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pMARS 0.9.5 is ready for release, unless any further changes are requested over the next couple of days. This release includes a new larger X Window display, a new colour Curses display, an optional CVD-safe colour palette, and multiple small issues fixed: corewar.co.uk/pmars.htm

CoreWars for Agents modelwar-delta.vercel.app

MTS MARS Tournament Scheduler has been updated. Bugs fixed include self-fight scores, benchmark scores, warrior names with leading digits, and score overflow corewar.co.uk/tools/mtsv162.c #corewar

pMARS 0.9.5 screenshots #corewar

pMARS 0.9.5 is ready for release, unless any further changes are requested over the next couple of days. This release includes a new larger X Window display, a new colour Curses display, an optional CVD-safe colour palette, and multiple small issues fixed: corewar.co.uk/pmars.htm

Core War Challenge (Difficult): Write a program to spawn 8000 processes and fill the entire core with JMP 0 instructions, with one process running each JMP. If you solve the challenge, please share the program length and cycles, but not the code. #corewar

The Core War Tournament Weekend is over. Congrats to @inversed_ru who claimed first place in yesterday's 94 tournament: 1st "Twin Storms" by inversed 2nd "King Cobra" by inversed 3rd "smart clear" by Christian Schmidt 4th "Flaking Rust" by lain 5th "HELLHAMMER" by Drugganator

A few demos running on day one of the Retro Computer Fest in Cambridge. v5 of the Core War simulated annealing script on a @MilkV_Official MARS, Core War on the FUSE #zxspectrum emulator on @haikuOS, and genetic algorithms on a @Raspberry_Pi 3B #retrofest #corewar @computermuseum

The 88 Core War Tournament is over! Congratulations to Inversed. #corewar 1st "Semiopacity" by inversed 2nd "Janus" by inversed 3rd "chaoscan" by Christian Schmidt 4th "TrItE Fighter 5" by Philip Thorne 5th "Bewitching'88" by S.Fernandes

⭐ Core War tournament reminder... the deadline for the 88 tournament is at 11:30am (GMT) on Saturday 15th November. Entries currently received from two players. corewar.co.uk/tournamentweek… #corewar

You are invited to enter The Core War Tournament Weekend 2025: 15–16 November. Full details at corewar.co.uk/tournamentweek… #corewar

The Core War Tournament Weekend will return to The Retro Computer Festival on 15–16 November, featuring an 88 tournament on Saturday and 94nop tournament on Sunday. Entries by email, max entries two per person per tournament, more details to follow. #corewar

20 years ago - Mandragora entered the KOTH 94nop hill on this day in 2005. A clear/imp with a g2-style SPL/DAT clear and vortex-launched imps corewar.co.uk/mandragora.htm

@citcsmobile Yes, pMARS is a good choice, also exMARS. Both easy to call from a script and capture the results. AzureMARS also looks promising, but I need to experiment with it a bit more.

well, this is interesting... So now I can generate redcode, and mutate it... and tomorrow I should be able to actually run it through pmars.. @xcorewar pmars is still the best corewars engine, right? (running on linux, on a raspberry pi fyi).

@wrbuckley CoreLife is the closest we have to Core War with 2D memory. corewar.co.uk/corelife.htm

@xcorewar What discussion has occurred respecting memory architecture? One problem I found with Core War is a lack of horizon; two dimensional memory might also help. How might the instruction set be modified to support these two concepts?

@wrbuckley Not much interest in write limits today, but ~30 years ago there was a write-limit hill with several effective strategies. Eric Schwertfeger wrote about them here: corewar.co.uk/schwertfeger/f… - pMARS and CoreWin both support read/write limits.

🏆 Congratulations to Inversed and Dave Hillis, who claimed first and second place in the Nano Core War Challenge with Reptiloid Supremacy, Reptiloid Conspiracy, and Smitten Atrocity. inversed.ru/CoreWar_Challe… #corewar

The Core War Nano Challenge is about to go live... youtube.com/watch?v=mDBWWc… #corewar

⏰ TOURNAMENT REMINDER - the entry deadline for the Nano Core War Challenge is at 10:00 UTC on Sunday 15th June. Please ask on the Core War Discord if you need any help. ▫️ Discord - discord.gg/YxrbaQDT9z ▫️ Tournament page - inversed.ru/CoreWar_Challe… #corewar

⭐️ CORE WAR TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT ⭐️ Inversed has announced the Nano Core War Challenge, with a first prize of $100 🙂 Entries will be scored against the Nash equilibrium, and a new equilibrium will be calculated. ▫️ inversed.ru/CoreWar_Challe… #corewar