/systems directory. Currently, there are UNIX, IBM PC-compatible,
Macintosh, and Amiga Core War systems available there. It is a good idea to
check ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/incoming for program updates first.

CAUTION! There are many, many Core War systems available which are NOT
ICWS'88 (or even ICWS'86) compatible available at various archive sites
other than www.koth.org. Generally, the older the program - the less likely
it will be ICWS compatible.

If you are looking for an ICWS'94 simulator, get pMARS, which is available
for many platforms and can be downloaded from:

   * ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/corewar (original site)
   * ftp://www.koth.org/corewar (koth.org mirror)
   * ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/mirror (Planar
     mirror)
   * http://www.nc5.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/ (Terry Newton)
   * ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar (Fechter)

Notes:

   * If you have trouble running pMARS with a graphical display under Win95
     then check out http://www.koth.org/pmars.html which should have a
     pointer to the latest compilation of pMARS for this environment.
   * RPMs for the Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc and i386 can be found at
     ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/pmars-rpm/

Reviews of Core War systems would be greatly appreciated in the newsgroup
and in the newsletter.

Below is a not necessarily complete or up-to-date list of what's available
at www.koth.org:
MADgic41.lzh            corewar for the Amiga, v4.1
MAD4041.lzh             older version?
MAD50B.lha              corewar for the Amiga, beta version 5.0

Redcoder-21.hqx         corewar for the Mac, supports ICWS'88 and '94
                        (without extensions)
core-11.hqx             corewar for the Mac
core-wars-simulator.hqx same as core-11.hqx?

corewar_unix_x11.tar.Z  corewar for UNIX/X-windows, ICWS'86 but not ICWS'88
                        compatible

koth31.tar.Z            corewar for UNIX/X-windows. This program ran the
                        former KotH server at intel.com
koth.shar.Z             older version
kothpc.zip              port of older version of KotH to the PC

deluxe20c.tar.Z         corewar for UNIX (broken X-windows or curses) and
                        PC
mars.tar.Z              corewar for UNIX, likely not ICWS'88 compatible
icons.zip               corewar icons for MS-Windows
macrored.zip            a redcode macro-preprocessor (PC)
c88v49.zip              PC corewar, textmode display
mars88.zip              PC corewar, graphics mode display
corwp302.zip            PC corewar, textmode display, slowish
mercury2.zip            PC corewar written in assembly, fast!
mtourn11.zip            tournament scheduler for mercury (req. 4DOS)

pmars08s.zip            portable system, ICWS'88 and '94, runs on UNIX, PC,
                        Mac, Amiga. C source archive
pmars08s.tar.Z          same as above
pmars08.zip             PC executables with graphics display, req 386+

macpmars02.sit.hqx      pMARS executable for Mac (port of version 0.2)
                        buggy, no display
MacpMARS1.99a.cpt.hqx   port of v0.8 for the Mac, with display and debugger
MacpMARS1.0s.cpt.hqx    C source (MPW, ThinkC) for Mac frontend

pvms08.zip              pMARS v0.8 for VMS build files/help (req.
                        pmars08s.zip)
ApMARS03.lha            pMARS executable for Amiga (port of version 0.3.1)
wincor11.zip            MS-Windows system, shareware ($15)

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10. Where can I find warrior code?

To learn the game, it is a good idea to study previously posted warrior
code. The FTP archives have code in the ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/redcode
directory. A clearly organized on-line warrior collection is available at
the Core War web sites (see below).

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11. I do not have FTP. How do I get all this great stuff?

There is an FTP email server at bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu. This address may
no longer exist. I haven't tested it yet. Send email with a subject and body
text of "help" (without the quotes) for more information on its usage. Note
that many FTP email gateways are shutting down due to abuse. To get a
current list of FTP email servers, look at the Accessing the Internet by
E-mail FAQ posted to news.answers. If you don't have access to Usenet, you
can retrieve this FAQ one of the following ways:

   * Send mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the body containing "send
     usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email".
   * Send mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the body containing "send
     lis-iis e-access-inet.txt".

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12. I do not have access to Usenet. How do I post and receive news?

To receive rec.games.corewar articles by email, join the COREWAR-L list run
on the Koth.Org list processor. To join, send the message

     SUB COREWAR-L FirstName LastName

to listproc@koth.org. You can send mail to corewar-l@koth.org to post even
if you are not a member of the list. Responsible for the listserver is Scott
J. Ellentuch (ttsg@ttsg.com).

Servers that allow you to post (but not receive) articles are available.
Refer to the Accessing the Internet by E-Mail FAQ for more information.

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13. Are there any Core War related WWW sites?

You bet. Each of the two KotH sites sport a world-wide web server.
Stormking's Core War page is http://www.koth.org; pizza's is
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth . Damien Doligez (a.k.a. Planar)
has a web page that features convenient access to regular newsletters (Push
Off, The '94 Warrior, Core Warrior) and a well organized library of
warriors: http://para.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/. Convenient for U.S. users,
this site is also mirrored at koth.org.

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14. What is KotH? How do I enter?

King Of The Hill (KotH) is an ongoing Core War tournament available to
anyone with email. You enter by submitting via email a Redcode program
(warrior) with special comment lines. You will receive a reply indicating
how well your program did against the current top programs "on the hill".

There are two styles of KotH tournaments, "classical" and "multi-warrior".
The "classical" KotH is a one-on-one tournament, that is your warrior will
play 100 battles against each of the 20 other programs currently on the
Hill. You receive 3 points for each win and 1 point for each tie. (The
existing programs do not replay each other, but their previous battles are
recalled.) All scores are updated to reflect your battles and all 21
programs are ranked from high to low. If you are number 21 you are pushed
off the Hill, if you are higher than 21 someone else is pushed off.

In "multi-warrior" KotH, all warriors on the hill fight each other at the
same time. Score calculation is a bit more complex than for the one-on-one
tournament. Briefly, points are awarded based on how many warriors survive
until the end of a round. A warrior that survives by itself gets more points
than a warrior that survives together with other warriors. Points are
calculated from the formula (W*W-1)/S, where W is the total number of
warriors and S the number of surviving warriors. The pMARS documentation has
more information on multi-warrior scoring.

The idea for an email-based Core War server came from David Lee. The
original KotH was developed and run by William Shubert at Intel starting in
1991, and discontinued after almost three years of service. Currently, KotHs
based on Bill's UNIX scripts but offering a wider variety of hills are are
running at two sites: koth@koth.org is maintained by Scott J. Ellentuch
(tuc@ttsg.com) and pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu by Thomas H. Davies
(sd@ecst.csuchico.edu). Up until May '95, the two sites provided overlapping
services, i.e. the some of the hill types were offered by both "pizza" and
"stormking". To conserve resources, the different hill types are now divided
up among the sites. The way you submit warriors to both KotHs is pretty much
the same. Therefore, the entry rules described below apply to both "pizza"
and "stormking" unless otherwise noted.

Entry Rules for King of the Hill Corewar

   * Write a corewar program. KotH is fully ICWS '88 compatible, EXCEPT that
     a comma (",") is required between two arguments.

   * Put a line starting with ";redcode" (or ";redcode-94", etc., see below)
     at the top of your program. This MUST be the first line. Anything
     before it will be lost. If you wish to receive mail on every new
     entrant, use ";redcode verbose". Otherwise you will only receive mail
     if a challenger makes it onto the hill. Use ";redcode quiet" if you
     wish to receive mail only when you get shoved off the hill.

     Additionally, adding ";name <program name>" and ";author <your name>"
     will be helpful in the performance reports. Do NOT have a line
     beginning with ";address" in your code; this will confuse the mail
     daemon and you won't get mail back. Using ";name" is mandatory on the
     Pizza hills.

     In addition, it would be nice if you have lines beginning with
     ";strategy" that describe the algorithm you use.

     There are currently seven separate hills you can select by starting
     your program with ;redcode-94, ;redcode-b, ;redcode-lp, ;redcode-x,
     ;redcode, ;redcode-94x or ;redcode-94m. The former four run at "pizza",
     the latter three at "stormking". More information on these hills is
     listed below.

   * Mail this file to koth@koth.org or pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu. "Pizza"
     requires a subject of "koth" (use the -s flag on most mailers).

   * Within a few minutes you should get mail back telling you whether your
     program assembled correctly or not. If it did assemble correctly, sit
     back and wait; if not, make the change required and re-submit.

   * In an hour or so you should get more mail telling you how your program
     performed against the current top 20 (or 10) programs. If no news
     arrives during that time, don't worry; entries are put in a queue and
     run through the tournament one at a time. A backlog may develop. Be
     patient.

If your program makes it onto the hill, you will get mail every time a new
program makes it onto the hill. If this is too much mail, you can use
";redcode[-??] quiet" when you first mail in your program; then you will
only get mail when you make it on the top 25 list or when you are knocked
off. Using ";redcode[-??] verbose" will give you even more mail; here you
get mail every time a new challenger arrives, even if they don't make it
onto the top 25 list.

Often programmers want to try out slight variations in their programs. If
you already have a program named "foo V1.0" on the hill, adding the line
";kill foo" to a new program will automatically bump foo 1.0 off the hill.
Just ";kill" will remove all of your programs when you submit the new one.
The server kills programs by assigning an impossibly low score; it may
therefore take another successful challenge before a killed program is
actually removed from the hill.

Sample Entry

;redcode
;name Dwarf
;author A. K. Dewdney
;strategy Throw DAT bombs around memory, hitting every 4th memory cell.
;strategy This program was presented in the first Corewar article.
bomb  DAT   #0
dwarf ADD   #4,    bomb
      MOV   bomb, @bomb
      JMP   dwarf
      END   dwarf          ; Programs start at the first line unless
                           ; an "END start" pseudo-op appears to indicate
                           ; the first logical instruction.  Also, nothing
                           ; after the END instruction will be assembled.

                                          Duration  Max.
     Hill Name      Hill  Core    Max.     Before  Entry     Min.   Rounds   Instr.
                    Size  Size Processes                   Distance Fought    Set
                                            Tie    Length
 Pizza's ICWS '94
 Draft Hill                                                                 Extended
 (Accessed with       25  8000       8000    80000    100       100     200 ICWS '94
 ";redcode-94")                                                             Draft
 Pizza's Beginner's                                                         Extended
 Hill (Accessed       25  8000       8000    80000    100       100     200 ICWS '94
 with ";redcode-b")                                                         Draft
 Pizza's
 Experimental                                                               Extended
 (Small) Hill         25   800        800     8000     20        20     200 ICWS '94
 (Accessed with                                                             Draft
 ";redcode-x")
 Pizza's Limited
 Process (LP) Hill                                                          Extended
 (Accessed with       25  8000          8    80000    200       200     200 ICWS '94
 ";redcode-lp")                                                             Draft
 Stormking's ICWS
 '88 Standard Hill
 (Accessed with       20  8000       8000    80000    100       100     250 ICWS '88
 ";redcode")
 Stormking's ICWS
 '94 No Pspace Hill
 (Accessed with       20  8000       8000    80000    100       100     250 ICWS '94
 ";redcode-94nop")
 Stormking's ICWS
 '94 Experimental                                                           Extended
 (Big) Hill           20 55440      55440   500000    200       200     250 ICWS '94
 (Accessed with                                                             Draft
 ";redcode-94x")
 Stormking's ICWS
 '94 Multi-Warrior                                                          Extended
 Hill (Accessed       10  8000       8000    80000    100       100     200 ICWS '94
 with                                                                       Draft
 ";redcode-94m")

Note: Warriors on the beginner's hill are retired at age 100.

If you just want to get a status report without actually challenging the
hills, send email with ";status" as the message body (and don't forget
"Subject: koth" for "pizza"). If you send mail to "pizza" with "Subject:
koth help" you will receive instructions that may be more up to date than
those contained in this document.

At "stormking", a message body with ";help" will return brief instructions.
If you submit code containing a ";test" line, your warrior will be assembled
but not actually pitted against the warriors on the hill.

At "pizza", you can use ";redcode[-??] test" to do a test challenge of the
Hill without affecting the status of the Hill. These challenges can be used
to see how well your warrior does against the current Hill warriors.

All hills run portable MARS (pMARS) version 0.8, a platform-independent Core
War system available at www.koth.org.

The '94 and '94x hills allow five experimental opcodes and three
experimental addressing modes currently not covered in the ICWS'94 draft
document:

   * LDP - Load P-Space
   * STP - Store P-Space
   * SEQ - Skip if EQual (synonym for CMP)
   * SNE - Skip if Not Equal
   * NOP - (No OPeration)

   * * - indirect using A-field as pointer
   * { - predecrement indirect using A-field
   * } - postincrement indirect using A-field

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15. Is it DAT 0, 0 or DAT #0, #0? How do I compare to core?

Core is initialized to DAT 0, 0. This is an illegal instruction (in source
code) under ICWS'88 rules and strictly compliant assemblers (such as KotH or
pmars -8) will not let you have a DAT 0, 0 instruction in your source code -
only DAT #0, #0. So this begs the question, how to compare something to see
if it is empty core. The answer is, most likely the instruction before your
first instruction and the instruction after your last instruction are both
DAT 0, 0. You can use them, or any other likely unmodified instructions, for
comparison. Note that under ICWS'94, DAT 0, 0 is a legal instruction.

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16. How does SLT (Skip if Less Than) work?

SLT gives some people trouble because of the way modular arithmetic works.
It is important to note that all negative numbers are converted to positive
numbers before a battles begins. Example: -1 becomes M-1 where M is the
memory size (core size).

Once you realize that all numbers are treated as positive, it is clear what
is meant by "less than". It should also be clear that no number is less than
zero.

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17. What is the difference between in-register and in-memory evaluation?

These terms refer to the way instruction operands are evaluated. The '88
Redcode standard ICWS'88 is unclear about whether a simulator should
"buffer" the result of A-operand evaluation before the B-operand is
evaluated. Simulators that do buffer are said to use in-register evaluation,
those that don't, in-memory evaluation. ICWS'94 clears this confusion by
mandating in-register evaluation. Instructions that execute differently
under these two forms of evaluation are MOV, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV and MOD
where the effective address of the A-operand is modified by evaluation of
the B-operand. This is best illustrated by an example:

   L1  mov L2, <L2
   L2  dat #0, #1

Under in-register evaluation, the L2 instruction is saved in a buffer before
the L2 memory location is decremented by evaluation of the B-operand of L1.
The saved DAT #0,#1 instruction is then written to L2, leaving it unchanged.

Under in-memory evaluation, the L2 instruction is not buffered and thus
decremented by evaluation of the B-operand. After execution of L1, L2
changes to DAT #0,#0.

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  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

18. What is P-space?

P-space is an area of memory which only your program's processes can access.
The contents of each memory location are preserved between rounds in a
multi-round match.

P-space is in many ways different from the core. First of all, each P-space
location can only store one number, not a whole instruction. Also, the
addressing in P-space is absolute, ie. the P-space address 1 is always 1
regardless of where in the core the instruction containing it is. And last
but not least, P-space can only be accessed by two special instructions, LDP
and STP.

The syntax of these two instructions is a bit unusual. STP, for example, has
an ordinary value in the core as its source, which is put into the P-space
field pointed to by the destination. So the P-space location isn't
determined by the destination address, but by its value, ie. the value that
would be overwritten if this were a MOV. So STP.AB #Q, #R would put the
value Q into the P-space field R mod PSPACESIZE. Similarly,

        stp.b  2, 3
        dat    0, 0
        dat    0, 9
        dat    0, 7

would put the value 9 into the P-space field 7. LDP works the same way,
except that now the source is a P-space field and the destination a core
instruction. The P-space location 0 is a special location. It is initialised
to a special value before each round. This value is:

   * -1 (or CORESIZE-1) at the beginning of the first round
   * 0 if the program died in the previous round
   * The number of surviving programs if the program did not die in the
     previous round

This means that for one-on-one matches, loss=0, win=1 and tie=2.

The default size of P-space is 1/16 of the core size. This size is the value
of the predefined variable PSPACESIZE. The addresses in the P-space wrap
around just like in the core, ie. you can store a value from 0 to CORESIZE-1
in each P-space location. All P-space values (except for location 0) are 0
initially.

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19. What does "Missing ;assert .." in my message from KotH mean?

This means you have omitted an ";assert" line in your submission. ";assert"
is used to specify which environments your code will work under or was
designed for. For example, if your warrior was written for the '94 draft
hill then you can put:

;assert CORESIZE==8000

in your code, meaning that an error will occur if you attempt you compile
the code for a different core size. If you don't want to use the features of
";assert" and you want to get rid of the annoying warning just put:

;assert 1

in your code, which means it will compile unconditionally.

[ToC]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

20. How should I format my code?

The way you format your code is really your own choice in the end. If you
are new to the game then use the style you feel most comfortable with.
However, using a common format helps others to understand your code quicker.
Most players tend to use the following conventions when writing code:

   * use lower case for location names and opcode names
   * don't add opcode modifiers if you don't need to, eg. add.ab #1, #2 is
     the same as add #1, #2
   * use whitespace after every comma
   * use tabs to align the opcodes, the instruction field(s) and any
     comments
   * do not use $ (direct addressing mode) or : (suffix of some labels)

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21. Are there any other Core War related resources I should know about?

Using genetic algorithms to generate warriors has been attempted by a number
of people. There are a number of resources available for people who are
interested in doing some experimentation:

   * There is a Core War genetic algorithms mailing list at
     corewar-ga-request@sunsite.auc.dk. The FTP site for this list is at
     ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/local/corewar/. The administrator is Martin
     Pedersen (martin.pedersen@person.dk).
   * Jason's Core War project page
     (http://www.avalon.net/~jboer/projects/corewar/corewar.html) contains a
     C program which can evolve warriors, along with some previously
     generated warriors.
   * Core Wars Genetics: The Evolution of Predation by John Perry can be
     found at http://www.koth.org/evolving_warriors.html.
   * The most recent paper on Core War evolution is by Ryan Coleman and can
     be found at
     http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/6898/paper.html.

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22. What does (expression or term of your choice) mean?

Here is a selected glossary of terms. If you have a definition and/or term
you wish to see here, please send it to me.

(References to an X-like program mean that the term X is derived from the
specific program X and has become a generic term).

