🤖 RubyMARS is a tiny CWS'94-compatible Core War simulator written in 105 lines of Ruby https://corewar.co.uk/rubymars.htm #corewar #rubylang
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MTS MARS Tournament Scheduler has been updated. Bugs fixed include self-fight scores, benchmark scores, warrior names with leading digits, and score overflow
https://corewar.co.uk/tools/mtsv162.c #corewar
https://corewar.co.uk/tools/mtsv162.c #corewar
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
@AdamOnza It sounds impossible, but at least one solution has been found 🙂
Core War Challenge (Difficult): Write a program to spawn 8000 processes and fill the entire core with JMP 0 instructions, with one process running each JMP. If you solve the challenge, please share the program length and cycles, but not the code. #corewar
The 2025 Core War Tournament Weekend is over. Congrats to inversed who claimed first and second place in yesterday'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
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. https://corewar.co.uk/tournamentweekend2025a.htm #corewar
You are invited to enter The Core War Tournament Weekend 2025: 15–16 November. Full details at https://corewar.co.uk/tournamentweekend2025a.htm #corewar