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From: ceeih@cee.hw.ac.uk (Iain Hogg)
Subject: Help with beginner warrior
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Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 11:06:49 GMT
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Here is a warrior I have written which I feel should be doing better than it is
(I have got it onto the beginner hill briefly):

;name     A-Cluster v2.06
;author   Iain Hogg
;strategy Drops coreclears through core
;assert   CORESIZE==8000
;kill     A-Cluster

	ORG	start
step	EQU	200
killa	MOV.I	$-1, $10
killb	JMP	$-1, >-1
start	MOV.I	$killa, @targeta
	SPL	@targeta, >targeta
	MOV.I	$killb, @targeta
	MOV.I	$killa, @targetb
	SPL	@targetb, >targetb
	MOV.I	$killb, @targetb
	ADD	#step-2, $targetb
	SUB	#(step+2), $targeta
	JMP	start
targeta	DAT	$0, #-step
targetb DAT	$0, #step

The program starts by copying the coreclear (lines killa and killb) to
postitions #step above and below the program and splitting to them.  It then
adds/subs #step to the position pointers (targeta and target b) and returns to
the start of the loop).

Any help with this program would be greatly appreciated.

A few other questions:

I understand the paper/stone/scissors analogy, but what is pspace?
I have noticed references to warriors switching between programs depending on
their losses - how can this be found out from within the program?

And does anyone know of a site where the unix pmars can be ftped from other than
ftp.csua.berkeley.edu?

And on the point of beginners trying to understand corewar, personally I only
began to get the hang of it after reading through chapters 1 and 2 of Steven
Morrell's First Corewar Book - the other material (tutorials, icsws draft) was
too technical at first.
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