Binary launch
     One of several means to start an imp-spiral running. The fastest launch
     technique, but requires the most code. See also JMP/ADD Launch and
     Vector Launch.

         impsize   equ 2667
         example   spl 4               ; extend by adding spl 8, spl 16, etc.
                   spl 2
                   jmp imp+(0*impsize) ; jmp's execute in order
                   jmp imp+(1*impsize)
                   spl 2
                   jmp imp+(2*impsize)
                   jmp imp+(3*impsize)
         imp       mov 0, impsize      ; in '94 use -> mov.i #0, impsize

Bootstrapping
     Strategy of copying the active portion of the program away from the
     initial location, leaving a decoy behind and making the relocated
     program as small as possible.

B-Scanners
     Scanners which only recognize non-zero B-fields.

         example   add #10, scan
         scan      jmz example, 10

c
     Measure of speed, equal to one location per cycle. Speed of light.

CMP-Scanner
     A Scanner which uses a CMP instruction to look for opponents.

         example   add step, scan
         scan      cmp 10, 30
                   jmp attack
                   jmp example
         step      dat #20, #20

Colour
     Property of bombs making them visible to scanners, causing them to
     attack useless locations, thus slowing them down.

         example   dat #100

Core-Clear
     Code that sequentially overwrites core with DAT instructions; usually
     the last part of a program.

Decoys
     Bogus or unused instructions meant to slow down scanners. Typically,
     DATs with non-zero B-fields.

Decrement Resistant
     Property of warriors making them functional (or at least partially
     functional) when overrun by a DJN-stream.

DJN-Stream (also DJN-Train)
     Using a DJN command to rapidly decrement core locations.

         example   ...
                   ...
                   djn example, <4000

Dwarf
     The prototypical small bomber.

Gate-busting (also gate-crashing)
     technique to "interweave" a decrement-resistant imp-spiral (e.g. MOV 0,
     2668) with a standard one to overrun imp-gates.

Hybrids
     warriors that combine two or more of the basic strategies, either in
     sequence (e.g. stone->paper) or in parallel (e.g. imp/stone).

Imp
     Program which only uses the MOV instruction.

         example   mov 0, 1

     or

         example   mov 0, 2
                   mov 0, 2

Imp-Gate
     A location in core which is bombed or decremented continuously so that
     an Imp can not pass. Also used to describe the program-code which
     maintains the gate.

         example   ...
                   ...
                   spl 0, <example
                   dat <example, #0

Imp-Ring
     A minimal Imp-Spiral.

         D         EQU (CORESIZE+1)/3
         a         mov 0, D   ; copy self to b
         b         mov 0, D   ; copy self to c
         c         mov 0, D   ; copy self to a+1

Imp-Spiral
     An Imp-like program with two or more processes supporting each other. A
     three-point spiral, with six processes running in this sequence:

         D         EQU (CORESIZE+1)/3
         a         mov 0, D   ; copy self to b
         b         mov 0, D   ; copy self to c
         c         mov 0, D   ; copy self to a+1
         a+1       mov 0, D   ; copy self to b+1
         b+1       mov 0, D   ; copy self to c+1
         c+1       mov 0, D   ; copy self to a+2

Incendiary Bomb
     A type of Stun bomb which creates a SPL 0 carpet.

         example   spl 0, 8
                   mov -1, <-1

JMP/ADD Launch
     one of several means to start an imp-spiral running. The slowest launch
     technique, but requires the least code. See also Binary Launch and
     Vector Launch.

         IMPSIZE   EQU 2667
         example   spl 1               ; extend by adding more spl 1's
                   spl 1
                   spl 2
                   jmp @0, imp
                   add #IMPSIZE, -1    ; bump address by impsize after each jmp
                   dat #0, #0          ; excess processes must die!
         imp       mov 0, IMPSIZE      ; in '94 use -> mov.i #0,IMPSIZE

Mirror
     see reflection.

On-axis/off-axis
     On-axis scanners compare two locations M/2 apart, where M is the memory
     size. Off-axis scanners use some other separation.

Optimal Constants
     (also optima-type constants) Bomb or scan increments chosen to cover
     core most effectively, i.e. leaving gaps of uniform size. Programs to
     calculate optimal constants and lists of optimal numbers are available
     at www.koth.org.

Paper
     A Paper-like program is one which replicates itself many times. Part of
     the Scissors (beats) Paper (beats) Stone (beats Scissors) analogy.

P-Warrior
     A warrior which uses the results of previous round(s) in order to
     determine which strategy it will use.

Pit-Trapper
     (also Slaver, Vampire). A program which enslaves another. Usually
     accomplished by bombing with JMPs to a SPL 0 pit with an optional
     core-clear routine.

Q^2 Scan
     A modern version of the Quick Scan where anything found is attacked
     almost immediately.

Quick Scan
     2c scan of a set group of core locations with bombing if anything is
     found. Both of the following codes snips scan 16 locations and check
     for a find. If anything is found, it is attacked, otherwise 16 more
     locations are scanned.

     Example:

          start
          s1 for 8    ;'88 scan
                 cmp  start+100*s1, start+100*s1+4000 ;check two locations
                 mov  #start+100*s1-found, found      ;they differ so set pointer
          rof
                 jmn  attack,   found    ;if we have something, get it
          s2 for 8
                 cmp  start+100*(s2+6), start+100*(s2+6)+4000
                 mov  #start+100*(s2+6)-found, found
          rof
          found  jmz  moveme,  #0        ;skip attack if qscan found nothing
          attack cmp  @found,  start-1   ;does found points to empty space?
                 add  #4000,   found     ;no, so point to correct location
                 mov  start-1, @found    ;move a bomb
          moveme jmp  0,       0

     In ICWS'94, the quick scan code is more compact because of the SNE
     opcode:

          start       ;'94 scan
          s1 for 4
                 sne  start+400*s1, start+400*s1+100     ;check two locations
                 seq  start+400*s1+200, start+400*s1+300 ;check two locations
                 mov  #start+400*s1-found, found       ;they differ so set pointer
          rof
                 jmn  which,   found     ;if we have something, get it
          s2 for 4
                 sne  start+400*(s2+4), start+400*(s2+4)+100
                 seq  start+400*(s2+4)+200, start+400*(s2+4)+300
                 mov  #start+400*(s2+4)-found-100, found
          rof
          found  jmz  moveme,  #0        ;skip attack if qscan found nothing
                 add  #100,    -1        ;increment pointer till we get the
          which  jmn  -1,      @found    ;right place
                 mov  start-1, @found    ;move a bomb
          moveme jmp  0,       0

Reflection
     Copy of a program or program part, positioned to make the active
     program invisible to a CMP-scanner.

Replicator
     Generic for Paper. A program which makes many copies of itself, each
     copy also making copies.

Self-Splitting
     Strategy of amplifying the number of processes executing a piece of
     code.

         example    spl 0
         loop       add #10, example
                    mov example, @example
                    jmp loop

Scanner
     A program which searches through core for an opponent rather than
     bombing blindly.

Scissors
     A program designed to beat replicators, usually a (B-field scanning)
     vampire. Part of the Paper-Scissors-Stone analogy.

Self-Repair
     Ability of a program to fix it's own code after attack.

Silk
     A replicator which splits off a process to each new copy before
     actually copying the code. This allows it to replicate extremely
     quickly. This technique is only possible under the '94 draft, because
     it requires post-increment indirect addressing. Example:

                 spl   1
                 mov   -1, 0
                 spl   1                ;generate 6 consecutive processes
         silk    spl   3620,   #0       ;split to new copy
                 mov   >-1, }-1      ;copy self to new location
                 mov   bomb,   >2000 ;linear bombing
                 mov   bomb,   }2042    ;A-indirect bombing for anti-vamp
                 jmp   silk,   {silk    ;reset source pointer, make new copy
         bomb    dat   >2667,  >5334  ;anti-imp bomb

Slaver
     see Pit-Trapper.

Stealth
     Property of programs, or program parts, which are invisible to
     scanners, accomplished by using zero B-fields and reflections.

Stone
     A Stone-like program designed to be a small bomber. Part of the
     Paper-Scissors-Stone analogy.

Stun
     A type of bomb which makes the opponent multiply useless processes,
     thus slowing it down. Example is referred to as a SPL-JMP bomb.

         example    spl   0
                    jmp   -1

Two-Pass Core-Clear (also SPL/DAT Core-Clear)
     core clear that fills core first with SPL instructions, then with DATs.
     This is very effective in killing paper and certain imp-spiral
     variations.

Vampire
     see Pit-Trapper.

Vector Launch
     one of several means to start an imp-spiral running. As fast as Binary
     Launch, but requiring much less code. See also JMP/ADD Launch and
     Binary Launch. This example is one form of a Vector Launch:

         sz      EQU   2667

                 spl   1
                 spl   1
                 jmp   @vt, }0
         vt      dat   #0, imp+0*sz ; start of vector table
                 dat   #0, imp+1*sz
                 dat   #0, imp+2*sz
                 dat   #0, imp+3*sz ; end of vector table
         imp     mov.i #0, sz

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23. Other questions?

Just ask in the rec.games.corewar newsgroup or contact me. If you are shy,
check out the Core War archives first to see if your question has been
answered before.

[ToC]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Credits

Additions, corrections, etc. to this document are solicited. Thanks in
particular to the following people who have contributed major portions of
this document:

   * Mark Durham (wrote the original version of the FAQ)
   * Paul Kline
   * Randy Graham
   * Stefan Strack (maintained a recent version of the FAQ)

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Copyright � 1999 Anton Marsden.

Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any
medium, provided this notice is preserved.
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From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - ICWS Experimental 94 02/07/05
Date: 7 Feb 2005 04:57:22 -0500
Message-ID: <200502070506.j175616a008293@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/07/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG ICWS Experimental 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sun Jan 23 12:44:12 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  44/ 36/ 20             Fatamorgana X           Zul Nadzri     152       3
 2  41/ 37/ 21             The X Machine           Zul Nadzri     145      27
 3  43/ 44/ 13           Fire and Ice II          David Moore     142     116
 4  40/ 40/ 20              Eliminator X           Zul Nadzri     140      28
 5  39/ 40/ 21               Black Moods          Ian Oversby     139     212
 6  24/ 10/ 66              Evol Cap 4 X       John Wilkinson     138     285
 7  29/ 21/ 50                xd100 test        David Houston     137      13
 8  29/ 24/ 47                 Glenstorm         John Metcalf     134      78
 9  23/ 13/ 64                    Denial          David Moore     134     157
10  26/ 18/ 56                       Kin         John Metcalf     134     124
11  30/ 28/ 42               Venom v0.2b    Christian Schmidt     133     238
12  30/ 28/ 42                    KAT v5          Dave Hillis     133     148
13  35/ 38/ 27              Trefoil F 13        Steve Gunnell     132      99
14  36/ 41/ 22        Simply Intelligent           Zul Nadzri     132       9
15  36/ 41/ 22                      Ogre    Christian Schmidt     131     164
16  19/  8/ 73             Evolve X v4.0       John Wilkinson     131     233
17  30/ 29/ 42                  Olivia X             Ben Ford     131      97
18  34/ 39/ 26     Controlled Aggression          Ian Oversby     129     216
19  36/ 45/ 19        Giant Hazy Test 13        Steve Gunnell     128      43
20  39/ 54/  7   something from darkwood         John Metcalf     125       1

21  30/ 55/ 15   time to send a scanner!     Simon Wainwright     105       0



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - Standard 02/07/05
Date: 7 Feb 2005 04:57:30 -0500
Message-ID: <200502070500.j17501BV008156@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/07/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Standard KotH CoreWar Hill :

Last battle concluded at : Tue Jan 18 10:10:37 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  37/ 29/ 35         The Next Step '88        David Houston     144      34
 2  42/ 40/ 18              Scan the Can    Christian Schmidt     144      14
 3  39/ 40/ 21             Tangle Trap 3          David Moore     139      47
 4  31/ 25/ 44            The Hurricaner            G.Labarga     138       5
 5  39/ 40/ 21                My 1st try    Christian Schmidt     137      50
 6  31/ 26/ 43                      Test Alexander (Sasha) Wa     136     158
 7  31/ 27/ 42             Freight Train          David Moore     135     219
 8  38/ 42/ 20                  Moonwipe    Christian Schmidt     134      15
 9  38/ 42/ 20                    Stasis          David Moore     134     326
10  41/ 49/ 10             Scan Test C 6        Steve Gunnell     134      57
11  30/ 28/ 42                  Guardian          Ian Oversby     133     218
12  36/ 39/ 25                    PacMan          David Moore     133     248
13  41/ 49/ 10              Speeed 88mph    Christian Schmidt     132      18
14  33/ 33/ 34                  The Seed         Roy van Rijn     132      36
15  29/ 27/ 44                      test            G.Labarga     131       1
16  29/ 28/ 42                    A.I.P.    Christian Schmidt     130      26
17  35/ 41/ 24               '88 test IV         John Metcalf     130     112
18  38/ 47/ 15  Cold as November Rain...         John Metcalf     130      32
19  20/ 11/ 68                 IMParable            G.Labarga     129       6
20  22/ 16/ 62               Utterer '88    Christian Schmidt     129       2

21  31/ 34/ 36                      vala         John Metcalf     127     141



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - MultiWarrior 94 02/07/05
Date: 7 Feb 2005 04:57:26 -0500
Message-ID: <200502070503.j17531Nu008221@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/07/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Multiwarrior 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Wed Feb 2 14:26:50 EST 2005
 
 #                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1                 stray cat         John Metcalf      39       7
 2                 SSD-clear                  Neo      23      31
 3                Hiperblast            G.Labarga      20      16
 4 kingdom of the grasshoppe     simon wainwright      16       6
 5 sauron's eye v1.01 (mini              el kauka      15      30
 6               eyes closed         John Metcalf      15       1
 7 magic of the grasshoppers     simon wainwright      11       5
 8          a scanner darkly             el kauka      10      25
 9                Da Utterer    Christian Schmidt       8      18
10                   Matanui    Christian Schmidt       8      10

11             painted black               FatalC       8       2



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status -  94 No Pspace 02/07/05
Date: 7 Feb 2005 04:57:08 -0500
Message-ID: <200502070509.j17591gq008369@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/07/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG 94 No Pspace CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sun Feb 6 09:02:19 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  39/ 25/ 36             The Humanizer            bvowk/fiz     152      41
 2  37/ 26/ 37                Hullabaloo         Roy van Rijn     147     153
 3  36/ 28/ 36                    Borgir    Christian Schmidt     144     188
 4  31/ 18/ 51                 stray cat         John Metcalf     143       7
 5  33/ 26/ 41                Gargantuan         Roy van Rijn     141     174
 6  28/ 16/ 57                    S.D.N.    Christian Schmidt     140      78
 7  42/ 44/ 14                     Arrow    Christian Schmidt     140     356
 8  27/ 16/ 57                 Maelstrom         Roy van Rijn     139     297
 9  31/ 23/ 46 paper(paper(paper(clear))          Sascha Zapf     139     257
10  41/ 43/ 17       Origin of Storms II      Metcalf/Schmidt     139      30
11  31/ 24/ 46                     New-T         Roy van Rijn     138      87
12  27/ 17/ 55              Black Knight    Christian Schmidt     137     178
13  39/ 41/ 20          thoughts of fire         John Metcalf     136      53
14  38/ 41/ 21                 Beat this          Sascha Zapf     136       2
15  25/ 14/ 61            Chainlock v02a            G.Labarga     135      36
16  25/ 15/ 60               The Utterer    Christian Schmidt     135      13
17  36/ 40/ 24            picture walker         John Metcalf     133       9
18  37/ 42/ 20                    Spiker         Roy van Rijn     132      90
19  37/ 42/ 21        HazyLazy Test C 25   Steve Gunnell / CS     132       1
20  36/ 40/ 23                      test         Roy van Rijn     132      23

21   2/ 98/  0                invincible         John Metcalf       7       0



From: neogryzormail@mixmail.com (Neogryzor)
Subject: Oneshot: The Boss is back again!
Date: 7 Feb 2005 05:04:04 -0800
Message-ID: <242debe4.0502070504.5669519c@posting.google.com>

Hi, this is my last warrior wich entered the hill.
As all oneshots is quite sensitive to the hill ballance. It would
survive longer with more stone/imps on the hill.
Not a wonder but it is my best oneshot so far.
Hope you find it interesting.
-Neogryzor-

;redcode-94nop
;name  The Boss is back again!
;author G.Labarga
;assert CORESIZE==8000
;startegy Oneshot scanner
;strategy 0.66c scan, core colouring, bomb detection
;strat v6: Oneshot instead of bishot, no decoy, tweaked a bit.

	smod EQU 7
	sstep EQU (smod*667)
	d1 EQU (2*sstep)+smod
	d2 EQU (2*sstep)

gate:	dat scan+d1,scan+d2
for 3
	dat 0,0
rof
sw:	dat <1,(clr+6-gate)
sbm:	spl #clr+20,(clr+7-gate)
for 4
	dat 0,0
rof
clr:	spl #1-(2*sstep),>1-(2*sstep)	;clear from Geist
clop:	mov *sw,>gate
	mov *sw,>gate
	djn.f clop,}sbm
for 81
	dat 0,0
rof
loop:	sub.f clr,@bchk		;< and > protection
scan:	seq.i }gate,>gate	;scan
bchk:	sne.i *gate,@gate	;bomb check
	djn.f loop,@gate	;core trashing
	djn.f clr,@bchk		;enters clear mode after 1141*2 scans
				; wiping scanner's code
end scan


From: M Joonas Pihlaja <jpihlaja@cc.helsinki.fi>
Subject: SAL updated
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:18:04 +0200
Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.58.0502090300130.314512@sirppi.helsinki.fi>


Dear r.g.c.,

Bvowk offered to move the SAL server from the old alpha to a
faster machine.  We took the opportunity to upgrade the OS as
well.  Currently we have two fastish machines working on
evaluating the challengers.  Also some improvements were made to
the server code so that it shouldn't be hanging like it used to
any more, at least in the same way. :-}

Some further things to note:

If you send e-mail to SAL and nothing seems to happen, check
that your email has a properly spelled ";redcode-<hill>" line in
it -- if it doesn't find one, then SAL will ignore your mail on
the assumption that you're trying to sell it something.

