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From: Ian Oversby ZFE T SE 5 (buchen) <oversby@marge.zfe.siemens.de>
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Subject: Poke
To: Damien.Doligez@inria.fr
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 1996 10:01:44 +0200 (MET DST)
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I just thought that I would warn you all that I am thinking of using this little
thing as a P-component unless I can get my other idea to work :->  It is probably not
very original but never mind.  A quick description:

It bombs at 0.33c and decrements at 0.33c for 0.66c if the enemy is vulnerable to
decrements.  The bomb and decrement are each mod-4 for an overall mod-2.  When the
bombing run is over, the SPL is layed on the DJN line, the loop line is decremented
and I think it continues bombing while the core is cleared, probably using DAT.

It scores pretty well against Blur, Miro and Torch.  Goes about evens against
Tornado, TNT and Thermite (why??) and loses really badly against anything with imps
or paper in it.  Paper is the worst, I think that is what is in Return of the Jedimp.
Imp/stones score between 10/50/140 and 10/100/90,  I expected them to do better.
MyVamp surprised me, scoring 92/102/6.  Maybe it is mod-4 (or 8) and my coloured
bombs don't decoy it very much.  I think it does OK against one-shots as well,
against Goliath it scored 86/78/36 and against Goldfinch 81/98/21.

;redcode-94 quiet
;name Poke v0.1
;author Ian Oversby
;strategy Testing components
;assert 1

stone	SPL.B	#76,	>-76	; mod-4
loop	MOV.I	{0+76,	2-76
	ADD.F	stone,	loop
	DJN.F	loop,	<-1900	; SPL is placed here
	MOV.I	1,	<-10	; for the core-clear

for 95
	DAT.F	$0,	$0
rof

end