This year's Core War Tournament Weekend is over. Congrats to inversed who claimed first place in Sunday's 94 tournament: 1st "Twin Storms" by inversed 2nd "King Cobra" by inversed 3rd "smart clear" by Christian Schmidt 4th "Flaking Rust" by lain 5th "HELLHAMMER" by Drugganator #corewar #retrofest

A few demos running on day one of the Retro Computer Fest in Cambridge. v5 of the Core War simulated annealing script on a Milk-V MARS, Core War on the FUSE #zxspectrum emulator on HaikuOS and Core War genetic algorithms on a Raspberry Pi 3B #retrofest #corewar

The 88 Core War Tournament is over! Congratulations to Inversed. #corewar 1st "Semiopacity" by inversed 2nd "Janus" by inversed 3rd "chaoscan" by Christian Schmidt 4th "TrItE Fighter 5" by Philip Thorne 5th "Bewitching'88" by S.Fernandes

⭐ Core War tournament reminder... the deadline for the 88 tournament is at 11:30am (GMT) on Saturday 15th November. Entries currently received from two players. corewar.co.uk/tournamentwe... #corewar

The Core War Tournament Weekend returns to The Retro Computer Festival on 15-16 November. The 88 tournament on 15th, 94nop on 16th. Entries will be added to the top-x of the Koenigstuhl hill before an iterative push-off with diversity scoring to determine the final rankings. More info soon. #corewar

20 years ago - Mandragora entered the KOTH 94nop hill on this day in 2005. A clear/imp with a g2-style SPL/DAT clear and vortex-launched imps corewar.co.uk/mandragora.htm

🏆 Congratulations to Inversed and Dave Hillis, who claimed first and second place in the Nano Core War Challenge with Reptiloid Supremacy, Reptiloid Conspiracy, and Smitten Atrocity. inversed.ru/CoreWar_Chal... #corewar

The Core War Nano Challenge is about to go live... www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDBW... #corewar

⏰ TOURNAMENT REMINDER - the entry deadline for the Nano Core War Challenge is at 10:00 UTC on Sunday 15th June. Please ask on the Core War Discord if you need any help. ▫️ Discord - discord.gg/YxrbaQDT9z ▫️ Tournament page - inversed.ru/CoreWar_Chal... #corewar

⭐ CORE WAR TOURNAMENT ANOUNCEMENT ⭐ Inversed has announced the Nano Core War Challenge, with a first prize of $100 🙂 Entries will be scored against the Nash equilibrium, and a new equilibrium will be calculated. inversed.ru/CoreWar_Chal... #corewar

Here's a 3D MDS map of the top 100 warriors from the 88 Koenigstuhl. Each point represents a warrior. The closer a point is to another point, the closer the warriors' scores are. #corewar

Creeper was the first computer worm, spreading across ARPANET in 1971 with the message "I’m the creeper, catch me if you can!" Here's the story of Creeper and Reaper, which inspired Core War corewar.co.uk/creeper.htm #corewar

Inversed has created a best counter graph for the nano, tiny and limited process hills, connecting each warrior with the opponent which beats it with the highest score: ▫️▫️ groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co… reddit.com/r/corewar/comm…

Has anyone got access to the issues of Tudomány (the Hungarian edition of Scientific American) with A K Dewdney's Számítógépes Észjáték columns about Memóriaháború (Core War)? Thanks #corewar

"Windows Hothouse, Creating Artificial Life with Visual C++" by Mark Clarkson (1994) has a chapter on Core War.

Inversed has computed the Nash equilibrium for the tiny hill. Ranking is by probability with all warriors scoring the same. For more details, see "Nash equilibrium: Tiny 2022.03.23 groups.google.com/g/rec.games.co…

Results for the grand final of the Corewar Global Masters, "Tiny Survival": 1⃣ Roy van Rijn 2⃣ Inversed 3⃣ Steve Gunnell 4⃣ Sascha Zapf 5⃣ Dave Hillis 6⃣ Wayne Sheppard 7⃣ S.Fernandes 8⃣ John Metcalf 9⃣ RainRat

Entries are in for the Corewar Global Masters. The action will be livestreamed at▫️ Round 1, 10th Feb, 7pm (CET/GMT+1) ▫️ Round 2, 11th Feb, 7pm ▫️ Round 3, 12th Feb, 7pm ▫️ Lower Ranks, 13th Feb, 6pm ▫️ Grand Final, 13th Feb, 8pm Spectators welcome 🙂 twitch.tv/corewarglobal

The 88, 94 and 94x Core War Hall of Fame have been updated: ▫️▫️▫️ corewar.co.uk/halloffame/94x… corewar.co.uk/halloffame/94n… corewar.co.uk/halloffame/88h…

The Sierpinski triangle in Redcode #corewar

Here's a short optima number calculator in Python using the bomb-free space algorithm. #python #corewar ▫️ corewar.co.uk/optima/optima.…