Also, if you're not receiving any hill reports any more and would
like to, please check your verbosity setting using the web
interface.  In case any mail to you has ever bounced, then your
verbosity has been automatically set to "quiet".  Sometimes
peoples' mailboxes get full and we want to avoid spamming them
when they're not accepting mail at the moment.


Cheers,

Bvowk, Fizmo, Joonas


From: mystidy@hotmail.com
Subject: make money
Date: 9 Feb 2005 17:20:24 -0800
Message-ID: <1107998424.644210.132820@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

From: mystidy@hotmail.com

Subject: DO YOU WANT TO OBTAIN MANY DOLLARS?
Date: 10 feb. 2005 14:13:40 -0800



YOU WANT TO OBTAIN MANY DOLLARS ?
I've been trying to figure out the way to make extra money in the
internet, checking news groups and ads.  It's not easy but I try to
keep an open mind to opportunities.  In these websites you would find
messages like the one described further below.  The message got me
thinking:This is just a chain, I don't buy it. But, what if it works?
It's not something new. People have been doing it for decades and I've
never heard of anyone that have acctually made some money out of it.
But, what if it works? When you really think about it, this is a real
job.  I finally made up my mind and here I go.  If you made up your
mind too, or if you're still giving it a little more thought, keep
reading.  It won't be easy.  Putting this message on every single
website that you can think of, like news, newsgroups and ads will be
necessary. The more you do it, the better for you (and for me too, of
course), that's why it's a real job.  It'll take some hours of
advertising and promoting.
This chain is different because it doesn't depend on five or ten
persons to whom the masseges would have to be sent by tradditional
mail.  With the internet, the message is sent worldwide, available to
thousands and someone (like me) it's going to go for it.  Finally, did
you think how much you're going to learn from this kind of task so you
can use this knowledge on future jobs or projects?
Now my name is the last one on the list, where, if you decide to go
on, you'll put yours at the end leaving my name as the one before
last.  I wish you good luck, because part of this luck is for me too.

This is the message I found:

"A few days back, when I was visiting news websites, just like you are
now, I saw an article, very similiar to this one, saying you can make
thousands of dollars in just a few weeks by investing only US$6=B0=B0! I
thougt: "Oh no! Another fraud?" But just like most of us, I got very
curious and I kept reading.  The article showed six names and
addresses for you to send US$1=B0=B0. Then, you have to write your name
at
the end of the list replacing the one on #6 and send the article to at
least 200 "newsgroups" (there are thousands of these all around the
world).  There's no trick, that was it.
The big difference between this chain system and others is that you
have a list of six members instead of five.  This means that your
average profit will be fifteen times higher!!!  After thinking it
through with my friends, I decided to give it a try.  After all, I had
nothing to lose but six stamps and US$6=B0=B0, right?
I was worried about the whole thing being legal, so I contacted the
Correo Central de Chile and they confirmed this chain is completely
legal!!
So I invested my US$6=B0=B0.....GUESS WHAT!!!... seven days later, I
started to recieve money by mail!!! I was really surprised!!! I still
thought this would end in a few days, but the money kept comming!!!
The first week I made from US$20=B0=B0 to US$30=B0=B0. By the end of the
second week, I had made a total of US$1.000=B0=B0!!!!! By the third week
I
got more than US$10.000=B0=B0 and I was getting more. This is my fourth
week and I've made over US$41.000=B0=B0 and It's still comming ( my
family
spend the time opening the envelopes and I spend my time finding
"newsgroups"). This is getting serious!!!
At the end, it really paid the US$6=B0=B0 and six stamps investment. I
sure spent more on lotto!!!
Let me explain how it works, and most of all, the reason why it works
so well.  Make sure to print a copy of this article RIGHT NOW so you
can get all the information needed.

It's a very simple 3 step process:

STEP N=B01: Get six pieces of paper and write this down on everyone:
"PLEASE INCLUDE ME IN YOUR ADDRESS LIST OR E-MAIL." Now get six
US$1=B0=B0
bills. Then, fold the papers and put the one dollar bill in each so it
won't be seen through the envelope.  It'll be better if you cover the
bill with a dark color paper so it won't be stolen.  At the end you'll
have six sealed envelopes with six one dollar bills enclolsed. By
doing this you're creating a "service" which makes it ABSOLUTELY
LEGAL!!!

Send the envelopes to the following addresses:


1=2E Jorge Balc=E1zar
Convento San Juan de los Lagos N=B0 36, Jardines de Santa M=F3nica, C.P.
54050, Tlalnepantla, Estado de Mexico, M=C9XICO

2=2E Marco Vinicio Gramajo Leal
2a. Avenida 4-66 Zona 1, Mazatenango Suchitepequez, Guatemala, Centro
Am=E9rica.

3=2E Ricardo Portillo Arteaga
Calle Gonzalo de Berceo N=BA 52 piso 2=BA letra B, codigo postal 26005,
Logro=F1o - La Rioja, Espa=F1a.



4=2E Javier Pi=F1eros Barreto
Carrera 72 No 62 f 33 sur, manzana 2 entrada 3 apto 102, Urbanizaci=F3n
Calabria, Bogota Colombia,

5=2E JAVIER DARIO ARENAS
Apartado postal : 243003
ADPOSTAL: Palmira - Valle Del Cauca - Colombia
Email:  adarting@hotmail.com o darting@latimail.com

6=2E Diana Roth
439 Lake Drive South, Keswick, Ontario, Canada. L4P 1P7

STEP2: Remove name #1 of the top of the list and move the other names
one number up (#6 becomes #5 and so on), add your name and address as
#6. REMEMBER, YOU MUST REMOVE #1 NOT #6, MODIFY THE NUMBER ON THE
REMAINING NAMES AND ADD YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS TO THE LIST AS #6.

STEP3: Change all those things you consider to be changed in this
article, but try to keep it as close to the original as possible.  Now
put your article on at least 200 "newsgroups" (there are more than
24.000 groups).  Just search in google.com by the keyword "newsgroups"
and you'll find more than 56.000 items.  You just need 200, but the
more you put the article  on line, the more money you'll get!!

These are instructions to get into the "Newsgroups":

N=B01 Since you must have your own article, there's no need to write it
all over again.  Just select the whole text and use the "copy"
function from the "edit" menu.

N=B02 Create a "notepad" file and "paste" the text, also using this
function from the "edit" menu. Now you have the text as a notepad file
and you can add your name and address as #6.

N=B03 Save the text as a .txt file.  This will make It easier for you to
 make changes on the text whenever you want.

FOR THOSE WHO USE NETSCAPE

N=B04 In the Netscape browser go to "window" and select "netscapeNews".
Then, select "options" from the menu and then selct "show all
Newsgroups" so you can get the list of all the "Newsgroups" in the
server. Click on any of the newsgroups, and then click on "TO NEWS",
it should appear at the top on the left.  This will lead you to the
messages box.

N=B05 Fill in that space.  That will be the title everyone will see when
visiting any group.

N=B06 Copy your article and paste it there. Go back to the Newsgroup and
"TO NEWS" and you'll be creating and pasting inside the program or
"posting".

N=B07 Click on "send" AND YOU'RE DONE!..CONGRATULATIONS!!

TO THOSE WHO USE INTERNET EXPLORER

Step N=B04 Go to Newsgroups and select "Post an article".

Step N=B05 Load the article

Step N=B06 Repeat step N=B06 for the Netscape users.

Step N=B07 Press "Post"

THAT'S ALL! All you have to do is search for different Newsgroups.

After a few loads, It'll take like 30 seconds to put the article in
each newsgroup!
Eventually you might want to get a P.O Box  &#8216;cause you're gonna
get a
great ammount of envelopes.  You can also use a nickname as long as
the address is correct.  MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE ADDRESSES ARE CORRECT.

Now, let's check the numbers:
Supose I only get 5 answers out of 200 sent messages (which is a
really low example), then I made US$5=B0=B0 with my name as #6 on the
list.  Now, if everyone who sent me US$1=B0=B0 contact a minimum of 200
Newsgroups too, all of them with my name as #5 on the list, and just
five answer to the 5 original messages, I'll get US$25=B0=B0.  This 25
persons put my name as #4 on a minimum of 200 Newsgroups getting just
5 answers I'd be makin another US$125=B0=B0.  Then, 125 persons put my
name as #3 on a minimum of 200 Newsgroups, again getting just 5
answers, I'd be getting another US$625=B0=B0 and so on!! With my name as
#2 I'll get US$3.125=B0=B0, and as #1, US$15.625!!!
Now, as I said before, getting only 5 answers is extreme, the real
average of answers is 20 to 30, so DO THE MATH!!!
Once your name is out of the list, get the last ad on the newsgroup
and send the US$6=B0=B0 to the names listed and put yours as #6 and start
all over!!
Just remember: Thousands of people all around the world surf the
Internet every day reading the article just like you and me! So I
think many of them wont see a problem on investing US$6=B0=B0 to see if
it
really works.  I know that some will think, "what if no one answers?"
No way!!! What are the chances that will happen, when there are
millions of honest persons (like us) who need to pay bills, who are
looking for financial independence and who are willing to give it a
shot.
You can also do this by getting at least 200 e-mails.  With this
system, the probbability of success is 5% to 15%.  Eather way you do
it, always remember to be honest and I promise you It will work.
Just make sure to print this article NOW. Try to keep a list to track
all those who sent you money. Keep checking the newsgroups so you can
see if everyone is playing fair.  REMEMBER, HONESTY IS THE BEST WAY TO
GET WHAT YOU WANT.  I've heard of people who sent the message with
their names on the list but without sending the money and they hardly
recieved any money back.
TIME IS IMPORTANT! Don't wait more than seven days from the moment you
see this article! Let's follow the rules so we can all win! Don't
forget to mention this extra money on your tax declaration. THANK YOU
AND GOOD LUCK!



From: Evangelist_2005@sbcglobal.net
Subject: JESUS CHRIST WENT TO THE CROSS SO YOU CAN GO TO HEAVEN - The good news is that God came from Heaven to earth in the person of Jesus Christ over 2000 years ago and died for our past, present and future sins(misdeeds). He was born in the land of Israel supernaturally to a virgin Jewish woman named Mary. He lived a sinless life for thirty-three years and then sacrificed His sinless blood and died on a cross to pay the death penalty for our sins.....
Date: 11 Feb 2005 18:50:12 -0800
Message-ID: <1108176612.414576.197980@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

Good News!


Do you know how simple it is to go to Heaven after this
life has ended?


The good news is that God came from Heaven to earth
in the person of Jesus Christ over 2000 years ago and
died for our past, present and future sins(misdeeds).
He was born in the land of Israel supernaturally to a
virgin Jewish woman named Mary. He lived a sinless life
for thirty-three years and then sacrificed His sinless
blood and died on a cross to pay the death penalty for
our sins.


After Jesus died He rose from the dead three days later
as He said He would. The Holy Bible also tells us that
Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven and that all who accept
Him as their Lord and Saviour will live forever with Him
in Heaven where there is no more death, sorrow, sickness
and pain.


The Holy Bible very clearly explains how simple it is
to be saved and on your way to Heaven, "For if you
confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe
in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you
WILL BE SAVED." (Romans 10:9)


You can be saved right now and on your way to Heaven if
you will open your heart to Jesus and pray the following
prayer:


Dear Jesus Christ, I want to be saved so that I can have
a home in Heaven when I die. I agree with You that I am a
sinner. I believe You love me and want to save me. I
believe that You bled and died on the cross to pay the
penalty for my sins. I believe that You rose from the dead.
Please forgive my sins and come into my heart and be my
Lord and Saviour. Thank You Lord Jesus Christ for
forgiving me and saving me through Your merciful grace.
Amen.


You are now a Christian if you said the prayer and allowed
God to save you. Welcome to the family of God.


If you decide to wait till later you may die before you get
another chance to be saved because none of us knows
exactly when we will die.


Have a great day!
Internet Evangelist R.L. Grossi



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Animation
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The Passion Of The Christ
http://www.worshipmusic.com/0310263670.html


Beware Of Cults
http://www.carm.org/cults/cultlist.htm


About Hell
http://www.equip.org/free/DH198.htm


Is Jesus God? 
http://www.powertochange.com/questions/qna2.html



From: kaukasius@yahoo.de (el kauka)
Subject: Re: irc-tournament relaunch
Date: 12 Feb 2005 12:22:42 -0800
Message-ID: <f889e2e6.0502121222.ce1e866@posting.google.com>

hrm, it was a bit disapointing to be the onlyone in the chan (besids
miz&pdz).

have you guys forgotten about the tournament? or simply none of you
want to take part?

el kauka


From: "Nenad Tomasev" <tomasev@nspoint.net>
Subject: Re: irc-tournament relaunch
Date: 13 Feb 2005 09:09:11 -0800
Message-ID: <1108314551.163079.5220@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Hi!
I must've missed the "irc-tournament relaunch" message. I'm interested
to take part in these mini tournaments. When are you planning to meet
for the  next round?



From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Adamowski?= <corewars@wp.pl>
Subject: IRC Tournament
Date: 13 Feb 2005 17:29:54 -0500
Message-ID: <420fbe9d216a1@wp.pl>

Sorry! Yes, I've forgotten. I "woke up" about midnight (it is about 10pm GMT). And one more thing: we used to play on Sunday night, not Saturday. When I saw the message at the first glance I thought it will be Sunday too. Actually I do prefer Sunday. Can we meet on Sundays?
Lukasz

-= "War is a problem, never a solution" =-
-= "Wojna jest problemem, a nie rozwiazaniem" =-

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From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - Standard 02/14/05
Date: 14 Feb 2005 09:00:52 -0500
Message-ID: <200502140500.j1E500LU024471@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/14/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Standard KotH CoreWar Hill :

Last battle concluded at : Tue Jan 18 10:10:37 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  37/ 29/ 35         The Next Step '88        David Houston     144      34
 2  42/ 40/ 18              Scan the Can    Christian Schmidt     144      14
 3  39/ 40/ 21             Tangle Trap 3          David Moore     139      47
 4  31/ 25/ 44            The Hurricaner            G.Labarga     138       5
 5  39/ 40/ 21                My 1st try    Christian Schmidt     137      50
 6  31/ 26/ 43                      Test Alexander (Sasha) Wa     136     158
 7  31/ 27/ 42             Freight Train          David Moore     135     219
 8  38/ 42/ 20                  Moonwipe    Christian Schmidt     134      15
 9  38/ 42/ 20                    Stasis          David Moore     134     326
10  41/ 49/ 10             Scan Test C 6        Steve Gunnell     134      57
11  30/ 28/ 42                  Guardian          Ian Oversby     133     218
12  36/ 39/ 25                    PacMan          David Moore     133     248
13  41/ 49/ 10              Speeed 88mph    Christian Schmidt     132      18
14  33/ 33/ 34                  The Seed         Roy van Rijn     132      36
15  29/ 27/ 44                      test            G.Labarga     131       1
16  29/ 28/ 42                    A.I.P.    Christian Schmidt     130      26
17  35/ 41/ 24               '88 test IV         John Metcalf     130     112
18  38/ 47/ 15  Cold as November Rain...         John Metcalf     130      32
19  20/ 11/ 68                 IMParable            G.Labarga     129       6
20  22/ 16/ 62               Utterer '88    Christian Schmidt     129       2

21  31/ 34/ 36                      vala         John Metcalf     127     141



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status -  94 No Pspace 02/14/05
Date: 14 Feb 2005 09:00:45 -0500
Message-ID: <200502140509.j1E590hX024693@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/14/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG 94 No Pspace CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sun Feb 13 09:54:16 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  35/ 28/ 37             The Humanizer            bvowk/fiz     142      44
 2  34/ 29/ 37                Hullabaloo         Roy van Rijn     139     156
 3  34/ 30/ 36                    Borgir    Christian Schmidt     137     191
 4  31/ 28/ 42                Gargantuan         Roy van Rijn     134     177
 5  40/ 46/ 14                     Arrow    Christian Schmidt     134     359
 6  26/ 18/ 55              Black Knight    Christian Schmidt     134     181
 7  25/ 16/ 59                    S.D.N.    Christian Schmidt     134      81
 8  40/ 47/ 13         Kenshin D Test 30        Steve Gunnell     133       1
 9  25/ 16/ 59                 Maelstrom         Roy van Rijn     133     300
10  38/ 45/ 17       Origin of Storms II      Metcalf/Schmidt     131      33
11  36/ 42/ 22                 Beat this          Sascha Zapf     130       5
12  36/ 43/ 21        HazyLazy Test C 30 Steve Gunnell / Chri     130       3
13  28/ 26/ 46                     New-T         Roy van Rijn     130      90
14  26/ 22/ 52                 stray cat         John Metcalf     130      10
15  36/ 43/ 20          thoughts of fire         John Metcalf     129      56
16  22/ 15/ 63            Chainlock v02a            G.Labarga     129      39
17  27/ 26/ 47 paper(paper(paper(clear))          Sascha Zapf     128     260
18  35/ 43/ 22                    NSos15        Nenad Tomasev     128       2
19  34/ 42/ 24                      test         Roy van Rijn     127      26
20  22/ 17/ 61               The Utterer    Christian Schmidt     127      16

21  34/ 42/ 24            picture walker         John Metcalf     126      12



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - ICWS Experimental 94 02/14/05
Date: 14 Feb 2005 09:00:47 -0500
Message-ID: <200502140506.j1E5600X024587@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/14/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG ICWS Experimental 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Thu Feb 10 13:32:20 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  44/ 36/ 20             Fatamorgana X           Zul Nadzri     153       3
 2  41/ 37/ 22             The X Machine           Zul Nadzri     145      27
 3  31/ 20/ 50                xd100 test        David Houston     141      13
 4  40/ 40/ 20              Eliminator X           Zul Nadzri     141      28
 5  42/ 45/ 13           Fire and Ice II          David Moore     140     116
 6  40/ 40/ 21               Black Moods          Ian Oversby     140     212
 7  23/  9/ 68              Evol Cap 4 X       John Wilkinson     138     285
 8  24/ 13/ 63                    Denial          David Moore     136     157
 9  31/ 27/ 42                    KAT v5          Dave Hillis     136     148
10  38/ 40/ 22                      Ogre    Christian Schmidt     135     164
11  25/ 17/ 57                       Kin         John Metcalf     134     124
12  28/ 24/ 48                 Glenstorm         John Metcalf     133      78
13  37/ 41/ 23        Simply Intelligent           Zul Nadzri     133       9
14  20/  7/ 73             Evolve X v4.0       John Wilkinson     133     233
15  34/ 38/ 28              Trefoil F 13        Steve Gunnell     131      99
16  29/ 28/ 42                  Olivia X             Ben Ford     131      97
17  35/ 39/ 26     Controlled Aggression          Ian Oversby     130     216
18  37/ 44/ 19        Giant Hazy Test 13        Steve Gunnell     130      43
19  28/ 28/ 44               Venom v0.2b    Christian Schmidt     129     238
20  40/ 53/  7   something from darkwood         John Metcalf     126       1

21  24/ 58/ 18    beneath the thorn bush         John Metcalf      90       0



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - MultiWarrior 94 02/14/05
Date: 14 Feb 2005 09:00:50 -0500
Message-ID: <200502140503.j1E530Gq024513@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/14/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Multiwarrior 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sun Feb 13 08:25:11 EST 2005
 
 #                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1                 SSD-clear                  Neo      39      34
 2 kingdom of the grasshoppe     simon wainwright      35       9
 3          a scanner darkly             el kauka      26      28
 4    beneath the thorn bush         John Metcalf      26       3
 5       Make it easy (test)            G.Labarga      24       2
 6                 stray cat         John Metcalf      19      10
 7                Hiperblast            G.Labarga      18      19
 8 sauron's eye v1.01 (mini              el kauka      18      33
 9               eyes closed         John Metcalf      15       4
10                   longbow         John Metcalf      13       1

11                Da Utterer    Christian Schmidt      11      21



From: "Apache" <apacheserver2000@hotmail.com>
Subject: off-topic: Avida (artifical life) article
Message-ID: <ceqQd.38393$o9.34674@amsnews03-serv.chello.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 17:23:20 GMT

http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2005/articles_2005_Avida.html 




From: Lukasz Grabun <grabek@invalid.com>
Subject: Re: Oneshot: The Boss is back again!
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:34:03 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <slrnd14qg3.2l1.grabek@localhost.localdomain>

On 7 Feb 2005 05:04:04 -0800, Neogryzor wrote:

> As all oneshots is quite sensitive to the hill ballance. It would
> survive longer with more stone/imps on the hill.

