Anyone here play Core War?

[aardvark]

Does anyone here play the great game "Core War"? If you don't know what it is, check out www.corewar.sourceforge.net . Just wondering because I began to play it a bit in the last few days. Can't make it do much, though .

[TheBigBasicQ]

Bad link =( Whats it anyway?

[red_Marvin]

I think I heard of it; Some sort of hacking game?

[TheBigBasicQ]

Hmm...now that you mention it, I think i have heard about it. But it was quite sometime ago. But then again my memory may have been corrupted at address 00000001536:1545784241000 =P

[Zap]

the link: It's without the 'www': http://corewar.sourceforge.net/

[pr0gger]

I've heard of it from some programming book... you code a robot and it fights with other coded bots over the CPU (old lingo: 'core') of the computer, or something like that

[TheBigBasicQ]

Now I remember! I read about it in a computer magazine a few years ago =)

[aardvark]

Well, yeah, two people write programs in a trimmed-down assembly language and let them loose in a simulated computer to destroy each other.

It's cool, but not for stupid people like me who have too much Ancient History homework .

[TheBigBasicQ]

Ugh history :barf:

[aardvark]

Well, I don't mind history, actually sometimes I quite like it, but not when I get swamped with questions about Pompeii...