---===========--- --== C O R E W A R ==-- ---===========--- Welcome to the Lambda Lab's "King of the Hill" Core War server! Here you can take part in a battle of wits against other programmers. - Introduction - Core war is a game in which programs, written in a language known as "Redcode", fight to the death. It was introduced to the world by Alexander Dewdney in the Computer Recreations column of the May 1984 issue of Scientific American. There is much information about Core War scattered across the web, but the following is a good starting point: (HTM) https://corewar.co.uk/ (If anybody knows of a good gopher Core War reference, please let me know!) - King of the Hill - Automatic King of the Hill Core War competitions have been around almost as long as the game itself. The basic idea is as follows. A "hill" is a small number of redcode programs. Contestants submit a challenger program, which is then added to the hill. All possible pairs of programs are then pitted against one another and the number of wins achieved by each program tallied. The program with the fewest number of wins is then ejected from the hill. The goal is therefore to submit a program which remains on the hill for the longest time, thus becomming the "king of the hill". You can view the current occupants of the hill here: (TXT) Core War KotH Leaderboard - Submitting Challengers - To submit a challenger, simply paste the code into the body of a text-only email and send it to koth@thelambdalab.xyz. Only redcode-94 "load files" are currently acceptable. In addition, your submission must begin with ";redcode-94" and should also contain additional information following the standard redcode comment convention. For example, the following is an acceptable submission ;redcode-94 ;name Imp ;author A. K. Dewdney ;date April 29, 1993 ORG 0 MOV.I $0, $1 - References - For details on the "load file" format, see chapter 3 of the draft standard: (TXT) Draft of Proposed 1994 Core War Standard Load files can be automatically produced from ICWS'94 redcode using the website at (HTM) corewar.io The Lambda Lab Core War KotH server is implemented using: (DIR) The Janky Redcode Simulator