My next one would shrug them off with ease. *sigh* :-)
Time to compile pmars again and to the drawing board.



From: kaukasius@yahoo.de (el kauka)
Subject: Re: irc-tournament relaunch
Date: 16 Feb 2005 12:42:59 -0800
Message-ID: <f889e2e6.0502161242.79d6aaac@posting.google.com>

"Nenad Tomasev" <tomasev@nspoint.net> wrote in message news:<1108314551.163079.5220@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>...

what about this sunday? (20th february - 8pm GMT) 

el kauka


> Hi!
> I must've missed the "irc-tournament relaunch" message. I'm interested
> to take part in these mini tournaments. When are you planning to meet
> for the  next round?


From: "Nenad Tomasev" <tomasev@nspoint.net>
Subject: Re: irc-tournament relaunch
Date: 16 Feb 2005 16:01:23 -0800
Message-ID: <1108598483.589131.172040@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Sure, why not?
I'll be there...


el kauka wrote:
> "Nenad Tomasev" <tomasev@nspoint.net> wrote in message
news:<1108314551.163079.5220@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>...
>
> what about this sunday? (20th february - 8pm GMT)
>
> el kauka
>
>
> > Hi!
> > I must've missed the "irc-tournament relaunch" message. I'm
interested
> > to take part in these mini tournaments. When are you planning to
meet
> > for the  next round?



From: Christoph Birk <birk@ociw.edu>
Subject: Koenigstuhl News
Date: 17 Feb 2005 14:17:32 -0500
Message-ID: <200502171838.KAA05842@andromeda.ociw.edu>

Contragulation to Nenad Tomasev!
His program 'PerfectTimev2' is (AFAIK) the first program to enter
the OPEN-Koenigstuhl at a higher rank than on the 94nop-Koenigstuhl.

Christoph
http://www.ociw.edu/~birk/COREWAR/koenigstuhl.html



From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Adamowski?= <corewars@wp.pl>
Subject: Odp: off-topic: Avida (artifical life) article
Date: 17 Feb 2005 15:32:57 -0500
Message-ID: <4214eedfc0c4f@wp.pl>

Dnia 15-02-2005 o godz. 18:31 Apache napisal(a):
> http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2005/articles_2005_Avida.html 

I don't know who sent this article, but I liked it very much. Thanks!
Lukasz Adamowski

-= "War is a problem, never a solution" =-
-= "Wojna jest problemem, a nie rozwiazaniem" =-

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Message-ID: <games/corewar-faq_1108791094@rtfm.mit.edu>
From: anton@paradise.net.nz (Anton Marsden)
Subject: Core War Frequently Asked Questions (rec.games.corewar FAQ)
Date: 19 Feb 2005 05:32:20 GMT

Archive-name: games/corewar-faq
Last-Modified: September 4, 1999
Version: 4.2
URL: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~anton/cw/corewar-faq.html
Copyright: (c) 1999 Anton Marsden
Maintainer: Anton Marsden <anton@paradise.net.nz>
Posting-Frequency: once every 2 weeks

Core War Frequently Asked Questions

(rec.games.corewar FAQ)

These are the Frequently Asked Questions (and answers) from the Usenet
newsgroup rec.games.corewar. 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 Marsden
(anton@paradise.net.nz).

Last modified: Sat Sep 4 00:22:22 NZST 1999
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To Do

   * Add the new No-PSpace '94 hill location
   * Add online location of Dewdney's articles
   * Make question 17 easier to understand. Add a state diagram?
   * Add info about infinite hills, related games (C-Robots, Tierra?, ...)
   * New question: How do I know if my warrior is any good? Refer to
     beginners' benchmarks, etc.
   * Add a Who's Who list?
   * Would very much like someone to compile a collection of the
     "revolutionary" warriors so that beginners can see how the game has
     developed over the years. Mail me if interested.

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What's New

   * Changed primary location of FAQ (again!)
   * Changed Philip Kendall's home page address.
   * Updated list server information
   * Changed primary location of FAQ
   * Vector-launching code was fixed thanks to Ting Hsu.
   * Changed the location of Ryan Coleman's paper (LaunchPad -> Launchpad)
   * Changed pauillac.inria.fr to para.inria.fr

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Table of Contents

  1. What is Core War
  2. Is it "Core War" or "Core Wars"?
  3. Where can I find more information about Core War?
  4. Core War has changed since Dewdney's articles. Where do I get a copy of
     the current instruction set?
  5. What is ICWS'94? Which simulators support ICWS'94?
  6. What is the ICWS?
  7. What is Core Warrior?
  8. Where are the Core War archives?
  9. Where can I find a Core War system for ...?
 10. Where can I find warrior code?
 11. I do not have FTP. How do I get all this great stuff?
 12. I do not have access to Usenet. How do I post and receive news?
 13. Are there any Core War related WWW sites?
 14. What is KotH? How do I enter?
 15. Is it DAT 0, 0 or DAT #0, #0? How do I compare to core?
 16. How does SLT (Skip if Less Than) work?
 17. What is the difference between in-register and in-memory evaluation?
 18. What is P-space?
 19. What does "Missing ;assert .." in my message from KotH mean?
 20. How should I format my code?
 21. Are there any other Core War related resources I should know about?
 22. What does (expression or term of your choice) mean?
 23. Other questions?

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1. What is Core War?

Core 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 is to cause all processes of the opposing program to terminate, leaving
your program in sole posession of the machine.

There are Core War systems available for most computer platforms. Redcode
has been standardised by the ICWS, and is therefore transportable between
all standard Core War systems.

The system in which the programs run is quite simple. The core (the memory
of the simulated computer) is a continuous array of instructions, empty
except for the competing programs. The core wraps around, so that after the
last instruction comes the first one again.

There are no absolute addresses in Core War. That is, the address 0 doesn't
mean the first instruction in the memory, but the instruction that contains
the address 0. The next instruction is 1, and the previous one obviously -1.
However, all numbers are treated as positive, and are in the range 0 to
CORESIZE-1 where CORESIZE is the amount of memory locations in the core -
this means that -1 would be treated as CORESIZE-1 in any arithmetic
operations, eg. 3218 + 7856 = (3218 + 7856) mod CORESIZE. Many people get
confused by this, and it is particularly important when using the SLT
instruction. Note that the source code of a program can still contain
negative numbers, but if you start using instructions like DIV #-2, #5 it is
important to know what effect they will have when executed.

The basic unit of memory in Core War is one instruction. Each Redcode
instruction contains three parts:

   * the opcode
   * the source address (a.k.a. the A-field)
   * the destination address (a.k.a. the B-field)

The execution of the programs is equally simple. The MARS executes one
instruction at a time, and then proceeds to the next one in the memory,
unless the instruction explicitly tells it to jump to another address. If
there is more than one program running, (as is usual) the programs execute
alternately, one instruction at a time. The execution of each instruction
takes the same time, one cycle, whether it is MOV, DIV or even DAT (which
kills the process).

Each program may have several processes running. These processes are stored
in a task queue. When it is the program's turn to execute an instruction it
dequeues a process and executes the corresponding instruction. Processes
that are not killed during the execution of the instruction are put back
into the task queue. Processes created by a SPL instruction are added to the
task queue after the creating process is put back into the task queue.

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2. Is it "Core War" or "Core Wars"?

Both terms are used. Early references were to Core War. Later references
seem to use Core Wars. I prefer "Core War" to refer to the game in general,
"core wars" to refer to more than one specific battle.

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3. Where can I find more information about Core War?

Core War was first described in the Core War Guidelines of March, 1984 by D.
G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney of the Department of Computer Science at The
University of Western Ontario (Canada). Dewdney wrote several "Computer
Recreations" articles in Scientific American which discussed Core War,
starting with the May 1984 article. Those articles are contained in two
anthologies:

                                                                Library of
  Author         Title         Published          ISBN           Congress
                                                                Call Number
           The Armchair
 Dewdney,  Universe: An       New York: W.                     QA76.6 .D517
 A. K.     Exploration of     H. Freeman �0-7167-1939-8        1988
           Computer Worlds    1988
           The Magic                      0-7167-2125-2
 Dewdney,  Machine: A         New York: W.(Hardcover),         QA76.6
 A. K.     Handbook of        H. Freeman �0-7167-2144-9        .D5173 1990
           Computer Sorcery   1990        (Paperback)

A.K. Dewdney's articles are still the most readable introduction to Core
War, even though the Redcode dialect described in there is no longer
current. For those who are interested, Dewdney has a home page at
http://www.csd.uwo.ca/faculty/akd/.

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4. Core War has changed since Dewdney's articles. Where do I get a copy of
the current instruction set?

A draft of the official standard (ICWS'88) is available as
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/standards/redcode-icws-88.Z. This
document is formatted awkwardly and contains ambiguous statements. For a
more approachable intro to Redcode, take a look at Mark Durham's tutorials,
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/tutorial.1.Z and
ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/tutorial.2.Z.

Steven Morrell has prepared a more practically oriented Redcode tutorial
that discusses different warrior classes with lots of example code. This and
various other tutorials can be found at http://www.koth.org/papers.html.

Even though ICWS'88 is still the "official" standard, you will find that
most people are playing by ICWS'94 draft rules and extensions.

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5. What is ICWS'94? Which simulators support ICWS'94?

There is an ongoing discussion about future enhancements to the Redcode
language. A proposed new standard, dubbed ICWS'94, is currently being
evaluated. A major change is the addition of "instruction modifiers" that
allow instructions to modify A-field, B-field or both. Also new is a new
addressing modes and unrestricted opcode and addressing mode combination
("no illegal instructions"). ICWS'94 is backwards compatible; i.e. ICWS'88
warriors will run correctly on an ICWS'94 system. Take a look at the ICWS'94
draft at ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/documents/icws94.0202.Z for more
information. There is a HTML version of this document available at
http://www.koth.org/info/icws94.html. You can try out the new standard by
submitting warriors to the '94 hills of the KotH servers. Two corewar
systems currently support ICWS'94, pMARS (many platforms) and Redcoder
(Mac), both available at ftp://www.koth.org/corewar. Note that Redcoder only
supports a subset of ICWS'94.

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6. What is the ICWS?

About one year after Core War first appeared in Scientific American, the
"International Core War Society" (ICWS) was established. Since that time,
the ICWS has been responsible for the creation and maintenance of Core War
standards and the running of Core War tournaments. There have been six
annual tournaments and two standards (ICWS'86 and ICWS'88). The ICWS is no
longer active.

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7. What is Core Warrior?

Following in the tradition of the Core War News Letter, Push Off, and The 94
Warrior, Core Warrior is a newsletter about strategies and current standings
in Core War. Started in October 1995, back issues of Core Warrior (and the
other newsletters) are available at http://para.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/.
There is also a Core Warrior index page at
http://www.kendalls.demon.co.uk/pak21/corewar/warrior.html which has a
summary of the contents of each issue of Core Warrior. Many of the earlier
issues contain useful information for beginners.

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8. Where are the Core War archives?

Many documents such as the guidelines and the ICWS standards along with
previous tournament Redcode entries and complete Core War systems are
available via anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/corewar.
Also, most of past rec.games.corewar postings (including Redcode source
listings) are archived there. Jon Blow (blojo@csua.berkeley.edu) is the
archive administrator. When uploading to /pub/corewar/incoming, ask Jon to
move your upload to the appropriate directory and announce it on the net.

This site is mirrored at:

   * http://www.koth.org/corewar/
   * ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/
   * ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/mirror

The plain text version of this FAQ is automatically archived by news.answers
(but this version is probably out-of-date).

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9. Where can I find a Core War system for . . . ?

Core War systems are available via anonymous FTP from www.koth.org in the
corewar/systems directory. Currently, there are UNIX, IBM PC-compatible,
Macintosh, and Amiga Core War systems available there. It is a good idea to
check ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/incoming for program updates first.

CAUTION! There are many, many Core War systems available which are NOT
ICWS'88 (or even ICWS'86) compatible available at various archive sites
other than www.koth.org. Generally, the older the program - the less likely
it will be ICWS compatible.

If you are looking for an ICWS'94 simulator, get pMARS, which is available
for many platforms and can be downloaded from:

   * ftp://ftp.csua.berkeley.edu/pub/corewar (original site)
   * ftp://www.koth.org/corewar (koth.org mirror)
   * ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/mirror (Planar
     mirror)
   * http://www.nc5.infi.net/~wtnewton/corewar/ (Terry Newton)
   * ftp://members.aol.com/ofechner/corewar (Fechter)

Notes:

   * If you have trouble running pMARS with a graphical display under Win95
     then check out http://www.koth.org/pmars.html which should have a
     pointer to the latest compilation of pMARS for this environment.
   * RPMs for the Alpha, PowerPC, Sparc and i386 can be found at
     ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/para/doligez/cw/pmars-rpm/

Reviews of Core War systems would be greatly appreciated in the newsgroup
and in the newsletter.

Below is a not necessarily complete or up-to-date list of what's available
at www.koth.org:
MADgic41.lzh            corewar for the Amiga, v4.1
MAD4041.lzh             older version?
MAD50B.lha              corewar for the Amiga, beta version 5.0

Redcoder-21.hqx         corewar for the Mac, supports ICWS'88 and '94
                        (without extensions)
core-11.hqx             corewar for the Mac
core-wars-simulator.hqx same as core-11.hqx?

corewar_unix_x11.tar.Z  corewar for UNIX/X-windows, ICWS'86 but not ICWS'88
                        compatible

koth31.tar.Z            corewar for UNIX/X-windows. This program ran the
                        former KotH server at intel.com
koth.shar.Z             older version
kothpc.zip              port of older version of KotH to the PC

deluxe20c.tar.Z         corewar for UNIX (broken X-windows or curses) and
                        PC
mars.tar.Z              corewar for UNIX, likely not ICWS'88 compatible
icons.zip               corewar icons for MS-Windows
macrored.zip            a redcode macro-preprocessor (PC)
c88v49.zip              PC corewar, textmode display
mars88.zip              PC corewar, graphics mode display
corwp302.zip            PC corewar, textmode display, slowish
mercury2.zip            PC corewar written in assembly, fast!
mtourn11.zip            tournament scheduler for mercury (req. 4DOS)

pmars08s.zip            portable system, ICWS'88 and '94, runs on UNIX, PC,
                        Mac, Amiga. C source archive
pmars08s.tar.Z          same as above
pmars08.zip             PC executables with graphics display, req 386+

macpmars02.sit.hqx      pMARS executable for Mac (port of version 0.2)
                        buggy, no display
MacpMARS1.99a.cpt.hqx   port of v0.8 for the Mac, with display and debugger
MacpMARS1.0s.cpt.hqx    C source (MPW, ThinkC) for Mac frontend

pvms08.zip              pMARS v0.8 for VMS build files/help (req.
                        pmars08s.zip)
ApMARS03.lha            pMARS executable for Amiga (port of version 0.3.1)
wincor11.zip            MS-Windows system, shareware ($15)

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10. Where can I find warrior code?

To learn the game, it is a good idea to study previously posted warrior
code. The FTP archives have code in the ftp://www.koth.org/corewar/redcode
directory. A clearly organized on-line warrior collection is available at
the Core War web sites (see below).

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11. I do not have FTP. How do I get all this great stuff?

There is an FTP email server at bitftp@pucc.princeton.edu. This address may
no longer exist. I haven't tested it yet. Send email with a subject and body
text of "help" (without the quotes) for more information on its usage. Note
that many FTP email gateways are shutting down due to abuse. To get a
current list of FTP email servers, look at the Accessing the Internet by
E-mail FAQ posted to news.answers. If you don't have access to Usenet, you
can retrieve this FAQ one of the following ways:

   * Send mail to mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu with the body containing "send
     usenet/news.answers/internet-services/access-via-email".
   * Send mail to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk with the body containing "send
     lis-iis e-access-inet.txt".

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12. I do not have access to Usenet. How do I post and receive news?

