https://github.com/joelburget/corewarjs

Corewar in Javascript
https://github.com/joelburget/corewarjs

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Corewar in Javascript

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/joelburget/corewarjs
• Owner: joelburget
• Created: 2011-04-25T22:25:36.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-04-26T02:22:44.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-20T14:52:53.701Z (9 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 1.47 MB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 2
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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This project aims to write a client/server CoreWar runner in 100% Javascript.

See http://www.corewar.info/

How to test on the server side:

 - node tests/parser.js : test parsing on one warrior (edit file to change it)

 - node tests/88all.js : run unitest comparing both versions in warriors/88/ 

 - node tests/battle.js : run a battle between 2 imps (and soon more!)

How to run the backend/frontend:

 - npm install  express request test

 - node backend/app.js => frontend should be up at http://localhost:40008

TODO / How to help:

 - fix last few bugs in the parser

  - fix literal replacement of EQUs

 - use a proper JS loader and reduce the number of global variables when in browser mode.

 - compare starting points in 88all

 - document

 - clean the code a bit

 - create a nice browser GUI for showing battles (we already have pluggable viewers ! :-)

 - create a hill

 - create a ACE highlighter for redcode (https://github.com/ajaxorg/ace/tree/master/lib/ace/mode)

 - profile and optimize!

Credits:

 - Underscore.js

 - Math Parser : http://silentmatt.com/javascript-expression-evaluator/

 - Core/Warrior code forked from https://github.com/termie/corewarjs

 - Frontend code forked from https://github.com/jeromeetienne/arenajs/tree/master/www/dashboard 

License:

 - GPLv2

How does the parser work:

This will be documented soon with some slides hopefully that I'll try to present maybe at NodeCamp.eu 2011

Basically, the parser does this :

 - redcode.preparse(redcode) => javascript

 - eval(javascript) => array of lines like [["MOV",I],["#",0],["$",42]]

 - then the Core/Warrior combo executes them

If you add warriors:

 - find warriors -name "*.red" > warriors/list.txt