Core War (or Core Wars) is a programming game in which two or more battle programs (called warriors) compete for the control of the MARS virtual computer (Memory Array Redcode Simulator). These battle programs are written in an abstract assembly language called Redcode. The object of the game is to cause all processes of the opposing program(s) to terminate, leaving your program in sole possession of the machine.
Core War was in part inspired by a game called Darwin, written by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy at the Bell Labs in the 1960s.
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A. K. Dewdney's Scientific American Articles on Core War - HTML versions of the original articles from Scientific American in the 1980's.
Christoph's CoreWar Page - Links to informational pages, servers, projects, and resources.
Core War - Features information, competions, links, events, and downloads.
Core War - King of the Hill - The official KOTH tournament.
Core War Download - Also offers a screenshot, description, and user reviews.
Meta Description: [ Linux games database ]
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Core War Links - Damien Doligez's page. Features information and links.
Core War Source Code - Also includes tournaments.
Core Warrior - A newsletter promoting the game of Core War.
Meta Description: [ a lightweight portal for corewars ]
Corewar Info - Redcoders Frenzy tournament. Contains schedule, beginner's guides, benchmarks, and links.
Meta Description: [ Homepage of Redcoders Frenzy, the ongoing corewar tournament. Including Benchmarks, Beginner's Guides, Evolving Warriors and links to corewar related websites. ]
CoreWar Koenigstuhl Page - A hill with several categories where every program fights every other program.
Evolved Core Warriors - Offers links and downloads.
Exhaust - A redcode simulator to embed into applications.
Genetic Algorithms to Evolve Core Warriors - Some slides about using a genetic algorithm for evolving Core Warriors.
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Jason's Corewar Project - Downloads and links.
MARS - Memory Array Redcode Simulator - Java applet version 1.2b for ICWS88 by T. Kentemich and W. Zimmer.
Metcalf's Corewar Site - Contains details of Corewar IRC tournaments, and downloads.
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Corewar is a game played between two or more computer programs on behalf
of the players who create them. Known as warriors, these programs are written
in Redcode, a low-level language similar to assembly. Warriors battle to
eliminate all opponents in the core memory of the MARS virtual compu... ]
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Parallel Core War - A project to create a parallel MARS environment using either a network of transputers or a multi-CPU Power Series SGI machine.
Phil Knight's Core War - Windows NT/95/98 Core War programs and utilities.
Philip Kendall's Core War - A guide to getting started and several downloadable Core Warriors.
pMARS - Source code and binaries.
pMARS Official Home Page - pMARS is the official Core War simulator of the ICWS and the rec.games.corewar newsgroup.
R.O.M.E. 68000 - Some information about the R.O.M.E. 68000, a new system for Core War.
rec.games.corewar FAQ - FAQ from the Usenet newsgroup rec.games.corewar.
SourceForge: Core War - A stable and complete implementation of Core War.
Meta Description: [ The world's largest development and download repository of Open Source code and applications ]
The Imp Ring - A webring of sites related to Core War.
ZX Spectrum Redcode - Runs Redcode programs on a 48K Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
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