Nov 1, 2026, 9:22 AM@Unixbigot Not only do I know about Core Wars, I played it quite a bit, and I may even have run a Core Wars comp at one point. Though it may have been Robot Wars. It was the 90s.
- Nov 1, 2026, 9:22 AM
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Kit BashirUnixbigot@aus.socialNov 2, 2026, 1:33 AM@kauer did you ever play pRobots or cRobots? This was a text mode arena game where you coded an autonomous robot gladiator in pascal or C, quite like robot wars irl but predating live robot wars and with no human driver (cheating dammit!)
- Nov 2, 2026, 1:48 AM
@Unixbigot it was text mode but 2D, had a tiny programming language with turn, advance, look and fire type primitives as well as basic maths. Each command took one cycle, so the more complex your algorithm the slower you were. That's the extent of my memory of it now. Definitely not actual C or Pascal code though it may have been written in one of those.
- Kit BashirUnixbigot@aus.socialNov 2, 2026, 1:49 AM
@kauer sounds very similar.
- Nov 2, 2026, 2:01 AM
@Unixbigot yes - "stripped down version of C" sounds right.