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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
🤖 CORE WAR TOURNAMENT ANNOUNCEMENT 🤖
The Core War Tournament Weekend will return to the Retro Computer Festival in Cambridge, UK on 14-15 November. We're running 4 tournaments over the weekend: 88, 94nop, limited process, and 94x. Details at corewar.co.uk/tournamentweek… #corewar
🤖 RubyMARS is a tiny CWS'94-compatible Core War simulator written in 105 lines of Ruby corewar.co.uk/rubymars.htm #corewar #rubylang
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.… #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
⭐ 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
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
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@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?
🏆 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_Challeng… #corewar
The Core War Nano Challenge is about to go live... youtube.com/watch?v=mDBWWcFv… #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_Challeng…
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⭐️ 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_Challeng… #corewar