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pMARS 0.9.5 is ready for release, unless any further changes are requested over the next couple of days. This release includes a new larger X Window display, a new colour Curses display, an optional CVD-safe colour palette, and multiple small issues fixed: https://corewar.co.uk/pmars.htm #corewar

pMARS - Portable Redcode Simulator

Download pMARS, the portable Core War simulator. Run, debug, and optimise Redcode warriors with the cross-platform interpreter and visual debugger.

Core War Nov 16

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

Core War Jun 15, 2025

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

Core War Mar 22, 2025

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 warrior's scores are. #corewar

Core War Jan 31, 2025

Here's a multidimensional scaling map of the 88-Koenigstuhl top 100. #corewar

Core War Jan 30, 2025

Here's a multidimensional scaling map of the 94-Koenigstuhl top 100. #corewar

Core War Nov 10, 2024

The Milk-V Mars has been running a Core War simulated annealing optimization demo for day two of the Retro Computer Fest at the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge. After a few hours, it's scoring 144 vs the 88-Koenigstuhl top 50! #corewar

Core War Nov 10, 2024

The 88 Core War Tournament running on a Radxa X4 SBC at the Retro Computer Festival yesterday. Using a Ruby tournament script which outputs Koenigstuhl-style score files #corewar #radxa

Core War Nov 9, 2024

Test run of the Core War tournament scripts using HaikuOS on a Samsung N150+ netbook at the Retro Computer Festival earlier today. #corewar #centreforcomputinghistory #haikuos

Core War Nov 3, 2024

🌟 Color Robot Battle Programming Tournament 🌟

There's a Color Robot Battle tournament at the Retro Computer Fest on 10 Nov and everyone is welcome to enter, whether or not you attend the event.

Rules:

1) no pacifist robots
2) robots must use at least one random condition
3) please name your robot
4) robots will battle round-robin
5) robots will be published after the event
6) deadline 8th Nov

https://corewar.co.uk/colorrobotbattle.htm
entries by email to digital.wilderness at googlemail

#tandy #retrocomputing

pMARS - Portable Redcode Simulator

Color Robot Battle: Adventures in Programming