From news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!news3.nwnexus.com!binary.alaska.net!not-for-mail Fri May 15 11:31:08 1998 Article: 9037 of rec.games.corewar Path: news-rocq.inria.fr!jussieu.fr!uvsq.fr!nntp-out.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!206.63.63.70!nwnews.wa.com!news3.nwnexus.com!binary.alaska.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <355BA1FD.61F3@alaska.net> From: cgbean@alaska.net Reply-To: cgbean@alaska.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: rec.games.corewar Subject: suggestions Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------3A366D614B5" Lines: 36 Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 01:56:05 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: anc-p46-115.alaska.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 17:56:05 AKDT Organization: InternetAlaska This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------3A366D614B5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit hello all! this is the newbie with more learning problems than a pet iguana. i was wondering if anyone could give SUGGESTIONS(!!!) on a small program i'm working on. impy.red is obviously useless today, but i like working with this concept. it basically launches endless imps, almost exactly like dewdney's IMP GUN. it then uses and imp gate to kill it's own passing imps. what's actually supposed to happen is they will write over another program, turning the other program into and imp, and the enemy imp is destroyed by the gate. this won't win battles, but i think it's good practice. the imps are simple MOV 0,1's, so most warriors will repel them, but i'm writing it like this anyhow, mostly 'cause i can't write better code. soooo, i was wondering if you could help. thanks in advance. -me a.k.a. WFB --------------3A366D614B5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="impy.red" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="impy.red" ;redcode-b ;name IMPy ;author WFB ;strategy lanches simple imps, then kills them (huh?) ;assert 1 net equ shoot-12 shoot: spl 2 catch: jmp -1,