Article 1673 of rec.games.corewar: Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Path: hellgate.utah.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!dunix.drake.edu!acad.drake.edu!pk6811s From: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu Subject: Re: Imp of the hill... Message-ID: <1993Mar5.165959.1@acad.drake.edu> Lines: 142 Sender: news@dunix.drake.edu (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: acad.drake.edu Organization: Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA References: Distribution: rec Date: Fri, 5 Mar 1993 22:59:59 GMT In article , d91andiv@IDA.LiU.SE (Anders Ivner) writes: > 1 44/ 22/ 34 Imprimis 6 P.Kline 166 198 > 2 43/ 23/ 34 Sphinx v2.8 W. Mintardjo 164 508 > 3 42/ 21/ 37 It nandor sieben 164 820 > 4 41/ 21/ 38 +0 Stormbringer Dan Nabutovsky 161 940 > 5 42/ 23/ 35 Night Wayne Sheppard 160 549 > > Need I say more? > > Anders Ivner Course, down at the bottom of the hill are a couple of small bombers, which are easy pickings for the imps. Anyway, Dan's no-tinker policy looks to bear fruit real soon with +0 Stormbringer being the first warrior to go over 1000 challenges. And Eclipse, which is tough on imps, was put up with a bug and got knocked off. To encourage tougher anti-imp programs, here is Imprimis 6. It would be helpful for all the above authors to publish, so we can see what we're up against. Otherwise people will continue to be discouraged - it's hard to beat what you can't see. ;redcode quiet ;name Imprimis 6 ;kill Imprimis ;author P.Kline ;strategy stone like ExtraExtra ;strategy one 3-point spiral like Impression - binary launch ;strategy one 7-point spiral like Nimbus - jmp/add launch ;strategy anti-vampire code -> reverse coreclear ;strategy clears startup code after it should have completed ;strategy startup-clear -> forward coreclear for redundancy d equ 2667 d2 equ 1143 impp1 equ 1000+97+139 impp2 equ 2033+97+153+65 dat #2 dat #0 add #2,ptrcl clear spl @-3,<3864 movcl mov switch,