Corewars

Corewars is a simulation game where a number of programs try to crash each other.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Walter Hofmann
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://sal.math.ualberta.ca/

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Corewars Description

Corewars is a simulation game where a number of programs try to crash each other. Corewars is a simulation game where a number of programs try to crash each other. Corewars comes with a graphical user interface (GTK+) to display the running programs and statistics. Redcode is supported as well.Core Wars is a simulation game. A number of programs are loaded into avirtual machine and executed. The programs can to crash each other, manipulate other programs, overwrite as much memory as they can, etc...The "best" program is selected according to a scoring mechanism whichinvolves the number of memory cells the program has overwritten, the number of other programs it has crashed and whether/when it crashed.Two different languages are supported. The one called "Corewars" iseasy to learn. The second language, called "Redcode", is harder to learn but also more powerful.Requirements:· Glib 1.2.x· Gtk 1.2.xWhat's New in This Release:· changed division by zero handling to conform to the standard (Redcode)· added internal dump option to command line client· fixed bug in ZEROCHECK macro (Redcode)


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