Imps, rings, spirals and how to launch them corewar.co.uk/imp.htm

📉 Methods for finding Core War optima numbers: ▫️ Closest previous hit ▫️ Distance from midpoint ▫️ Bomb-free space ▫️ Locally Fibonacci steps ▫️ Find-x numbers Sample code corewar.co.uk/optima.htm

Happy Birthday Darwin - the first programming game is 60 years old! Victor Vyssotsky, Douglas McIlroy and Robert Morris created Darwin on an IBM 7090 at Bell Labs in August 1961. corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm

Are there any assembler automata artificial life models missing from this list?: Luna, Venus, Tierra, Avida, Helix, Helix4, Amoeba, Amoeba II, Amoeba III, COMOS, Nidus, Quantum Coreworld, CoreLife, Evolve 4.0, SALTA #alife #ArtificialLife

Does anyone know the source of this John von Neumann quote?: “Life is a process which can be abstracted away from any particular medium.” #Alife #ArtificialLife

It only takes a few clicks to get pMARS up and running on NomadBSD, a persistent live system based on FreeBSD for USB flash drives. #corewar ▫️ Open OctoPkg ▫️ Search for pMARS ▫️ Right click and select install ▫️ Ctrl+M to commit

Are there any warriors similar to Gamma Paper 3.0 which bomb with a small stone then switch to paper? Apart from Gamma Paper I've seen Smooth Noodle Map, Killer Instinct and Leapfrog. #corewar

Are there any warriors similar to Hydra and the Living Dead series which launch multiple copies of very similar tiny bombers / clears? #corewar

🦠💾 A 1980 description of computer viruses. Wetherell heard the term at Livermore where Gregory Benford experimented with the earliest known virus (in Fortran, 1969). ▫️ Wetherell, Charles. "Programming Pastimes and Pleasures." Dr Dobb's Journal (Feb 1980) 36-37. @Brain0verride

Never mind the microbes on Venus, there are Mice on MARS 🙂 #corewar

🤖 Robot Odyssey - "the hardest computer game of all time". Design and program robots to escape from the underground city of Robotropolis. Featured in A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations column in Scientific American, July 1985 and Escape from Robotropolis by Fred D'Ignazio.

Some strong new entries on the94nop hill. Steve Gunnell and Anton Marsden have shaken the hill up over the last couple of weeks. #corewar KOTH.org

inversed has published issue 2 of CoreOps, covering silk step interactions#corewar inversed.ru/CoreWar/CoreOp…

Has anyone got access to any of the programming game groups on Yahoo (RoboWar, etc)? I'd love to archive the material before Yahoo delete the groups forever

Has anyone got access to the following issues of Scientific American please? If so I'd really appreciate a pic of the final page of Computer Recreations to check for any Core War news/updates thanks: Apr 1985, Nov 1985, Dec 1985, Mar 1986, May 1986, Nov 1986, Jul 1988, Aug 1988.

Krieg der Kerne #corewar #corewars #retrogaming

"The mod-1 optima numbers for a coresize of F_n are F_{n-1} and F_{n-2}, where (F_n) is the usual Fibonacci sequence." - Morrell's conjecture posted to r.g.c, 10 April 1996

The updated Core War FAQ and Glossary are ready if anyone has any suggestions (or spots any typos) 🙂 koth.org/info/glossary.… koth.org/corewar-faq.ht…

Hullab3loo has survived 2000 challenges on the94nop hill! Congratulations to @royvanrijn #corewar KOTH.org

Added some more Core War news items and updates from the addendum of A. K. Dewdney's Computer Recreations columns. corewar.co.uk/dewdney/

50 YEARS AGO IN COMPUTING HISTORY 1968 - Michael Bennett visited DEC where he discovered the programming game Core War. Dr Bennett set up his own version when he returned to the University of Western Ontario, inspiring A K Dewdney to create modern Core War corewar.co.uk/earlycw.htm

The Lévy C Curve implemented in Redcode. #corewar #fractal #fractals

🤖 A few robot programs have just been added to the RobotWar archive. Please let me know if you have any which aren't listed yet 😀#apple2 corewar.co.uk/robotwar.htm

The94 hill reopened on 20th October 2002. Here's what it looks like 15 years and 1173 challenges later 🙂 KOTH.org

Here's Macro Magic which demonstrates how to calculate: 1️⃣ powers using a macro 2️⃣ # of scans before a self-scan corewar.co.uk/macromagic.htm

Can anyone help? Looking for any refs to translations of Dewdney's articles not already listed here corewar.co.uk/dewdney/

A self-organising map of the Core War '88 Koenigstuhl, created by mjp in 2002 #datavisualisation #corewar

We're still looking for the solution to a question Dewdney posed: "what is the least vulnerable self-repairing program that can be written?"

"The spirit of corewars...