From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!news.stormking.com!PK6811S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU Mon Jul 8 18:42:15 1996 Article: 5571 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.new-york.net!news.stormking.com!PK6811S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU From: PK6811S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: Mirrored Imps Date: 6 Jul 1996 16:08:23 -0400 Organization: Storm King Ind. Inc. Lines: 30 Sender: server@news.stormking.com Distribution: world Message-ID: <01I6QYGJFK5K000SJU@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU> Reply-To: PK6811S@ACAD.DRAKE.EDU NNTP-Posting-Host: valhalla.stormking.com Originator: corewar-l@stormking.com Justin Kao <102741.2022@CompuServe.COM> wrote: >What are mirrored imps? They are an adaptation of imp-spirals where two spirals at distance 4000 feed each other instructions. A 3-point spiral can be made into a 6-point mirrored spiral executing this instruction: mov.i #0,2667+4000 A pretty good launch: spl 1 mov -1,0 spl 1 mov