March Update: What's New in Corewar?

Here's a quick summary of the last couple of months:

Blog posts:

• Core War: the King of Programming Games
• Corewar - the Ultimate Game?
• Core War: A Dying Breed
• Happy 25th Birthday Core War!
• Underload Interpreter in Redcode

Articles and Software:

• Using Core War to Simulate Evolution
• Infinite DynaHills, including Nano
• RedMixer

nano papers: ghoulish and Apis Mellifera

Here are a couple of nano paper/clear I've been playing with recently using a mov.i #1,<1 anti-imp clear.

;redcode-nano
;name ghoulish
;author S.Fernandes
;strategy paper/clear
;assert CORESIZE == 80

pstep   equ     -39
cpos    equ     -18
dpos    equ     27

paper   spl     #-21        ,    <-32
        mov     }paper-1    ,    }pboot
        mov.i   #1          ,    <1
pboot   spl     <pstep      ,    cpos
        djn.f   paper+1     ,    <dpos
        end

;redcode-nano
;name Apis Mellifera
;author S.Fernandes
;strategy paper/clear
;assert CORESIZE == 80

pstep   equ     -22
cpos    equ     -18
dpos    equ     -8

paper   spl     #0          ,    <33
        mov     }paper      ,    }pboot
pboot   spl     <pstep      ,    <-16
        mov.i   #1          ,    <1
        djn     paper+1     ,    #dpos
        end

Redcode Forth

Redcode Forth is an interpreter for a 36 word subset of the Forth programming language. I don't know much about Forth, but fortunately the interpreter is supplied with a summary of the instruction set and a step-by-step example.

The interpreter uses a new Redcode instruction to display text, sts. I wonder if John is also planning to support ARES which has a different system for i/o?