From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!news.azstarnet.com!news Wed Oct 23 12:01:16 1996 Article: 6344 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!mathserv.mps.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!news.azstarnet.com!news From: Franz Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: How to improve? Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 16:55:28 -0700 Organization: Starnet Lines: 91 Message-ID: <326D5EF0.79D411F0@azstarnet.com> References: <54jhqt$l43@news2.texas.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: usr7ip59.azstarnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; Linux 1.2.13 i586) > >ya run unix ? ... heheheh me too ... Linux 1.2.13, been lazy to upgrade > >:) > > > >Franz > > yup. Best OS under the Sun (pun intended), nah better then that... Irix sucks ... too slow ... linux has a faster kernel :) > winblows doesn't have anything near > as useful as virtual consoles. alt-tab is wimpy :) yup ... or fvwm virtual desktops ... and one more cool thing ... since i'm running linux all my software is legal ... because everything's free :) > nothing beats having mail, > news, 2-3 copies of emacs, and pmars running (32MB ram+32MB swap partition :) > for usability. yup ... but i need to get more videoram since netscape easts up all my 265 colors and pmars won't run on x when i'm running netscape .. and i just can't see myself using anything less then 1200x1000 (or whatever those little numbers in my XF86Config are) > I almost can't stand dos anymore :) Just to keep this on topic, > I'm going to get to that scanner I mentioned right now :) I actually got into thinking about scanners and came up with a 166%c one shot that sucks ... oh well ... but it's fast ... can beat papers worse then coreclear alone ... but against scissors it doesn't stand any chance the shorter version 133%c is a bit better in that aspect ... here's the source ... (since it sucks and kills papers I'm not gonna send it to the hill (since i got three papers on there) nor to the tournament (yes you guessed it .. because it dies a lot)) I migth get to improving it but i don't think it's all that good anyway ... maybe instead of 2 points have 4 or 8 ... but it will take more time to decode and start bombing 2 are simple yet fast ... ;redcode-94 ;name Core Sweep ;author Franz ;strategy Sweep the Core ;assert 1 gate equ ccs-3 org sweep bait dat 99,99 for 20 dat 0,0 rof ccs dat 0,0 for 4 dat 0,0 rof p1 dat s1-ccs,200 p2 dat s1-ccs,(CORESIZE/2)-100 for 20 dat 0,0 rof d1 dat >d1-ccs,>s2+10-ccs s1 spl #s2-ccs,s2+50-ccs sweep sne.x >p1,>p2 seq.x >p1,>p2 jmp kill sne.x >p1,>p2 seq.x >p1,>p2 kill mov.i p1,ccs jmz.f sweep,ccs jmz.f 2,ccs mov.i *ccs,>ccs jmp -1,>gate end Franz