Corewar

Corewar is a 1984 assembly game where progams fight for
control of a virtual machine.
Warriors are programmed in a 16 instruction assembler language that is
compiled to bytecode and run on a VM with a cycilic memory space.
Each Warrior must attempt to spead their code while defending from enemies
that are attempting to do the same.

Layout

The code is divided into three seperate and independent executables:

• The vm itself in virtual_machine
• The assembler in assembler
• The dissassembler in disassembler

To run a game, first build the vm and assembler following the instrucitons in building then assemble your champions from assembler language into bytecode with the asm exectuable. Finally follow the virtual machines usage to setup your game, reproduced here:

usage: ./corewar [-dump nbr_cycles] [[-n number] <champ.cor>]
 -d <cycle>, --dump <cycle> | Specify cycle to dump memory
 -n <num> <player>, --number <num> <player> | Specify player number
 -q, --quiet  | Enable quiet mode (silence aff and live)
 -v, --visual | Enable visualization with ncurses, implies quiet mode

Building

To build all, run ./build_all.sh.
Alternatively, cd in and of virtual_machine, assembler, or disassembler and run make i.e cd virtual_machine; make

Requires

• C compiler
• make
• ncurses

Team

Jackson Beall
Thomas Cherret
Zeid Tisnes
Logan Kaser