From news-rocq!jussieu.fr!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!ng1.icn.state.ia.us!news Thu Aug 26 10:41:33 1999 Article: 10585 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq!jussieu.fr!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!ng1.icn.state.ia.us!news From: Paul Kline Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Spiral Camouflage Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 11:45:55 -0500 Organization: ICN News Server Lines: 6 Message-ID: <37C41DB4.4878@acad.drake.edu> Reply-To: pk6811s@acad.drake.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: drake-194-136.drake.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Xref: news-rocq rec.games.corewar:10585 Has anyone tried making a spiral that erases itself as it goes? At least zeroing it's operands before moving on. Might be useful against f- and b-scanners. Paul Kline pk6811s@acad.drake.edu From news-rocq!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.new-york.net!news.ttsg.com!jkw@austin.rr.com Thu Aug 26 10:41:38 1999 Article: 10587 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!news.new-york.net!news.ttsg.com!jkw@austin.rr.com From: jkw@austin.rr.com Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: Spiral Camouflage Date: 25 Aug 1999 14:25:45 -0400 Organization: TTSG Lines: 14 Distribution: world Message-ID: <4.1.19990825130244.00928350@pop-server> Reply-To: jkw@austin.rr.com NNTP-Posting-Host: odin.ttsg.com X-Trace: odin.ttsg.com 935605545 1231 204.141.84.29 (25 Aug 1999 18:25:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@news.ttsg.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 25 Aug 1999 18:25:45 GMT Originator: corewar-l@koth.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Xref: news-rocq rec.games.corewar:10587 At 01:31 PM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: >Has anyone tried making a spiral that erases itself as it goes? >At least zeroing it's operands before moving on. Might be >useful against f- and b-scanners. About 2 years ago I tried with no results to make an imp that would leave behind something that would kill any executing proc... with no results. The last thing you want to do is clear a/b fields though... that's the spiral's built in decoy! :/ -jkw From news-rocq!jussieu.fr!enst!freenix!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!arclight.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!msunews!not-for-mail Thu Aug 26 10:41:40 1999 Article: 10590 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq!jussieu.fr!enst!freenix!news-feed.riddles.org.uk!arclight.uoregon.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!msunews!not-for-mail From: David Matthew Moore Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: Re: Spiral Camouflage Date: 26 Aug 1999 03:23:13 GMT Organization: Michigan State University Lines: 52 Distribution: world Message-ID: <7q2bv1$97h$1@msunews.cl.msu.edu> References: <4.1.19990825130244.00928350@pop-server> NNTP-Posting-Host: akutan.cse.msu.edu User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980618 (UNIX) (SunOS/5.6 (sun4u)) Xref: news-rocq rec.games.corewar:10590 jkw@austin.rr.com wrote: : At 01:31 PM 8/25/99 -0400, you wrote: :> :>Has anyone tried making a spiral that erases itself as it goes? : : About 2 years ago I tried with no results to make an imp : that would leave behind something that would kill any : executing proc... Those are great ideas! David. ;redcode-94 ;name Bird of Prey ;author various authors ;strategy imp spiral with cloaking device ;assert 1 step equ 2667 boot spl 1,0 spl 1,0 spl 1,0 spl 1,0 jmp >1, }0 dat 0, imp+0*step dat 0, imp+0*step-1 dat 0, imp+0*step-1 dat 0, imp+1*step dat 0, imp+1*step-1 dat 0, imp+1*step-1 dat 0, imp+2*step dat 0, imp+2*step-1 dat 0, imp+2*step-1 dat 0, imp+3*step dat 0, imp+4*step dat 0, imp+5*step dat 0, imp+6*step dat 0, imp+7*step dat 0, imp+8*step dat 0, imp+9*step for MAXLENGTH-CURLINE-2 dat 0,0 rof mov.i }0, <1 ; cloaking device (executed twice) imp mov.i #-2, step ; the imp end boot