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Core War's MARS implementation in Python
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Core War's MARS implementation in Python

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rodrigosetti/corewar
• Owner: rodrigosetti
• License: other
• Created: 2013-01-24T17:50:34.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-09-13T01:49:49.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-02-08T20:47:39.908Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: corewar
• Language: Red
• Size: 234 KB
• Stars: 27
• Watchers: 9
• Forks: 12
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Core War

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The Canadian mathematician A. K. Dewdney (author of "The Planiverse") first

introduced Core War in a series of Scientific American articles

starting in 1984.

> Core War was inspired by a story I heard some years ago about a mischievous

> programmer at a large corporate research laboratory I shall designate X. The

> programmer wrote an assembly-language program called Creeper that would

> duplicate itself every time it was run. It could also spread from one

> computer to another in the network of the X corporation. The program had no

> function other than to perpetuate itself. Before long there were so many

> copies of Creeper that more useful programs and data were being crowded out.

> The growing infestation was not brought under control until someone thought

> of fighting fire with fire. A second self-duplicating program called Reaper

> was written.  Its purpose was to destroy copies of Creeper until it could

> find no more and then to destroy itself. Reaper did its job, and things were

> soon back to normal at the X lab.

In this game, computer programs (called "Warriors") compete in a virtual arena

for digital supremacy. Warriors are written in an Assembly dialect called

"Redcode".

[Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_War)

This is a Python implementation of the MARS (Memory Array Redcode Simulator).

    usage: graphics.py [-h] [--rounds [ROUNDS]] [--paused] [--size [CORESIZE]]

                       [--cycles [CYCLES]] [--processes [MAXPROCESSES]]

                       [--length [MAXLENGTH]] [--distance [MINDISTANCE]]

                       WARRIOR [WARRIOR ...]

    MARS (Memory Array Redcode Simulator)

    positional arguments:

      WARRIOR               Warrior redcode filename

    optional arguments:

      -h, --help            show this help message and exit

      --rounds [ROUNDS], -r [ROUNDS]

                            Rounds to play

      --paused              Start each round paused

      --size [CORESIZE], -s [CORESIZE]

                            The core size

      --cycles [CYCLES], -c [CYCLES]

                            Cycles until tie

      --processes [MAXPROCESSES], -p [MAXPROCESSES]

                            Max processes

      --length [MAXLENGTH], -l [MAXLENGTH]

                            Max warrior length

      --distance [MINDISTANCE], -d [MINDISTANCE]

                            Minimum warrior distance