To receive rec.games.corewar articles by email, join the COREWAR-L list run
on the Koth.Org list processor. To join, send the message

     SUB COREWAR-L FirstName LastName

to listproc@koth.org. You can send mail to corewar-l@koth.org to post even
if you are not a member of the list. Responsible for the listserver is Scott
J. Ellentuch (ttsg@ttsg.com).

Servers that allow you to post (but not receive) articles are available.
Refer to the Accessing the Internet by E-Mail FAQ for more information.

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13. Are there any Core War related WWW sites?

You bet. Each of the two KotH sites sport a world-wide web server.
Stormking's Core War page is http://www.koth.org; pizza's is
http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/koth . Damien Doligez (a.k.a. Planar)
has a web page that features convenient access to regular newsletters (Push
Off, The '94 Warrior, Core Warrior) and a well organized library of
warriors: http://para.inria.fr/~doligez/corewar/. Convenient for U.S. users,
this site is also mirrored at koth.org.

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14. What is KotH? How do I enter?

King Of The Hill (KotH) is an ongoing Core War tournament available to
anyone with email. You enter by submitting via email a Redcode program
(warrior) with special comment lines. You will receive a reply indicating
how well your program did against the current top programs "on the hill".

There are two styles of KotH tournaments, "classical" and "multi-warrior".
The "classical" KotH is a one-on-one tournament, that is your warrior will
play 100 battles against each of the 20 other programs currently on the
Hill. You receive 3 points for each win and 1 point for each tie. (The
existing programs do not replay each other, but their previous battles are
recalled.) All scores are updated to reflect your battles and all 21
programs are ranked from high to low. If you are number 21 you are pushed
off the Hill, if you are higher than 21 someone else is pushed off.

In "multi-warrior" KotH, all warriors on the hill fight each other at the
same time. Score calculation is a bit more complex than for the one-on-one
tournament. Briefly, points are awarded based on how many warriors survive
until the end of a round. A warrior that survives by itself gets more points
than a warrior that survives together with other warriors. Points are
calculated from the formula (W*W-1)/S, where W is the total number of
warriors and S the number of surviving warriors. The pMARS documentation has
more information on multi-warrior scoring.

The idea for an email-based Core War server came from David Lee. The
original KotH was developed and run by William Shubert at Intel starting in
1991, and discontinued after almost three years of service. Currently, KotHs
based on Bill's UNIX scripts but offering a wider variety of hills are are
running at two sites: koth@koth.org is maintained by Scott J. Ellentuch
(tuc@ttsg.com) and pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu by Thomas H. Davies
(sd@ecst.csuchico.edu). Up until May '95, the two sites provided overlapping
services, i.e. the some of the hill types were offered by both "pizza" and
"stormking". To conserve resources, the different hill types are now divided
up among the sites. The way you submit warriors to both KotHs is pretty much
the same. Therefore, the entry rules described below apply to both "pizza"
and "stormking" unless otherwise noted.

Entry Rules for King of the Hill Corewar

   * Write a corewar program. KotH is fully ICWS '88 compatible, EXCEPT that
     a comma (",") is required between two arguments.

   * Put a line starting with ";redcode" (or ";redcode-94", etc., see below)
     at the top of your program. This MUST be the first line. Anything
     before it will be lost. If you wish to receive mail on every new
     entrant, use ";redcode verbose". Otherwise you will only receive mail
     if a challenger makes it onto the hill. Use ";redcode quiet" if you
     wish to receive mail only when you get shoved off the hill.

     Additionally, adding ";name <program name>" and ";author <your name>"
     will be helpful in the performance reports. Do NOT have a line
     beginning with ";address" in your code; this will confuse the mail
     daemon and you won't get mail back. Using ";name" is mandatory on the
     Pizza hills.

     In addition, it would be nice if you have lines beginning with
     ";strategy" that describe the algorithm you use.

     There are currently seven separate hills you can select by starting
     your program with ;redcode-94, ;redcode-b, ;redcode-lp, ;redcode-x,
     ;redcode, ;redcode-94x or ;redcode-94m. The former four run at "pizza",
     the latter three at "stormking". More information on these hills is
     listed below.

   * Mail this file to koth@koth.org or pizza@ecst.csuchico.edu. "Pizza"
     requires a subject of "koth" (use the -s flag on most mailers).

   * Within a few minutes you should get mail back telling you whether your
     program assembled correctly or not. If it did assemble correctly, sit
     back and wait; if not, make the change required and re-submit.

   * In an hour or so you should get more mail telling you how your program
     performed against the current top 20 (or 10) programs. If no news
     arrives during that time, don't worry; entries are put in a queue and
     run through the tournament one at a time. A backlog may develop. Be
     patient.

If your program makes it onto the hill, you will get mail every time a new
program makes it onto the hill. If this is too much mail, you can use
";redcode[-??] quiet" when you first mail in your program; then you will
only get mail when you make it on the top 25 list or when you are knocked
off. Using ";redcode[-??] verbose" will give you even more mail; here you
get mail every time a new challenger arrives, even if they don't make it
onto the top 25 list.

Often programmers want to try out slight variations in their programs. If
you already have a program named "foo V1.0" on the hill, adding the line
";kill foo" to a new program will automatically bump foo 1.0 off the hill.
Just ";kill" will remove all of your programs when you submit the new one.
The server kills programs by assigning an impossibly low score; it may
therefore take another successful challenge before a killed program is
actually removed from the hill.

Sample Entry

;redcode
;name Dwarf
;author A. K. Dewdney
;strategy Throw DAT bombs around memory, hitting every 4th memory cell.
;strategy This program was presented in the first Corewar article.
bomb  DAT   #0
dwarf ADD   #4,    bomb
      MOV   bomb, @bomb
      JMP   dwarf
      END   dwarf          ; Programs start at the first line unless
                           ; an "END start" pseudo-op appears to indicate
                           ; the first logical instruction.  Also, nothing
                           ; after the END instruction will be assembled.

                                          Duration  Max.
     Hill Name      Hill  Core    Max.     Before  Entry     Min.   Rounds   Instr.
                    Size  Size Processes                   Distance Fought    Set
                                            Tie    Length
 Pizza's ICWS '94
 Draft Hill                                                                 Extended
 (Accessed with       25  8000       8000    80000    100       100     200 ICWS '94
 ";redcode-94")                                                             Draft
 Pizza's Beginner's                                                         Extended
 Hill (Accessed       25  8000       8000    80000    100       100     200 ICWS '94
 with ";redcode-b")                                                         Draft
 Pizza's
 Experimental                                                               Extended
 (Small) Hill         25   800        800     8000     20        20     200 ICWS '94
 (Accessed with                                                             Draft
 ";redcode-x")
 Pizza's Limited
 Process (LP) Hill                                                          Extended
 (Accessed with       25  8000          8    80000    200       200     200 ICWS '94
 ";redcode-lp")                                                             Draft
 Stormking's ICWS
 '88 Standard Hill
 (Accessed with       20  8000       8000    80000    100       100     250 ICWS '88
 ";redcode")
 Stormking's ICWS
 '94 No Pspace Hill
 (Accessed with       20  8000       8000    80000    100       100     250 ICWS '94
 ";redcode-94nop")
 Stormking's ICWS
 '94 Experimental                                                           Extended
 (Big) Hill           20 55440      55440   500000    200       200     250 ICWS '94
 (Accessed with                                                             Draft
 ";redcode-94x")
 Stormking's ICWS
 '94 Multi-Warrior                                                          Extended
 Hill (Accessed       10  8000       8000    80000    100       100     200 ICWS '94
 with                                                                       Draft
 ";redcode-94m")

Note: Warriors on the beginner's hill are retired at age 100.

If you just want to get a status report without actually challenging the
hills, send email with ";status" as the message body (and don't forget
"Subject: koth" for "pizza"). If you send mail to "pizza" with "Subject:
koth help" you will receive instructions that may be more up to date than
those contained in this document.

At "stormking", a message body with ";help" will return brief instructions.
If you submit code containing a ";test" line, your warrior will be assembled
but not actually pitted against the warriors on the hill.

At "pizza", you can use ";redcode[-??] test" to do a test challenge of the
Hill without affecting the status of the Hill. These challenges can be used
to see how well your warrior does against the current Hill warriors.

All hills run portable MARS (pMARS) version 0.8, a platform-independent Core
War system available at www.koth.org.

The '94 and '94x hills allow five experimental opcodes and three
experimental addressing modes currently not covered in the ICWS'94 draft
document:

   * LDP - Load P-Space
   * STP - Store P-Space
   * SEQ - Skip if EQual (synonym for CMP)
   * SNE - Skip if Not Equal
   * NOP - (No OPeration)

   * * - indirect using A-field as pointer
   * { - predecrement indirect using A-field
   * } - postincrement indirect using A-field

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15. Is it DAT 0, 0 or DAT #0, #0? How do I compare to core?

Core is initialized to DAT 0, 0. This is an illegal instruction (in source
code) under ICWS'88 rules and strictly compliant assemblers (such as KotH or
pmars -8) will not let you have a DAT 0, 0 instruction in your source code -
only DAT #0, #0. So this begs the question, how to compare something to see
if it is empty core. The answer is, most likely the instruction before your
first instruction and the instruction after your last instruction are both
DAT 0, 0. You can use them, or any other likely unmodified instructions, for
comparison. Note that under ICWS'94, DAT 0, 0 is a legal instruction.

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16. How does SLT (Skip if Less Than) work?

SLT gives some people trouble because of the way modular arithmetic works.
It is important to note that all negative numbers are converted to positive
numbers before a battles begins. Example: -1 becomes M-1 where M is the
memory size (core size).

Once you realize that all numbers are treated as positive, it is clear what
is meant by "less than". It should also be clear that no number is less than
zero.

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17. What is the difference between in-register and in-memory evaluation?

These terms refer to the way instruction operands are evaluated. The '88
Redcode standard ICWS'88 is unclear about whether a simulator should
"buffer" the result of A-operand evaluation before the B-operand is
evaluated. Simulators that do buffer are said to use in-register evaluation,
those that don't, in-memory evaluation. ICWS'94 clears this confusion by
mandating in-register evaluation. Instructions that execute differently
under these two forms of evaluation are MOV, ADD, SUB, MUL, DIV and MOD
where the effective address of the A-operand is modified by evaluation of
the B-operand. This is best illustrated by an example:

   L1  mov L2, <L2
   L2  dat #0, #1

Under in-register evaluation, the L2 instruction is saved in a buffer before
the L2 memory location is decremented by evaluation of the B-operand of L1.
The saved DAT #0,#1 instruction is then written to L2, leaving it unchanged.

Under in-memory evaluation, the L2 instruction is not buffered and thus
decremented by evaluation of the B-operand. After execution of L1, L2
changes to DAT #0,#0.

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18. What is P-space?

P-space is an area of memory which only your program's processes can access.
The contents of each memory location are preserved between rounds in a
multi-round match.

P-space is in many ways different from the core. First of all, each P-space
location can only store one number, not a whole instruction. Also, the
addressing in P-space is absolute, ie. the P-space address 1 is always 1
regardless of where in the core the instruction containing it is. And last
but not least, P-space can only be accessed by two special instructions, LDP
and STP.

The syntax of these two instructions is a bit unusual. STP, for example, has
an ordinary value in the core as its source, which is put into the P-space
field pointed to by the destination. So the P-space location isn't
determined by the destination address, but by its value, ie. the value that
would be overwritten if this were a MOV. So STP.AB #Q, #R would put the
value Q into the P-space field R mod PSPACESIZE. Similarly,

        stp.b  2, 3
        dat    0, 0
        dat    0, 9
        dat    0, 7

would put the value 9 into the P-space field 7. LDP works the same way,
except that now the source is a P-space field and the destination a core
instruction. The P-space location 0 is a special location. It is initialised
to a special value before each round. This value is:

   * -1 (or CORESIZE-1) at the beginning of the first round
   * 0 if the program died in the previous round
   * The number of surviving programs if the program did not die in the
     previous round

This means that for one-on-one matches, loss=0, win=1 and tie=2.

The default size of P-space is 1/16 of the core size. This size is the value
of the predefined variable PSPACESIZE. The addresses in the P-space wrap
around just like in the core, ie. you can store a value from 0 to CORESIZE-1
in each P-space location. All P-space values (except for location 0) are 0
initially.

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19. What does "Missing ;assert .." in my message from KotH mean?

This means you have omitted an ";assert" line in your submission. ";assert"
is used to specify which environments your code will work under or was
designed for. For example, if your warrior was written for the '94 draft
hill then you can put:

;assert CORESIZE==8000

in your code, meaning that an error will occur if you attempt you compile
the code for a different core size. If you don't want to use the features of
";assert" and you want to get rid of the annoying warning just put:

;assert 1

in your code, which means it will compile unconditionally.

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20. How should I format my code?

The way you format your code is really your own choice in the end. If you
are new to the game then use the style you feel most comfortable with.
However, using a common format helps others to understand your code quicker.
Most players tend to use the following conventions when writing code:

   * use lower case for location names and opcode names
   * don't add opcode modifiers if you don't need to, eg. add.ab #1, #2 is
     the same as add #1, #2
   * use whitespace after every comma
   * use tabs to align the opcodes, the instruction field(s) and any
     comments
   * do not use $ (direct addressing mode) or : (suffix of some labels)

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21. Are there any other Core War related resources I should know about?

Using genetic algorithms to generate warriors has been attempted by a number
of people. There are a number of resources available for people who are
interested in doing some experimentation:

   * There is a Core War genetic algorithms mailing list at
     corewar-ga-request@sunsite.auc.dk. The FTP site for this list is at
     ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/local/corewar/. The administrator is Martin
     Pedersen (martin.pedersen@person.dk).
   * Jason's Core War project page
     (http://www.avalon.net/~jboer/projects/corewar/corewar.html) contains a
     C program which can evolve warriors, along with some previously
     generated warriors.
   * Core Wars Genetics: The Evolution of Predation by John Perry can be
     found at http://www.koth.org/evolving_warriors.html.
   * The most recent paper on Core War evolution is by Ryan Coleman and can
     be found at
     http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Launchpad/6898/paper.html.

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22. What does (expression or term of your choice) mean?

Here is a selected glossary of terms. If you have a definition and/or term
you wish to see here, please send it to me.

(References to an X-like program mean that the term X is derived from the
specific program X and has become a generic term).

Binary launch
     One of several means to start an imp-spiral running. The fastest launch
     technique, but requires the most code. See also JMP/ADD Launch and
     Vector Launch.

         impsize   equ 2667
         example   spl 4               ; extend by adding spl 8, spl 16, etc.
                   spl 2
                   jmp imp+(0*impsize) ; jmp's execute in order
                   jmp imp+(1*impsize)
                   spl 2
                   jmp imp+(2*impsize)
                   jmp imp+(3*impsize)
         imp       mov 0, impsize      ; in '94 use -> mov.i #0, impsize

Bootstrapping
     Strategy of copying the active portion of the program away from the
     initial location, leaving a decoy behind and making the relocated
     program as small as possible.

B-Scanners
     Scanners which only recognize non-zero B-fields.

         example   add #10, scan
         scan      jmz example, 10

c
     Measure of speed, equal to one location per cycle. Speed of light.

CMP-Scanner
     A Scanner which uses a CMP instruction to look for opponents.

         example   add step, scan
         scan      cmp 10, 30
                   jmp attack
                   jmp example
         step      dat #20, #20

Colour
     Property of bombs making them visible to scanners, causing them to
     attack useless locations, thus slowing them down.

         example   dat #100

Core-Clear
     Code that sequentially overwrites core with DAT instructions; usually
     the last part of a program.

Decoys
     Bogus or unused instructions meant to slow down scanners. Typically,
     DATs with non-zero B-fields.

Decrement Resistant
     Property of warriors making them functional (or at least partially
     functional) when overrun by a DJN-stream.

DJN-Stream (also DJN-Train)
     Using a DJN command to rapidly decrement core locations.

         example   ...
                   ...
                   djn example, <4000

Dwarf
     The prototypical small bomber.

Gate-busting (also gate-crashing)
     technique to "interweave" a decrement-resistant imp-spiral (e.g. MOV 0,
     2668) with a standard one to overrun imp-gates.

Hybrids
     warriors that combine two or more of the basic strategies, either in
     sequence (e.g. stone->paper) or in parallel (e.g. imp/stone).

Imp
     Program which only uses the MOV instruction.

         example   mov 0, 1

     or

         example   mov 0, 2
                   mov 0, 2

Imp-Gate
     A location in core which is bombed or decremented continuously so that
     an Imp can not pass. Also used to describe the program-code which
     maintains the gate.

         example   ...
                   ...
                   spl 0, <example
                   dat <example, #0

Imp-Ring
     A minimal Imp-Spiral.

         D         EQU (CORESIZE+1)/3
         a         mov 0, D   ; copy self to b
         b         mov 0, D   ; copy self to c
         c         mov 0, D   ; copy self to a+1

Imp-Spiral
     An Imp-like program with two or more processes supporting each other. A
     three-point spiral, with six processes running in this sequence:

         D         EQU (CORESIZE+1)/3
         a         mov 0, D   ; copy self to b
         b         mov 0, D   ; copy self to c
         c         mov 0, D   ; copy self to a+1
         a+1       mov 0, D   ; copy self to b+1
         b+1       mov 0, D   ; copy self to c+1
         c+1       mov 0, D   ; copy self to a+2

Incendiary Bomb
     A type of Stun bomb which creates a SPL 0 carpet.

         example   spl 0, 8
                   mov -1, <-1

JMP/ADD Launch
     one of several means to start an imp-spiral running. The slowest launch
     technique, but requires the least code. See also Binary Launch and
     Vector Launch.

         IMPSIZE   EQU 2667
         example   spl 1               ; extend by adding more spl 1's
                   spl 1
                   spl 2
                   jmp @0, imp
                   add #IMPSIZE, -1    ; bump address by impsize after each jmp
                   dat #0, #0          ; excess processes must die!
         imp       mov 0, IMPSIZE      ; in '94 use -> mov.i #0,IMPSIZE

Mirror
     see reflection.

On-axis/off-axis
     On-axis scanners compare two locations M/2 apart, where M is the memory
     size. Off-axis scanners use some other separation.

Optimal Constants
     (also optima-type constants) Bomb or scan increments chosen to cover
     core most effectively, i.e. leaving gaps of uniform size. Programs to
     calculate optimal constants and lists of optimal numbers are available
     at www.koth.org.

