corewar

Our own Core War AI champion, assembler, disassembler, and virtual machine in C using ncurses and minilibx. (42 Silicon Valley)

(This screenshot shows Player 2 (Chicken) is currently in the lead...)

Objectives

• AI champion program, e.g. srcs_champ/plagiarism.s
  • Written in 42 corewar variant assembly instruction set
• Assembler
  • Translate assembly .s to binary .cor
• Disassembler
  • Reverse-engineer binary .cor to assembly .s
• Virtual Machine
  • Enforce game rules
  • Render game graphics

Prerequisites

You are on macOS with gcc and make installed.

Compiling

make

Running

Assembler

./asm [ champ1.s ... ]

Disassembler

./disasm [ champ1.cor ... ]

Virtual Machine

The game can start with 1 - 4 players

./corewar [flags] [ champ1.cor ... ]

Flags:

• -v Enable dual visualizers.
• -e Enable emoji mode.

Visualizer Controls

(Circular Visualizer window has focus)

• Right Arrow Step forward 1 cycle.
• Tab Fast-forward and stop on next cycle-to-die.
• Spacebar Fast-forward or stop.
• Up Arrow Increase frame-skip.
• Down Arrow Decrease frame-skip.
• Escape Terminate the program.