Re: A89: corewars
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Re: A89: corewars
On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, rende-6 wrote:
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> Does anyone remember that *VERY* old game called corewars? I forget exactly
> how it worked, but it basically put aside a chunk of memory as a sort of
> virtual arena. Then people could write short .ASM code that acted sort of
> like a virus and set them loose in the arena to see whose code would win by
> completly wiping out the others code while showing the progress of each
> piece of code in a graphical & text interface. I think it would be really
> cool to do a version of this game for the TI-89 in a way that people could
> then write ASM code and put it on the net so ppl could then download it to
> their calcs to do battle against their own or others code. I'm a cs major,
> and know very rudementary ASM, but am willing to learn more to work on this
> project. If anyone else finds this an interesting idea and knows ASM,
> please e-mail me. I would very much like to make this a reality.
>
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