From news-rocq!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!remarQ-easT!remarQ.com!supernews.com!news.new-york.net!news.ttsg.com!paul_virak_khuong@yahoo.com Tue Nov 2 18:31:57 1999 Article: 10927 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!remarQ-easT!remarQ.com!supernews.com!news.new-york.net!news.ttsg.com!paul_virak_khuong@yahoo.com From: Paul-V Khuong Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: IMT #2 - Dumb_Luck Date: 2 Nov 1999 09:01:55 -0500 Organization: TTSG Lines: 61 Distribution: world Message-ID: <19991102134415.29377.rocketmail@web601.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: paul_virak_khuong@yahoo.com NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ttsg.com X-Trace: odin.ttsg.com 941551316 17379 204.141.84.29 (2 Nov 1999 14:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.ttsg.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Nov 1999 14:01:56 GMT Originator: corewar-l@koth.org Xref: news-rocq rec.games.corewar:10927 Kevin wrote: > Here is my entry to IMT #2. > [snip] > org start > > start mov.i data, -1 > mov.i data, jmp start > data dat #0, #-4 There's one useless line: the first line doesn't do anything... Except stomping imps at .33c... it'd have been better against imps if you decremented with the jmp too. Anyway, i don't think that there was any imp in the tournament... [snip] > came in at the bottom of the list. I am a new-comer > to the game and just > wanted to get started and this seemed like the > perfect way to begin. With a > nice short program. All constructive criticism is > welcome. Any advice > about where to get good information for beginners > would be greatly > appreciated. Another newbie here! Welcome! Almost everyone say that they think that cw is dying... Maybe it's not: how many more lurking newbies here?? C'mon lurkers! We wanna hear from you! 8) Well, the papers(like in tutorials) @ koth.org are good... I too missed the tournament(forgot to send my warrior) I intended to send some emerald like stone which bombed with a mod 3/4... it's this: ;redcode ;name faster dat bomber ;assert 1 step equ 24 spl #step-1,<-step mov.i <0+step-1,{4-step add.f -2, -1 djn.f -2, <-3-step Now, does anybody know why it works better with dissimilar steps? BTW, did anybody submit something like: spl #0,0 mov.i