Core War is a 1984 programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called "warriors") compete for control of a virtual computer. These battle programs are written in an abstract assembly language called Redcode.
Here's how it looks like:
We don't use the same set of assembly instructions as the original Corewar and we have some modulo limitations for the read and write ranges.
- First you'll need to write a .s file with a set of assembly instructions
- You can find this set in either corewar.pdf or in corewar_en.pdf
- Or you can just use one of the many warriors in the resources/champions directory
- Then you'll have to compile it using the
asmbinary - Then just execute the
corewarbinary with your warrior(s) as arguments
This was the final project of the Algorithm branch.
This project was made by these awesome people:
Just run make -C Corewar fclean && make -C Corewar... enjoy!
Work on OS X El Capitan and macOS Sierra, the ncurse library is used for the viewer.
./corewar [-d N -s N -v N | -b --stealth | -n --stealth] [-a] <champion1.cor> <...>
- -a : Prints output from "aff" (Default is to hide it)
- -d N : Dumps memory after N cycles then exits
- -s N : Runs N cycles, dumps memory, pauses, then repeat
- -v N : Verbosity levels, can be added together to enable several
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- 0 : Show only essentials
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- 1 : Show lives
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- 2 : Show cycles
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- 4 : Show operations (Params are NOT litteral ...)
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- 8 : Show deaths
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- 16 : Show PC movements (Except for jumps)
- -i : Ncurses output mode
./asm [-d champion.cor] | champion.s
- -d : Reverse compiler
- Generate an assembly file from a corewar file (.cor)
- (Comments are lost as well as label)
- (Default is to generate a corewar file from an assembly file)
./check_asm.sh [-del] [-exec] [-diff] [-deasm]
- -del : Delete created files
- -exec : Execute the script
- -diff : Execute
diffon all compiled files - -deasm : Execute the reverse compiler option then execute
diff
./script_v [number of champ 1-4] <champ name> <...>
- champ name are given without the .cor extension
- champ have to be placed in the folder resources/champions