Article 791 of rec.games.corewar:
Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar
From: t-jcisek@microsoft.com (Julius Cisek)
Subject: Tiny and Gnats
Message-ID: <1992Apr30.195809.23677@microsoft.com>
Date: 30 Apr 92 19:58:09 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corp.
Lines: 57


ProtonDance-X prompted the development of Tiny and Gnats which were
short time visitors on the hill.  Tiny is like Andy Pierce's Small,
in a demented kind of way.  Tiny v1.2 made it to the hill, hit a
high of 19th, and was knocked off at the age of 4.  Gnats made it
as high as 5th once (yes really) and had a total age (versions Gnasty
and Gnastier included) of 20.  Lets knock off gnats first.  Here's
what a Gnat looks like:
;redcode verbose
;author J.Cisek
;date 4/16/92
gnat	mov -1, <-2
	jmp gnat, <-3

Of course, this isn't good enough, so the versions I submitted spread
8-32 of these things through the core.  Not very exciting, but they did
pretty well against some programs.

Finally, here's Tiny v1.2 (with decoys removed).  His biggest advantage
is that he doesn't have any piece of code that's longer than a dwarf.
Also, the pieces are strewn 60 places away.  What this does is assures
that if a program that scans by either mod 3, mod 4, or mod 5 misses
one piece, it'll miss 'em all (Tiny needs time to do his work...)
;redcode verbose
;name Tiny v1.2
;author J.Cisek
;strategy creation date 4/19/92
;strategy very small spl 0 bomber/clearer with decoys
;strategy  v1.1 4/20/92 better location
;strategy  v1.2 4/21/92 bombs with spl -1

start   mov trap, 3000
        mov slow-1, 3119
        mov slow, 3119
        mov slow+1, 3119
        spl 3117, #42
        mov clear, 3055
        mov clear+1, 3055
        dat #42

trap    spl -1, #42

clear   mov -2, <-2
        jmp clear, #0

        jmp -60, #0
slow    mov -121, <-122		; gets hit here with a SPL -1
        jmp slow, <-123

        dat #42
;Here's where your decoys go.  Go crazy!

        end start

;kill Tiny
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