From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!news Thu Apr 4 16:26:38 1996 Article: 4689 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!oleane!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news.belwue.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!lrz-muenchen.de!news From: guenzel@extern.lrz-muenchen.de (Bjoern Guenzel) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Clearing Imp Date: Wed, 03 Apr 1996 22:22:45 GMT Organization: Tichy Works Lines: 50 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4jut6i$qs1@sparcserver.lrz-muenchen.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: line51.ppp.lrz-muenchen.de X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.0.82 I am not sure if the following is worth posting, since the strategy never scores good, but it's perhaps a little bit unusual, so why not. It's a kind of Imp that leaves a dat trail behind it - in it's simplest form. The principle should work with any Imp-Ring. Unfortunately, it loses almost all benefits of a common Imp Spiral by doing so: the mov -step,step ring has two vulnerable points instead of one, the following bomb-ring makes the Imp very visible and is very vulnerable. I guess that's why the strategy will never be good for anything. The only thing I could have imagined is an Imp effective against papers- two rings, one throwing spl, the other dat. I am not very experienced with Imps, perhaps somebody has got an idea how to improve the idea? Bjoern ;redcode-b quiet ;name ImpClear ;author bjoern guenzel ;strategy Clearing Imp ;assert CORESIZE==8000 ;release 3.4.96 ;Planar-class: Imp,Clear? step equ 2667 mov imp,imp-step mov imp,bomber+step mov bomber-1,bomber-100 spl 1 ;create 6-processes mov -1,0 spl 1 jmp @1,}0 z for 3 dat #1,imp+(z-1)*step rof z for 3 dat #1,bomber+(z-1)*step rof bomber mov -1330,2*step-1330 imp mov -step,step