Corewar

42 project corewar

"Core War is a 1984 programming game created by D. G. Jones and A. K. Dewdney in which two or more battle programs (called "warriors") compete for control of a virtual computer. These battle programs are written in an abstract assembly language called Redcode."
wikipedia

Description

the 42 corewar project includes assembly compiler, arena vm, and a champion.

asm

asm is an assembly compiler which compiles a champion from .s file to .cor file.

corewar

corewar is an arena vm, where .cor binary files fights against each other inside the memory of 4096 bytes.

champion

our champion, infinite_zorkling.

bonuses

assembler error messages
vm debug mode
vm visualizer
disassembler
disassembler visualizer

Requirements

ncurses for visualizer

Usage

make
usage: ./asm 'sourcefile.s

Usage:./corewar [-d N]  [-v] [-de N] [-n N] <champion1.cor> <...>
### CONTESTANT ######################################################
your_champion.cor: Champion compiled with the asm
-n (0 < N < INTMAX)    :  Set champion number for the next champion
### DUMP ############################################################
-dump (0 < N < ULLMAX) :  Dumps memory after N cycles then exits
### DEBUG OUTPUT MODE ###############################################
-de (0 < N < INTMAX)  1:  cycle number
                      2:  death logs
                      4:  live logs
                      8:  load logs
                     16:  store logs
                     32:  logical op logs
                     64:  jump, fork logs
### PRINT OFF MODE ##################################################
-p                   1 :  live comment off
                     2 :  aff comment off
                     3 :  all comment off
### VISUAL MODE #####################################################
-v                   Ncurses visualizer mode
#####################################################################

Author

Alblfbv
mini0621
Mthandazo42
sunca7