The Pizza Server Corewar Home Page

Core War is a game played by two or more programs (and vicariously by their authors) written in an assembly language called Redcode and run in a virtual computer called MARS (for Memory Array Redcode Simulator). The object of the game is to cause all of the opposing programs to terminate, leaving your program in sole posession of the machine.

King of the Hill (KotH) is an ongoing Core War tournament available to anyone with email. You enter by submitting a Redcode program via email with special comment lines. You will receive a reply indicating how well your program did against the current top twenty-five programs "on the hill".

The Corewar FAQ

plain text FAQ

Other Documents

• The Portable MARS (pMARS) Page
• The ICWS'88 Tutorials by Mark A. Durham:
  • Tutorial 1
  • Tutorial 2
• The ICWS'94 Draft by Stefan Strack and Mark Durham, also in plain text.
• My First Corewar Book by Steven Morrell:
  • Chapter 1: Imp-Rings, also in plain text.
  • Chapter 2: Stones, also in plain text.
• The Corewar Bibliography indexed by subject.
• The Evolving Warriors term paper by John Perry.
• Mintardjo's Intro to Art in '88 Page.
• Visit the FTP site for anything not here.
• Check out the rec.games.corewar newsgroup.
• Chat in the #corewars IRC channel on irc.koth.org.
• Here are all the back-issues of CoreWarrior.
• Having trouble submitting your program? Here's a guide to Pizza's ";commands".

The Current Status of you favorite Pizza Hill

The Pizza Core War KotH Server closed on 22 June 2001 and the hills have since moved to either KOTH.org or KOTH@SAL. Here are the final standings:

• Just how crowded is that Holding Pen?
  • The current '94 Hill, or latest test challenge.
  • The current '94 Experimental Hill, or latest test challenge.
  • The current '94 Beginner Hill, or latest test challenge.
  • The current Limited Process Hill, or latest test challenge.
• How busy are we these days? Check the usage statistics.
• A Hall of Fame has been compiled for the '94 Hill:
  • The Old Hall of Fame covers up to the removal of artificial aging.
  • The New Hall of Fame covers up to the great hill wipe.
  • The Revised Hall of Fame covers up to the close of the hills.

Other Related Sites

• The KotH.org Core War Home Page (Formerly StormKing.Com)
• KOTH@SAL is the home of several Core War hills.
• Christoph C. Birk's Core War Page, including a set of "infinite" hills.
• John Metcalf's Core War Library covers Core War history and strategies.
• Damien "Planar" Doligez's Newsletter and Warrior Archive
• Greg Lindahl's PBM (Play By Mail) Web Page
• Scott Manley's Corewar page, the first to have the "Wilkinson Benchmark"

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