Paper
     A Paper-like program is one which replicates itself many times. Part of
     the Scissors (beats) Paper (beats) Stone (beats Scissors) analogy.

P-Warrior
     A warrior which uses the results of previous round(s) in order to
     determine which strategy it will use.

Pit-Trapper
     (also Slaver, Vampire). A program which enslaves another. Usually
     accomplished by bombing with JMPs to a SPL 0 pit with an optional
     core-clear routine.

Q^2 Scan
     A modern version of the Quick Scan where anything found is attacked
     almost immediately.

Quick Scan
     2c scan of a set group of core locations with bombing if anything is
     found. Both of the following codes snips scan 16 locations and check
     for a find. If anything is found, it is attacked, otherwise 16 more
     locations are scanned.

     Example:

          start
          s1 for 8    ;'88 scan
                 cmp  start+100*s1, start+100*s1+4000 ;check two locations
                 mov  #start+100*s1-found, found      ;they differ so set pointer
          rof
                 jmn  attack,   found    ;if we have something, get it
          s2 for 8
                 cmp  start+100*(s2+6), start+100*(s2+6)+4000
                 mov  #start+100*(s2+6)-found, found
          rof
          found  jmz  moveme,  #0        ;skip attack if qscan found nothing
          attack cmp  @found,  start-1   ;does found points to empty space?
                 add  #4000,   found     ;no, so point to correct location
                 mov  start-1, @found    ;move a bomb
          moveme jmp  0,       0

     In ICWS'94, the quick scan code is more compact because of the SNE
     opcode:

          start       ;'94 scan
          s1 for 4
                 sne  start+400*s1, start+400*s1+100     ;check two locations
                 seq  start+400*s1+200, start+400*s1+300 ;check two locations
                 mov  #start+400*s1-found, found       ;they differ so set pointer
          rof
                 jmn  which,   found     ;if we have something, get it
          s2 for 4
                 sne  start+400*(s2+4), start+400*(s2+4)+100
                 seq  start+400*(s2+4)+200, start+400*(s2+4)+300
                 mov  #start+400*(s2+4)-found-100, found
          rof
          found  jmz  moveme,  #0        ;skip attack if qscan found nothing
                 add  #100,    -1        ;increment pointer till we get the
          which  jmn  -1,      @found    ;right place
                 mov  start-1, @found    ;move a bomb
          moveme jmp  0,       0

Reflection
     Copy of a program or program part, positioned to make the active
     program invisible to a CMP-scanner.

Replicator
     Generic for Paper. A program which makes many copies of itself, each
     copy also making copies.

Self-Splitting
     Strategy of amplifying the number of processes executing a piece of
     code.

         example    spl 0
         loop       add #10, example
                    mov example, @example
                    jmp loop

Scanner
     A program which searches through core for an opponent rather than
     bombing blindly.

Scissors
     A program designed to beat replicators, usually a (B-field scanning)
     vampire. Part of the Paper-Scissors-Stone analogy.

Self-Repair
     Ability of a program to fix it's own code after attack.

Silk
     A replicator which splits off a process to each new copy before
     actually copying the code. This allows it to replicate extremely
     quickly. This technique is only possible under the '94 draft, because
     it requires post-increment indirect addressing. Example:

                 spl   1
                 mov   -1, 0
                 spl   1                ;generate 6 consecutive processes
         silk    spl   3620,   #0       ;split to new copy
                 mov   >-1, }-1      ;copy self to new location
                 mov   bomb,   >2000 ;linear bombing
                 mov   bomb,   }2042    ;A-indirect bombing for anti-vamp
                 jmp   silk,   {silk    ;reset source pointer, make new copy
         bomb    dat   >2667,  >5334  ;anti-imp bomb

Slaver
     see Pit-Trapper.

Stealth
     Property of programs, or program parts, which are invisible to
     scanners, accomplished by using zero B-fields and reflections.

Stone
     A Stone-like program designed to be a small bomber. Part of the
     Paper-Scissors-Stone analogy.

Stun
     A type of bomb which makes the opponent multiply useless processes,
     thus slowing it down. Example is referred to as a SPL-JMP bomb.

         example    spl   0
                    jmp   -1

Two-Pass Core-Clear (also SPL/DAT Core-Clear)
     core clear that fills core first with SPL instructions, then with DATs.
     This is very effective in killing paper and certain imp-spiral
     variations.

Vampire
     see Pit-Trapper.

Vector Launch
     one of several means to start an imp-spiral running. As fast as Binary
     Launch, but requiring much less code. See also JMP/ADD Launch and
     Binary Launch. This example is one form of a Vector Launch:

         sz      EQU   2667

                 spl   1
                 spl   1
                 jmp   @vt, }0
         vt      dat   #0, imp+0*sz ; start of vector table
                 dat   #0, imp+1*sz
                 dat   #0, imp+2*sz
                 dat   #0, imp+3*sz ; end of vector table
         imp     mov.i #0, sz

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23. Other questions?

Just ask in the rec.games.corewar newsgroup or contact me. If you are shy,
check out the Core War archives first to see if your question has been
answered before.

[ToC]
  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Credits

Additions, corrections, etc. to this document are solicited. Thanks in
particular to the following people who have contributed major portions of
this document:

   * Mark Durham (wrote the original version of the FAQ)
   * Paul Kline
   * Randy Graham
   * Stefan Strack (maintained a recent version of the FAQ)

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Copyright � 1999 Anton Marsden.

Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted in any
medium, provided this notice is preserved.
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From: fizmo_master@yahoo.com
Subject: 94nop warrior: Speeed
Date: 20 Feb 2005 09:43:16 -0800
Message-ID: <1108921396.475185.156120@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Hi all,

below is a new type of blur-scanner. Following the path
of Pihlaja's Blurstone I've added Metcalf's zooom-trick.
As in the case of Ikarus II I've added a Q^4.5 scanner.


;redcode-94nop
;name Speeed
;author Christian Schmidt
;strategy scanner/stone-clone with zooom-trick
;strategy blurstone meets zooom... ;-)
;assert 1

STEP  equ     1099
sStrt equ     3292
gate  equ     (cptr-2)

pBoot   equ    4810

zero    equ     qbomb

qtab3   equ     qbomb
qbomb   dat     >qoff           , >qc2
        dat     0               , 0

bPtr    dat     bdat+2           , <qb1
qtab2   dat     bdat+pBoot,    <qb2
pGo     spl     1               , <qb3

    for 6
        mov.i   {bPtr,       {qtab2
    rof
        djn     sptr+pBoot-1,   #1
        mov.i   1,              -1

for     8
        dat     0               , 0
rof

        dat    zero-1           , qa1
qtab1   dat    zero-1           , qa2

cptr  mov     }scan,      >1064
      mov     step,       >cptr
sp    sub     step,       @scan
sptr  mov     }sStrt,     sStrt+8
scan  jmz.f   sp,         {sptr
      mov.ab  sptr,       cptr
      jmn.a   {scan,      sptr
step  spl     #-STEP-1,   -STEP
      mov     bdat,       >gate
      djn.f   -1,         >gate
bdat  dat     >5335,      bdat+3-gate

for     31
        dat     0               , 0
rof

qc2     equ ((1+(qtab3-qptr)*qy)%CORESIZE)
qb1     equ ((1+(qtab2-1-qptr)*qy)%CORESIZE)
qb2     equ ((1+(qtab2-qptr)*qy)%CORESIZE)
qb3     equ ((1+(qtab2+1-qptr)*qy)%CORESIZE)
qa1     equ ((1+(qtab1-1-qptr)*qy)%CORESIZE)
qa2     equ ((1+(qtab1-qptr)*qy)%CORESIZE)
qz      equ 2108
qy      equ 243         ;qy*(qz-1)=1

;q0 mutation
qgo sne qptr+qz*qc2     , qptr+qz*qc2+qb2
 seq <qtab3          , qptr+qz*(qc2-1)+qb2
 jmp q0              , }q0
 sne qptr+qz*qa2     , qptr+qz*qa2+qb2
 seq <qtab1          , qptr+qz*(qa2-1)+qb2
 jmp q0              , {q0
 sne qptr+qz*qa1     , qptr+qz*qa1+qb2
 seq <(qtab1-1)      , qptr+qz*(qa1-1)+qb2
 djn.a q0              , {q0
                                        ;q1 mutation
 sne qptr+qz*qb3     , qptr+qz*qb3+qb3
 seq <(qtab2+1)      , qptr+qz*(qb3-1)+(qb3-1)
 jmp q0              , }q1
 sne qptr+qz*qb1     , qptr+qz*qb1+qb1
 seq <(qtab2-1)      , qptr+qz*(qb1-1)+(qb1-1)
 jmp q0              , {q1

 sne qptr+qz*qb2     , qptr+qz*qb2+qb2
 seq <qtab2          , qptr+qz*(qb2-1)+(qb2-1)
 jmp q0
                                        ;qz mutation
 seq >qptr           , qptr+qz+(qb2-1)
 jmp q2              , <qptr
                                        ;q0 mutation
 seq qptr+(qz+1)*(qc2-1),qptr+(qz+1)*(qc2-1)+(qb2-1)
 jmp q0              , }q0
 seq qptr+(qz+1)*(qa2-1),qptr+(qz+1)*(qa2-1)+(qb2-1)
 jmp q0              , {q0
 seq qptr+(qz+1)*(qa1-1),qptr+(qz+1)*(qa1-1)+(qb2-1)
 djn.a q0              , {q0
 jmz.f pGo, qptr+(qz+1)*(qb2-1)+(qb2-1)

qoff    equ     -86
qstep   equ     -7
qtime   equ     19

q0      mul.b   *2              , qptr
q2      sne     {qtab1          , @qptr
q1      add.b   qtab2           , qptr
        mov     qtab3           , @qptr
qptr    mov     qbomb           , }qz
        sub     #qstep          , qptr
        djn     -3              , #qtime
        djn.f   pGo             , 0

end qgo



From: angelonmyshoulder61@yahoo.com
Subject: Just say NO to Bin Ladin!!!!
Date: 20 Feb 2005 17:22:07 -0800
Message-ID: <1108948927.610222.12630@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Hi all I am helping a friend promote a web site. You see a childhood
friend of hers lost her husband at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11,
2001. She has run into some hard times and my freind wants to help her.
So she came up with the idea to market Just say NO to Bin Ladin
dartboards and punching bag covers. Not only is she going to donate
part of the proceeds to her freind but an additional part of the
proceeds will go to the Firemans Fund. If you could take the time to
check out the web site it would sure be appreciated! The web site addy
is: 

http://www.angelonmyshoulder.4t.com 

Thanks so much everyone!!



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status -  94 No Pspace 02/21/05
Date: 21 Feb 2005 10:23:48 -0500
Message-ID: <200502210509.j1L590Zg006613@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/21/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG 94 No Pspace CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sat Feb 19 22:13:22 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  36/ 27/ 37                Hullabaloo         Roy van Rijn     146     160
 2  36/ 28/ 36                    Borgir    Christian Schmidt     144     195
 3  34/ 27/ 40             The Humanizer            bvowk/fiz     141      48
 4  26/ 16/ 58                 Maelstrom         Roy van Rijn     137     304
 5  41/ 45/ 14                     Arrow    Christian Schmidt     137     363
 6  31/ 26/ 43                Gargantuan         Roy van Rijn     137     181
 7  26/ 16/ 58                    S.D.N.    Christian Schmidt     136      85
 8  30/ 24/ 46                     New-T         Roy van Rijn     136      94
 9  38/ 41/ 21        HazyLazy Test C 30 Steve Gunnell / Chri     134       7
10  38/ 41/ 21                 Beat this          Sascha Zapf     134       9
11  26/ 18/ 55              Black Knight    Christian Schmidt     134     185
12  38/ 44/ 18       Origin of Storms II      Metcalf/Schmidt     131      37
13  23/ 16/ 62            Chainlock v02a            G.Labarga     130      43
14  23/ 17/ 60               The Utterer    Christian Schmidt     129      20
15  38/ 49/ 12         Kenshin D Test 30        Steve Gunnell     128       5
16  26/ 25/ 48             stealthbomber       Meckel/Schmidt     127       1
17  24/ 22/ 54               Quickbronze            G.Labarga     127       2
18  35/ 44/ 20          thoughts of fire         John Metcalf     126      60
19  34/ 43/ 23                    NSos15        Nenad Tomasev     125       6
20  38/ 54/  8                Carnassial    Christian Schmidt     122       3

21  17/ 37/ 46                Blitz A 29        Steve Gunnell      97       0



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - MultiWarrior 94 02/21/05
Date: 21 Feb 2005 10:23:57 -0500
Message-ID: <200502210503.j1L530oD006509@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/21/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Multiwarrior 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Thu Feb 17 12:14:38 EST 2005
 
 #                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1                  CLP-shot            G.Labarga      47       2
 2                 SSD-clear                  Neo      37      37
 3                 stray cat         John Metcalf      33      13
 4               eyes closed         John Metcalf      30       7
 5 kingdom of the grasshoppe     simon wainwright      27      12
 6                Hiperblast            G.Labarga      23      22
 7 sauron's eye v1.01 (mini              el kauka      18      36
 8          a scanner darkly             el kauka      16      31
 9              my first clp             el kauka      16       1
10       Make it easy (test)            G.Labarga      15       5

11    beneath the thorn bush         John Metcalf      13       6



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - ICWS Experimental 94 02/21/05
Date: 21 Feb 2005 10:23:53 -0500
Message-ID: <200502210506.j1L560Lx006552@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/21/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG ICWS Experimental 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Thu Feb 10 13:32:20 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  44/ 36/ 20             Fatamorgana X           Zul Nadzri     153       3
 2  41/ 37/ 22             The X Machine           Zul Nadzri     145      27
 3  31/ 20/ 50                xd100 test        David Houston     141      13
 4  40/ 40/ 20              Eliminator X           Zul Nadzri     141      28
 5  42/ 45/ 13           Fire and Ice II          David Moore     140     116
 6  40/ 40/ 21               Black Moods          Ian Oversby     140     212
 7  23/  9/ 68              Evol Cap 4 X       John Wilkinson     138     285
 8  24/ 13/ 63                    Denial          David Moore     136     157
 9  31/ 27/ 42                    KAT v5          Dave Hillis     136     148
10  38/ 40/ 22                      Ogre    Christian Schmidt     135     164
11  25/ 17/ 57                       Kin         John Metcalf     134     124
12  28/ 24/ 48                 Glenstorm         John Metcalf     133      78
13  37/ 41/ 23        Simply Intelligent           Zul Nadzri     133       9
14  20/  7/ 73             Evolve X v4.0       John Wilkinson     133     233
15  34/ 38/ 28              Trefoil F 13        Steve Gunnell     131      99
16  29/ 28/ 42                  Olivia X             Ben Ford     131      97
17  35/ 39/ 26     Controlled Aggression          Ian Oversby     130     216
18  37/ 44/ 19        Giant Hazy Test 13        Steve Gunnell     130      43
19  28/ 28/ 44               Venom v0.2b    Christian Schmidt     129     238
20  40/ 53/  7   something from darkwood         John Metcalf     126       1

21  24/ 58/ 18    beneath the thorn bush         John Metcalf      90       0



From: achillu@tin.it (LAchi)
Subject: French Kiss (94)
Date: 21 Feb 2005 11:39:42 -0800
Message-ID: <1eeccf2e.0502211139.695bed65@posting.google.com>

Hello.

At the age of 60 my warrior French Kiss (94 version) has been pushed
off the Beginners' Hill at SAL. It entered 8th and its best
performance was 7th on the 94b-hill. The previous version of the same
warrior had a fast peek in the Multiwarrior 94m-hill and never entered
the 94nop-hill at KOTH; this older version was killed at 44 on the
Beginners' Hill at SAL, so the "total" age of my warrior should be
computed as 104.

The idea behind the warrior was to build a scanner out of the
Milkshake project; the oneshot engine of Milkshake has been modified
in order to get a scanner. Anyway, the result however optimized never
achieved the results of the Milkshake family.

With one exception: I rewrote the warrior using 88 instruction set and
the result had a fast peek in the standard (88) hill at KOTH. So I
re-optimized the constants for the ICWS hill, and the resulting
warrior French Kiss 88T entered 2nd and is still on the icws-hill at
KOTH. The main difference between French Kiss 88 and French Kiss 88T
is that the latter has a bigger decoy (-l 300 allows a bigger decoy);
the same warrior (i.e. written in 88 instruction set) entered 10th and
is still on the Tourney 94t-hill at SAL. I never tried to get a 94t
version of my warrior.

The Milkshake engine in French Kiss has been shrinked to its minimum
size, in order to have a faster scanning:

;assume that b-fields are 0 and compare
dest
	seq.i  <FIRST+STEP+WIDTH, <FIRST+STEP
;synchronize if anything changed
	mov.b   dest,   ptr

as I pointed out in a previous message, the "seq.i <, <" instruction
not only scans the locations, but also builds a transparent decoy in
just 1 step.

OPEN ISSUES FOR VOLUNTEERS: you can now try to write a 94T version for
94t-hill at SAL and a X version for 94x-hill at KOTH; I tried myself
to enter the X hill but never succeeded. Of course, the name of the
94x-hill project should be "French X" ;)

As you see, there is no "Zooom trick" in my warrior; I never managed
to get one into, so there is a useless random bombing in the first
steps.

Best regards to everybody.
LAchi.

