Article 890 of rec.games.corewar: From: sadkins@bigbird.cs.ohiou.edu (Scott W. Adkins) Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Bridge Message-ID: <1992May11.020839.15541@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu> Date: 11 May 92 02:08:39 GMT Sender: usenet@oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu (Network News Poster) Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens Lines: 49 Here is a program that has been most often found wandering the top 5 in the experimental hill. With the reshuffling of the X-Koth currently going on, it looks like Bridge will fall to be around 10th or so place. The basic idea is to copy itself to the next block of core and then start bombing its own area... then allowing each copy to copy itself and bomb its area. Eventually, the whole core will be effectively bombed... Scott Adkins sadkins@ohiou.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ;redcode-x verbose ;name Bridge ;author Scott Adkins ; ;strategy Copies itself forward in memory, starts the copy, and then spends ;strategy part of its lifetime bombing the 200 or so locations behind it. ;strategy The bombing routine continues for 20 times, at which time it copies ;strategy itself again and then falls back into the bombing routine again. ; length equ dst-start+1 source equ dst-src+1 output equ 238 write equ 43 road equ start-bomb-1 life equ 20 start mov #length, count mov #source, src mov #output, dst copy mov