Subject: King of the Hill
From: wms@iwarp.intel.com (William Shubert)
Organization: Intel iWarp, Beaverton, Oregon, USA
Date: 4 Dec 91 06:02:32 GMT
Message-ID: <1991Dec4.060232.7106@iWarp.intel.com>


   OK, folks, I spoke of it earlier and now it's ready.  An implementation of
King of the Hill corewar - a cumulative tournament.
   Justin seems to have finished up his also, but hey, enter both!
   How to enter?  Simple!  Format your corewar program as follows:

;redcode
;Name <Insert the name of your program here>
;Author <Insert your name here>
<Insert your program here>

And mail it off to: wms@iwarp.intel.com

The ";redcode" line is very important; without it my demon will think that it's
mail for me and not enter it in the tournament.
After receiving your mail, the demon should within a few minutes try to
assemble it and reply to you with a message either telling you that all is
well or that your program couldn't compile.  If something goes wrong it will
try to tell you what.

The assembler is fully ICWS '88 compatible WITH the following exceptions:
   A comma is required between two operands.
   The EQU pserdo-op does a parenthesized text insertion instead of straight
      text insertion.
   The core size is 8000 instructions.
   In addition to the normal +, -, *, and / operators parenthesis can be used
      in an argument.  I do not think that this is in ICWS '88.

Notice that it implements every goofy restriction in the standards; for
example, DAT instructions can only support immediate or pre-decrement
argument(s).
   So hurry up!  Send any program you have, no matter what it may be like,
and when I get enough together I'll run the tournament.  It is round-robin with
every program playing every other 10 times (5 going first, 5 going second).
3 points for a win, 1 for a tie, 0 for a loss.

SAMPLE PROGRAM:
;redcode
;name Dwarf
;author A. K. Dewdney
bomblen:        equ     progend - bomb
bomb:   dat     #0
start:  add     #bomblen,bomb
        mov     bomb,@bomb
        jmp     start
progend:
        end     start

PS - DON'T include a line like ";address this problem" in your code; this will
be interpreted as your return address for a mailer.
PPS - I may not have sufficiently tested this program.  It may crash, in which
case all later programs sent in will not get replies.  If this happens,
please bear with me.  Also, if you get a "weird" error message tell me about
it.
                                -Bill (wms@iwarp.intel.com)