Here is the code:

;redcode-94b
;name French Kiss
;author LAchi
;kill French Kiss
;strategy Version 1:
;strategy Scanner with Milkshake trick
;strategy Version 1.1:
;strategy Added decoy and booted away (like the 88 version)
;strategy WARNING: OPTIMAXED (114.33)
;assert CORESIZE == 8000

STEP equ 16*433
FIRST equ (STEP-5)
WIDTH equ 8
COUNT equ 498

boot equ go+10+16*162

;[WARRIOR]
ptr
	spl    #0,     #FIRST
;distance new scan location
restart
	sub.f   inc,   @clear
;bomb old location
stone
	mov.i   bomb,  >ptr
;assume that b-fields are 0 and compare
dest
	seq.i  <FIRST+STEP+WIDTH, <FIRST+STEP
;synchronize if anything changed
	mov.b   dest,   ptr
;go back
	djn.b   restart, #COUNT
	jmp    <restart
kill
	dat    <2667,   inc-dest+1
bomb
	spl    #-99,    inc-ptr+1
clear
	mov    @b,     >dest
	mov.i  @b,     >dest
b
	djn.f   clear, {bomb
inc
	dat     -STEP, <-STEP

;[BOOTSTRAP]
go
	mov inc, boot+12
a for 12
	mov ptr+12-a,<go
rof
	jmp boot+2

;[DECOY]
;transparent decoy follows
dd for 3
	dat <go*47*((dd+4)%8),<1+(((dd+5)%8)==0)
rof

;WHOA it took me long to guess which one goes here
	dat     -STEP, <-STEP

;transparent decoy - II part
dd for MAXLENGTH-CURLINE
	dat <go*47*((dd)%8),<1+(((dd+1)%8)==0)
rof

	end go


From: "Apache" <apacheserver2000@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: off-topic: Avida (artifical life) article
Message-ID: <m7wSd.233727$PH1.68775@amsnews05.chello.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:43:46 GMT

You're welcome!


"Lukasz Adamowski" <corewars@wp.pl> wrote in message 
news:4214eedfc0c4f@wp.pl...
> Dnia 15-02-2005 o godz. 18:31 Apache napisal(a):
>> http://www.carlzimmer.com/articles/2005/articles_2005_Avida.html
>
> I don't know who sent this article, but I liked it very much. Thanks!
> Lukasz Adamowski
>
> -= "War is a problem, never a solution" =-
> -= "Wojna jest problemem, a nie rozwiazaniem" =-
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Kto rozpropagowa� kaw� w Europie? Spotkanie w "Po�egnaniu z Afryk�"
> http://klik.wp.pl/?adr=www.ksiazki.wp.pl%2Fwiadomosci%2Fwiadomosc.html%3Fid%3D29499&sid=320
>
> 




From: high_court_2@yahoo.com (HIGH COURT)
Subject: The Beatles caused the disintegration of mankind
Date: 23 Feb 2005 17:53:24 -0800
Message-ID: <efa55e34.0502231753.4af3f44@posting.google.com>

HIGH COURT
(The Five Judges)
(Judge T., Judge B., Judge S., Judge M. and Judge K.)


1st VERDICT

"The Beatles caused the disintegration of mankind"
 

The Rock revolution happened in the Sixties (6, number of the Beast).
It came from Liverpool, which was the port base to the Titanic,
destroyed by God because of the arrogant insult of Captain Smith (also
from Liverpool): "Not even God can sink my ship" (not only the
Captain, but also the rest of the crew and even the orchestra playing
at the Titanic were from Liverpool). The Rock revolution came from the
nation that allows a church to be changed to a pub or to a dance hall
or to a recording studio full of drug addicts, homosexuals and
lunatics (as that of George Martin, ally of the Beatles).
It came from the nation whose king Henry VIII adulterated the Bible so
that divorce could be allowed, and in this way be able to give loose
rein to the many divorces from his wives and subsequent murdering of
the same ones, and to whom God provided a wife with six fingers as
abomination (Anne Boleyn)...once again 6, number of the Beast....
It is interesting to observe that this nation is nicknamed "the
Devil's Island" (as they themselves call it). As the epithet of the
government of Satan on that nation, the center of London, the so
well-known Piccadilly Circus, takes it's name from an old brothel (the
"Piccadilla House" which means "The House of Sin"), disappeared
nowadays.

Antichrist John Lennon, one of the Devil's main puppets to destroy
family, social and moral values and to begin the disintegration of
mankind, did hit Stuart Sutcliffe (the first bass player of the
Beatles) repeatedly in the head with a club in Hamburg. Some months
later Sutcliffe died from brain haemorrhage because of John Lennon's
bruises. John Lennon entered stardom being a murderer.
The same demons that made Captain Smith say "Not even God can sink my
ship" spoke from antichrist John Lennon (from Liverpool, base port to
the Titanic) saying: "Christianity is on the go. It will vanish and
shrink. We are more popular than Jesus and Pope".... That was the day
that GOD'S CURSE fell upon the Beatles and upon the world of Rock.
One week after that statement, ONLY ONE WEEK LATER, Brian Epstein,
forger of the Beatle farce, died from an overdose. From then on, the
Beatles began to get involved in false religions and beliefs and
started to preach them to the world.
John Lennon's divorce followed, as well as his entering the world of
black magic, as deeply as to buy the apartment where the "Rosemary's
baby" had been filmed, previous property of Roman Polansky, and in
that same apartment John Lennon had a room upholstered with black silk
where he used to do his black magic operations.
Came the disintegration of the Beatles' minds with LSD which has
caused, among others, schizophrenic lyrics such as "I am the Walrus"
and incoherent schizophrenic musical expositions such as "Revolution
number 9".
At the same time, the devil acted through his other main puppets with
"Sympathy for the devil", that was when the pact of the Rolling Stones
with Satan took the life of the founder of the group, guitarist Brian
Jones (who refused to be a puppet of the devil), murdered by people
sent by Mick Jagger, another assassin, who after wanted the world to
believe that such a brilliant swimmer as Brian drowned in his own
pool�.
Antichrist John Lennon followed the Devil's strategy writing lyrics
such as "God is a concept by which we measure our pain...I don't
believe in Jesus, etc., etc.," (God) and "and no religions too..."
(Imagine).
Antichrist John Lennon wanted to compete with Jesus Christ, and so he
grew a beard and started to make a bogus role of Christ together with
Yoko Ono at the Amsterdam Hilton hotel proclaiming "Peace", being then
when he was visited by the Canadian journalist who ridiculized and
admonished him wanting to know about what Lennon meant when he wrote
in the lyrics of  "The ballad of John and Yoko":  "the way things are
going, they're going to crucify me...",
The CURSE OF GOD upon John Lennon carried on with all type of miseries
and distresses which made Lennon give the interview to the "Rolling
Stone" magazine (today condensed in the "Lennon remembers" book) where
he speaks about how bad thing were going for him blaming "whatever is
up there" for it (referring to God).
The CURSE OF GOD carried on until he was shot dead. It is interesting
to notice that he was shot seven times, being seven, as well as three,
the holy numbers in Holy Cabala tradition....

After George Harrison, said arrogantly in a video filmed at his studio
in Henley on Thames: "I want to talk about the divinity of man", he
was given throat cancer by GOD because of those words, which made
metastasis and carried on to final death..
To Paul McCartney whose company's logo was a person toying with the
planets as if he was a god or something, and who was being very much
deluded in his ego trip by the fact that he was made "Sir" (when in
England even the road sweeper is made Sir, as long as he produces
money for the nation), GOD provided cancer to the wife.
The advertising farce of how much he loved Linda (woman whose quality
he did not deserve), was exposed when it was known that Paul had an
affair with Heather Mills, Linda's intimate friend, with whom
McCartney went on a trip to New York and to whom he bought things and
presents, while he was still mourning for his "dear Linda".
At the same time McCartney was going out with Heather Mills, he used
Linda's death for promotional ends, due to his waning popularity. Paul
was going out with Heather, but in front of the audience he played the
faithful husband's masquerade pretending to suffer for Linda, for the
afore mentioned promotional ends.
Paul admitted that he made Linda suffer a lot, but he didn't say that
it was because he felt insecure as a man due to his womanish face and
effeminate manners and also because with his age his sexual power was
not the same, even though it has never been much. The early days were
the days of competition between Paul and his wife and John and his
wife and he knew he had to compete with ugly John for the leadership
of the band in front of their wives and having Yoko Ono made him aware
of his lack of virility and repressed homosexuality, he grew the beard
that we see in the "Let it Be" film and started to show pictures of
naked women on the same film, doing every effort he could to be seen
as a man....
It is easy to note the uneasiness of McCartney when he sings: "I've
got a feeling, a feeling I can't hide..." in front of Yoko in the
film. (He already had the traumas that his previous girlfriend Jane
Asher had caused him when she made him conscious of his little
manliness and effeminate manners).
Paul has a big inferiority complex as a man, due to his effeminate
face, body and personality as well as repressed homosexuality, and
Jane and Linda made him feel the superiority of virile men. This is
something that his ego trip of lucky bad musician cannot face.... He
is very conscious that money and fame cannot buy virility and
manliness.

Besides being a murderer, John Lennon had sexual intercourse with
homosexual Brian Epstein to get him interested in going to see the
band at the Cavern, trauma from which he never recovered. He went to
different psychiatrists because of the aftermath of it, one of them
being the so well known Dr. Robert (he is a new and better man, he
helps you to understand). Because of the trauma that his homosexual
relation with Brian Epstein had left him, he made lyrics such as: "You
can wear a collar and a tie, one thing you can't hide is when you're
crippled inside" and gave declarations to the "Rolling Stone" magazine
saying that sometimes he wore Texan boots to feel more secure as a
man. ("Lennon remembers" book).

The Beatles are very well known by people close to them because of
their arrogance and racism. One of the manifestations of their racism
is the rejection towards Japanese Yoko Ono. That rejection got to the
point that George Harrison kicked Yoko Ono in the Apple studios during
the filming of Let it Be.
When John asked George while they were having lunch about how things
were going for Paul after his separation from the Beatles and George
replied that he was number one in the Swedish hit parade, John said in
a despective manner: "ah!!.. in Sweden..", as if Sweden was an
inferior place or something alike.
In the Beatles' song "Get Back" they advise black Joe to "get back to
where you once belonged", as if England was not a place for black
people.
Sometimes back, Paul told George in the Apple offices that the new
generations are a bundle of idiots and useless people, but in any way
they would have also been slaves of the Beatles.
The Jewish marriage living to the right of George's house said that he
is an arrogant person who does never return a greeting. The newly
married couple living on the corner in front of the entrance of
George's house (Friar Park) refers to him as an overbearing person to
stay away from. The receptionist of  "Hand made" the former film
making company of George Harrison said: "we don't have any relation
with that man anymore and we don't want to know anything about him".
It is interesting to note that this company was made bankrupt by the
British cinema industry due to the despotism and pedantry of George
Harrison, who believed that the cinema industry would have worshiped
him.
Their chauvinisms got to the point that even they themselves hated
each other. Paul McCartney said that George Harrison is a nothing.
George Harrison said that he is tired of listening to people talk
about John Lennon.
George Harrison said in a video that "Oasis is a very untalented band
and they shouldn't be playing at all", all of it being the truth, but
the Beatles is also a band of very poor musicians, if musicians at
all, who could only play a couple of elementary guitar chords and who
are as untalented as Oasis. The Beatles of the times of the "Cavern"
sounded exactly as poorly as Oasis and the little musical quality in
the songs of the Beatles is due to George Martin. Without George
Martin the Beatles would have been just another untalented band as
Oasis.... George Martin is the musician among the non-musicians known
as Beatles�

Paul McCartney said recently that he believes in using magic, and he
does lots of charity, thinking that in this way he will compensate for
the CURSE OF GOD that is upon him and that took his wife's life
because of his Satanism and involvement in black magic. He thinks he
will deceive people in this way, so that the real McCartney will not
be perceived, as does the old Devil we all know, attempting to
disguise as good in front of people, deceiving mankind once again, as
so many other thousands of times through the centuries....

After the Devil began his devastating job from the ghostly "Devil's
Island" through his nine main puppets (Beatles-Rolling Stones), he
possessed an endless amount of other schizophrenic bad musician in the
afore mentioned Island and weakening their conscience with drugs, he
made them proclaimers of homosexuality, aversion to religion,
destruction of family values, dissipation, mental illness, antisocial
tendencies, etc., etc.,
The fact that bad apprentice musicians such as the Beatles and the
Rolling Stones achieved such a giant fame that not even the real
quality musicians could achieve, was because the forces of Satan were
behind everything, supporting the process.

This mentally ill humanity, destroyed families, twisted moral values,
manifest or repressed homosexuality in human beings, anti natural
feminism rebellion, drug addiction, corrupt social outlines, mad
youths without direction, non respect to hierarchies, convulsed
nations, misanthropy, misogyny, paedophilia, irrational and feeble
lasciviousness and all other type of existent aberrations, are due to
the vast manoeuvre that Satan executed through his main marionettes
the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, from the Devil's Island.
If you wonder why there is misery and curse in your house, it is
because you own some L.P, CD or another article related to the CURSED
BY GOD Beatles and Rolling Stones. We recommend you to take that curse
out of your house throwing away everything related to the Devil's main
nine puppets....

You have been warned... 

The HIGH COURT.
(The Five Judges) 

(All rights reserved)

In the interest of mankind, you should send our verdicts to everyone
you know. Alert souls. It's up to you.
Also, you should repeatedly post and re-post our verdicts in any
network you know, including this. It is your contribution to mankind.
Once again, it is entirely up to you.
You also have our permission to publish our verdicts wherever you
want.

*********************************************************************************
*********************************************************************************
 

HIGH COURT
(The Five Judges)
(Judge T., Judge B., Judge S., Judge M. and Judge K.)

Appendix to 1st VERDICT

"A music nothing called the Beatles"


There is much more that can be considered and that can be revealed
about the worst musicians on Earth, if musicians at all, namely: The
Beatles.
Such bad musicians that George Martin had to pay a session drummer to
record "Love me do", because Ringo was unable to play the elementary
drumming of the song. Such an elementary drumming that even a beginner
could play, but not Ringo�.
Such bad musicians that they had to ask another two-finger bad guitar
player called Eric Clapton to do solos on their songs because George
Harrison could not produce reasonable guitar string vibrato�
Such bad musicians, if musicians at all, that at the studio they had
to record their elementary songs over and over again about a thousand
times because every take was full of blunders. In fact, on the
Beatles' "white album" we hear John Lennon screaming "� got blisters
on my fingers!!", due to the many million times he had to repeat the
thing at the studio�.
Such bad musicians that they used the same chord sequence in about 70%
of their songs, (I-VI-V-minor relative and their permutations) meaning
that they only composed one song and repeated it in different rhythms,
Keys and permutations throughout 70% of their repertoire�.
Such bad musicians that at the Cavern, about a couple of years back,
McCartney had to start the elementary "I saw her standing there" four
times because every time he got in he did it out of time. Ironically,
the session musicians he played with that night started the song ok,
but McCartney could not�.

The Beatles were such mediocre composers that they stole other
people's songs and made it their own, sometimes only changing title
and lyrics. Other times they would play other people's songs backwards
and steal the melodies and harmonies thus being produced. They've been
listening to other people's songs played backwards since 1967. Since
then, 40% of their "compositions" have been stolen from
backwards-played songs. This trick was also used by "Oasis". They very
well knew about this fraud of the Beatles�.
George Harrison was taken to court by the "Chiffons" because of
stealing one of their songs and calling it "My sweet lord".
The Beatles stole Trini Lopez's "Bamba" and called it "Twist and
shouts", pretending it was their own.
The Beatles stole one of the "Salvation Army" songs' and called it
"Strawberry fields forever".
The Beatles stole the end of the second part in  "A day in the life"
from "Hush".
John Lennon stole a part of  "Jealous guy" (..I began to lose
control�) from "She's a rainbow".
John Lennon stole the guitar pattern of  "Dear Prudence" from the
guitar pattern of  "Something in the air".
Paul Mc Cartney stole the bass line of  "Susie Q" and used it in
"Taxman" and did it again in "Rain". Stole the bass pattern of "Let's
spend the night together" and used it in "Get Back" and in "I've got a
feeling". Stole the bass line of "My girl" and used it in "Two of us",
and so on, and on, and on, and on�..
They even stole songs from their own songs. John Lennon stole the
chord pattern of "You've got to hide your love away" from "I'm a
loser". Stole the guitar pattern of "Dig a Pony" from the pattern in
"Two of us". Stole "Merry go �round" from "Flying". Stole the
beginning of "Rocky racoon" from the beginning of  "I'm a loser".
George Harrison stole the chords in "Isn't it a pity" from the
beginning of "Eight days a week". Stole the first bit of "Fixing a
hole" from "Michelle". And so on, and on, and on, and on, and many
more ons�

The Beatles were very poor singers, if singers at all. They had no
voice for singing. Their voice was very thin and nasal, with no depth,
no body and with no vibrato. All they could do was shout. In fact,
their lack of voice forced them to shout. The Beatles did not sing,
they shouted. They should have left singing to Tom Jones, Humperdink,
Joan Baez, and so on�The poorest voices in the Beatles were Harrison's
and Lennon's. Harrison did not have voice at all, not for even
shouting. Lennon's voice was so nasal, that he always did the backing
lower voice and when he did not then he shouted. He had a crow's tone.
The Beatles had to always use special microphones to add depth to
their skinny and nasal voice, and after that, they spent hours at the
recording studio embellishing and concealing their nasality with
equalizers and effects, that is HOURS�. the Beatles were not
singers�the Beatles were SHOUTERS�

Being homosexual Brian Epstein the forger of the Beatles project,
Epstein instructed the Beatles to let their hair grow, so as to appeal
to repressed homosexuality in people. Epstein noticed what the
effeminate face of Elvis Presley did on people and the fame he gained
because of it, so he played the same card. The Beatles boom was not
due to their music, but to their appeal to repressed homosexuality (as
well as to having been the first internationally promoted electric
guitar band). The Beatles opened the homosexual Aquarius era which is
ruled by Uranus, the planet of homosexuality�Musically they were so
bad that the A&R of the Decca record firm laughed in the face of Brian
Epstein when he listened to the recordings of the Beatles, and he told
Epstein that they sounded like tin and that he was not interested.
George Martin told Epstein, when he listened to the recordings of the
Beatles: "Mr. Epstein, you better go back with your boys to
Liverpool", because of how bad the musical quality of the group
was.... it was with the idea of the long hair (that would appeal to
repressed homosexuality in people) that Brian Epstein was able to
convince George Martin.....

They were possibly the ugliest faces ever seen on stage. George
Harrison's face looked like Frankenstein, John Lennon's face looked
like a witch. (They really needed long hair to hide their ugly faces)
Paul Mc Cartney had such an effeminate face (as well as a pig's face)
that he always played the Miss Beatle role, with very fragile and
womanish manners (Close friend of homosexual Mick Jagger). (We will
not go into the details of the homosexual night between Paul McCartney
and Mick Jagger at Brian Epstein's house of 13 Chapel St. SW1, the
night that Paul McCartney twisted his ankle on the stairs)   This is
the reason why John Lennon teamed with him to form the band. He knew
he needed an effeminate face as that of Presley in the band and he
knew that because of his ugliness he couldn't have been the one, so he
called Mc Cartney�

The Beatles degraded the standard of music so much that they made
stardom accessible to every music beginner. Thanks to the Beatles we
see non-musicians and bad musicians on stage. Thanks to the Beatles we
have the audience on stage. Thanks to the Beatles anybody is a star,
WHOEVER. Thanks to the Beatles we have sound pollution, known by the
drugged minds as "rock music". Thanks to the Beatles people do not
appreciate the work of quality musicians anymore. Of course the
Beatles promoted drugs, so that because of drugs their elementary
noise would be perceived as "music" through the handicapped state of
appreciation of the idiotic limbo of slowed down mental processes.
Thanks to the Beatles we see idiotic music beginners on the "greatness
delirium" of a paranoid mental frame induced by drugs�Hebephrenic,
Paranoid and Catatonic schizophrenics have become "stars". The stage
has become a mental asylum, thanks to the Beatles�

Thanks to the Beatles and the electric guitar with distortion where
any note you play would just fit because differences are not that
noticeable, we have the audience on stage. You just press any string
on any fret, wherever�it will do�. No one will notice a thing. Any
noise will do�. In tune or out of tune, in the scale or out of it, who
cares�the distorted electric guitar will conceal anything...You don't
need the slightest knowledge of music, just learn a couple of easy
chords and use a couple of fingers in changing strings and that's it.
After that you buy yourself an electric guitar with a distortion
pedal, and you are a star�. Music? �. What's that�Music�WHO CARES?
Since the electric guitar was invented anybody is a
guitarist�WHOEVER�With such sensitive strings that even the wind can
play just by blowing on it, also due to amplification, anybody can
prostitute music�whoever�. you just press the strings with the fingers
of one hand and it sounds�.you can use the other hand to make a phone
call at the same time�.Even the cat can produce sounds on the electric
guitar by walking on the strings�EVEN YOUR CAT COULD BE A STAR!!!!�
You don't need to practice to play an electric guitar�it sounds on
it's own�.

Thanks to the electric guitar, bad or non-guitarists that play with
only two or three fingers such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Peter
Townsend, Keith Richards, John Lennon, George Harrison, Sting, Noel
Gallagher, Paul McCartney, Hank Marvin, Steve Winwood, she Santana
(Maria), David Gilmour, Hilton Valentine, BB King, Chuck Berry, Jimi
Hendrix (he was nothing special as a guitarist, but nobody did ever
produce such amazing sounds on an electric guitar. He was not a
guitarist. He was a sound architect) and so on, and on, and on, have
polluted music, but when you give them an acoustic guitar they can
hardly do much�strum it at the most�
As a matter of fact, with the exception of "Yes" (a "bravissimo"
exception) and "Emerson, Lake and Palmer" (another "bravissimo"
exception), you can throw all the remaining famous "rock bands" into a
dustbin�. THE LOT�sixty or seventy years of noise making bad musicians
or non-musicians into a dustbin�. together with electric guitars,
drugs, "greatness delirium" and all�.

The same applies to synthesizers, samplers and all type of electronic
keyboards with sequencers and any kind of electronic trick that allow
bad or non-keyboard players to pollute the stage�. Just by pressing a
key on these gadgets you hear fat symphonic sounds that resemble the
body of a full orchestra, psychedelic ensembles for the drugged minds
and so on, that sound as if the performer was using all the fingers of
both hands to play it, but when you look at the fingers of the
players, they are only pressing one or two keys, that is, they are
only using one or two fingers on the keyboard, and sometimes the left
hand is not even being used, and when it is used, only another one or
two fingers come into play�..Once again, these gadgets place the
audience on stage and allow UNTALENTED idiots to become "stars"�.

As another aspect of the music degeneration and quality standard
lowering brought about by the Beatles, we see untalented female
"singers" with no voice making it big by showing tits and ass on the
stage, or by using pornographic gestures, or by insinuating sex in one
way or another. If they want to show their tits and asses they should
be on pornographic magazines or videos and leave the stage to talented
female singers such as the Queens Janis Joplin, Joan Baez, Aretha
Franklin, Ella Fitzgerald, Diane Ross, and so on�. Just recently, one
of these idiotic untalented female "singers" was seen on an American
TV show performing side by side with Aretha Franklin, attempting to
copy what the great Aretha was doing�We still wonder how Aretha
permitted it�The only way these untalented female "singers" can get on
top of the stage is by going to bed with the managers or producers�
And now, a list of untalented female "singers": Madonna, Jennifer
Lopez, Shakira, Britney Spears, Ricky Martin, etc., etc.�once again,
the audience on stage�.

And finally let's talk about the "Harmonizer", the gadget that allows
non-singers and crap singers to "sing". Unfortunately for the Beatles,
the thing was not invented at the time they were polluting the stage,
otherwise they would have been taken for singers. You sing out of tune
and the Harmonizer corrects your voice�. Every note you sing that is
out of pitch is taken to perfect pitch by the artefact�. You have the
tone of a parrot�don't worry�with the Harmonizer you will sound like
Caruso. It changes your voice to sound like the voice of any known
voice virtuoso, and you can even choose which singer you want to sound
like!!!�Is that note too high for you�you'll reach it with the
Harmonizer�. it will create from one of your lower notes!!!�. The
gadget is incorporated in some of the "karaoke" devices used by the
audience on stage�. you just BARK into the microphone and you'll sound
as sweet as the nightingale�

All of this thanks to the Beatles and their counterpart the Rolling
Stones (with the exception of extraterrestrial Brian Jones, the real
father of the Sixties), who opened the door for the audience to get on
top of the stage�

You have been informed�.

The HIGH COURT.
(The Five Judges)

(All rights reserved) 


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From: "CH" <cchh1990@Yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: A Small Request
Date: 24 Feb 2005 07:18:06 -0800
Message-ID: <1109258286.423471.248260@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>

To those who participated in the football round of the rft tournament
could you PLEASE tell me what you thought of the CORRECTED version of
my program! Just tell me it wasn=B4t a complete waste of time. :-(



From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Adamowski?= <corewars@wp.pl>
Subject: Odp: A Small Request
Date: 24 Feb 2005 20:04:56 -0500
Message-ID: <421e4f13dae51@wp.pl>

Dnia 24-02-2005 o godz. 16:33 CH napisal:
> To those who participated in the football round of the rft tournament
> could you PLEASE tell me what you thought of the CORRECTED version of
> my program! Just tell me it wasn�t a complete waste of time. :-(

And what the corrected version is? Can you please send it to the newsgroup with a short description. The version on www.corewar.info is a bit enigmatic.
Anyway I think 21th RF Round was weird enough to treat it as a pure fun, not a real competition. And when you are having fun, it can't be waste of time, right? ;]
Lukasz Adamowski

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From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Adamowski?= <corewars@wp.pl>
Subject: CH's RF 21 entry
Date: 24 Feb 2005 20:04:51 -0500
Message-ID: <421e537db4e94@wp.pl>

I've just found that corrected warrior in my mail archive. Looks pretty advanced, if you are a beginner I think you may be very dangerous opponent in next rounds, CH. I don't have time to check how does your warrior acts in real fight... I mean football match, but if it only does the way you wanted it to, I would say it for sure was not a waste of time. The more you code, the better you play.
Lukasz Adamowski

P.S. And BTW who is going to prepare next RF round?

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From: "sayembara" <sayembara@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Odp: A Small Request
Date: 25 Feb 2005 05:10:56 -0800
Message-ID: <1109337056.281001.256810@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>

Lukasz Adamowski wrote:
> Dnia 24-02-2005 o godz. 16:33 CH napisal:
> > To those who participated in the football round of the rft
tournament
> > could you PLEASE tell me what you thought of the CORRECTED version
of
> > my program! Just tell me it wasn=B4t a complete waste of time. :-(
>
> And what the corrected version is? Can you please send it to the
newsgroup with a short description. The version on www.corewar.info is
a bit enigmatic.
> Anyway I think 21th RF Round was weird enough to treat it as a pure
fun, not a real competition. And when you are having fun, it can't be
waste of time, right? ;]
> Lukasz Adamowski

It is not a waste of time!

Regarding the corrected version of the program, I have to leave it to
the experts. Like any other games, rules have their advantages and
disadvantages. As long as all players agreed, everyone will have some
fun.



From: "CH" <cchh1990@Yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Odp: A Small Request
Date: 25 Feb 2005 14:18:04 -0800
Message-ID: <1109369884.454742.155480@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>

Actually I meant a waste of your (valuable) time. :-)

Description:

I tried to optimise the scanning loop and core clear
but ran out of time before I could finish the pit so ALL
my optimising went to waste. :-(

My program scans the whole core for anything with
both fields zero and bombs around it with
jmp #0, #0 (just in case the b-field gets modified ;-)
after it has scanned the entire core it starts a vampire
coreclear (capturing the ball and the enemy). The
captured processes scan linearly for the enemy goal
and the process that finds it bombs it, eventually the
ball will bomb it.

;redcode-94
;name Adonowutjatinc
;author CH
;strategy An obese scanner probably destined
;strategy for last place. But who cares? :-)
;assert CORESIZE=8000


goal    equ     4000
ball    equ     3004


lenth   equ     24      ;18 scanable by jmz and 20 scanable by seq
;one bombable by nearly anything and one bombable by dats only
step    equ     4293


org scan

a equ 21 ;lost original values
b equ 0
c equ 0

for a
jmp #0, #ball                  ;just in case someone scans here
rof
dat 0, 0
for b
jmp #0, #ball
rof
dat 0, 0
for c
jmp     #0,     #ball
rof
for 55-2
dat     0,      0
rof
wait    djn.a   #0,             @clr
inc     add     #step,  @scan
scan    jmz.f   inc,            @ptr
slt     #0-lenth,       ptr
mov.f   @scan,  dir
spl     wait,           }dir
jmn     clr,            ptr
sub.f   #1,             2
spl     #0,             #0
clr     mov     bomb,           >dir
jmn.a   clr,            @-1
dat     goal,           0
jmp     0,              ptr
bomb    jmp     #0,             #0
dir     spl     #0,             #0
seq.x   -4,             >4
jmp     -1
mov.b   2,              3
mov     -7,             <2
        jmp     -1,             5
        jmp     -6,             -24
        jmp     -1
ptr     dat     14,             step
end

for those interested I started playing corewars at age nine



From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?=A3ukasz_Adamowski?= <corewars@wp.pl>
Subject: Re: Odp: A Small Request
Date: 27 Feb 2005 17:34:30 -0500
Message-ID: <42223ba21834b@wp.pl>

Dnia 25-02-2005 o godz. 23:30 CH napisal:
> Actually I meant a waste of your (valuable) time. :-)
Hm... "That changes a lot!" as said this guy with squinted eyes in one of Monty Python's sketches. (Just kidding! ;)

> for those interested I started playing corewars at age nine
And how old are you now? And what age had your oldest warrior on the hill? (Kidding again ;) I don't remember when I've heard about corewar for the first time, but I think I was at least 14 when I started playing.

Lukasz
P.S. Tonight I was late for IRC tour, sorry! It has just slipped from my mind. Congratulations to the winner! 

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From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - ICWS Experimental 94 02/28/05
Date: 28 Feb 2005 08:55:38 -0500
Message-ID: <200502280506.j1S561NC029681@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/28/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG ICWS Experimental 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Tue Feb 22 15:27:55 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  43/ 37/ 20             Fatamorgana X           Zul Nadzri     150       3
 2  39/ 38/ 23             The X Machine           Zul Nadzri     141      27
 3  42/ 45/ 13           Fire and Ice II          David Moore     138     116
 4  39/ 41/ 21              Eliminator X           Zul Nadzri     137      28
 5  23/  9/ 68              Evol Cap 4 X       John Wilkinson     137     285
 6  39/ 40/ 21               Black Moods          Ian Oversby     137     212
 7  28/ 20/ 51                xd100 test        David Houston     137      13
 8  23/ 12/ 65                    Denial          David Moore     134     157
 9  35/ 37/ 28              Trefoil F 13        Steve Gunnell     133      99
10  30/ 27/ 43                    KAT v5          Dave Hillis     133     148
11  36/ 41/ 23                      Ogre    Christian Schmidt     132     164
12  28/ 24/ 48                 Glenstorm         John Metcalf     131      78
13  19/  7/ 74             Evolve X v4.0       John Wilkinson     131     233
14  29/ 28/ 43                  Olivia X             Ben Ford     131      97
15  37/ 44/ 20        Giant Hazy Test 13        Steve Gunnell     130      43
16  24/ 18/ 58                       Kin         John Metcalf     130     124
17  28/ 28/ 44               Venom v0.2b    Christian Schmidt     129     238
18  35/ 42/ 23        Simply Intelligent           Zul Nadzri     127       9
19  33/ 40/ 27     Controlled Aggression          Ian Oversby     127     216
20  39/ 54/  7   something from darkwood         John Metcalf     125       1

21  30/ 38/ 32                  overlord         John Metcalf     121       0



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - MultiWarrior 94 02/28/05
Date: 28 Feb 2005 08:55:43 -0500
Message-ID: <200502280503.j1S531b1029586@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/28/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Multiwarrior 94 CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sun Feb 27 12:18:38 EST 2005
 
 #                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1                 SSD-clear                  Neo      40      41
 2                  CLP-shot            G.Labarga      28       6
 3                 stray cat         John Metcalf      22      17
 4 sauron's eye v1.01 (mini              el kauka      21      40
 5 kingdom of the grasshoppe     simon wainwright      18      16
 6            battle of bits         John Metcalf      16       4
 7                Hiperblast            G.Labarga      16      26
 8              magic amulet     Simon Wainwright      14       1
 9              my first clp             el kauka      13       5
10                  overlord         John Metcalf      11       2

11                       clp         John Metcalf      10       3



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status -  94 No Pspace 02/28/05
Date: 28 Feb 2005 08:55:33 -0500
Message-ID: <200502280509.j1S59183029757@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/28/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG 94 No Pspace CoreWar Hill:

Last battle concluded at : Sun Feb 27 13:41:45 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  39/ 27/ 34                Hullabaloo         Roy van Rijn     151     168
 2  45/ 42/ 13                     Arrow    Christian Schmidt     148     371
 3  38/ 28/ 34             The Humanizer            bvowk/fiz     148      56
 4  42/ 39/ 19        HazyLazy Test C 30 Steve Gunnell / Chri     146      15
 5  37/ 29/ 34                    Borgir    Christian Schmidt     146     203
 6  32/ 18/ 50              Black Knight    Christian Schmidt     145     193
 7  29/ 15/ 56                 Maelstrom         Roy van Rijn     143     312
 8  41/ 40/ 19                 Beat this          Sascha Zapf     143      17
 9  43/ 45/ 12         Kenshin D Test 30        Steve Gunnell     142      13
10  29/ 17/ 54                    S.D.N.    Christian Schmidt     141      93
11  34/ 28/ 37                Gargantuan         Roy van Rijn     140     189
12  27/ 14/ 59            Chainlock v02a            G.Labarga     139      51
13  40/ 41/ 19          thoughts of fire         John Metcalf     139      68
14  40/ 41/ 19              A step ahead    Christian Schmidt     138       2
15  41/ 44/ 16       Origin of Storms II      Metcalf/Schmidt     137      45
16  32/ 27/ 42                     New-T         Roy van Rijn     137     102
17  39/ 41/ 20                    NSos15        Nenad Tomasev     136      14
18  26/ 18/ 55               The Utterer    Christian Schmidt     135      28
19  37/ 40/ 23            guardian angel     Simon Wainwright     133       1
20  30/ 32/ 38                      test            G.Labarga     129       6

21   2/ 98/  0                         0                    0       7       0



From: Koth <koth@koth.org>
Subject: KOTH.ORG: Status - Standard 02/28/05
Date: 28 Feb 2005 08:55:46 -0500
Message-ID: <200502280500.j1S501Sh029526@gevjon.ttsg.com>

			Weekly Status on  02/28/05
 
-=- irc.KOTH.org is up! Meetings held in #corewars
-=- Tons of new features on www.KOTH.org/koth.html pages
-=- *FAQ* page located at: www.KOTH.org/corewar-faq.html
 


Current Status of the KOTH.ORG Standard KotH CoreWar Hill :

Last battle concluded at : Wed Feb 23 14:05:13 EST 2005
 
 #  %W/ %L/ %T                      Name               Author   Score     Age
 1  40/ 28/ 32         The Next Step '88        David Houston     152      34
 2  35/ 24/ 41            The Hurricaner            G.Labarga     147       5
 3  35/ 25/ 40                      Test Alexander (Sasha) Wa     144     158
 4  34/ 26/ 40             Freight Train          David Moore     143     219
 5  41/ 40/ 18              Scan the Can    Christian Schmidt     142      14
 6  40/ 39/ 21             Tangle Trap 3          David Moore     142      47
 7  40/ 40/ 20                My 1st try    Christian Schmidt     141      50
 8  33/ 26/ 40                  Guardian          Ian Oversby     140     218
 9  33/ 26/ 41                      test            G.Labarga     140       1
10  33/ 27/ 39                    A.I.P.    Christian Schmidt     139      26
11  38/ 38/ 24                    PacMan          David Moore     139     248
12  36/ 32/ 32                  The Seed         Roy van Rijn     139      36
13  24/ 11/ 64                 IMParable            G.Labarga     138       6
14  26/ 15/ 59               Utterer '88    Christian Schmidt     137       2
15  38/ 43/ 19                  Moonwipe    Christian Schmidt     133      15
16  37/ 43/ 20                    Stasis          David Moore     132     326
17  41/ 50/ 10              Speeed 88mph    Christian Schmidt     132      18
18  40/ 50/ 10             Scan Test C 6        Steve Gunnell     131      57
19  35/ 41/ 24               '88 test IV         John Metcalf     129     112
20  37/ 48/ 15  Cold as November Rain...         John Metcalf     126      32

21  24/ 71/  5                NetRaid5.2    Keith T. Berkhout      76       0