In 1997 Anton Marsden organised a Corewar tournament with a difference. The three rounds challenged players to use Redcode to solve a variety of problems.In the third round of Anton's Corewar Tournament the challenge was to write a Redcode program to draw a pretty picture. First place was taken by Ilmari Karonen with a fractal fern.
Here's my own attempt at creating a pretty picture in the core view of pMARS. It's a fractal known as the Koch Curve.
Here's the program, just 18 instructions:
width equ 157
org koch
stack equ count+30
koch: mov #2-ptr, >stack
jmp count, }move
sub.a #2, move
mov #2-ptr, >stack
jmp count
jmp return, }move
count: djn koch, #11
mod.a #8, move
div.a #2, move
add.b *move, pos
mul.a #2, move
pos: add #1, koch+71*width/2+16
return: mov.ba <stack, ptr
ptr: jmp 0, >count
move: dat -1
dat -width
dat 1
dat width
Have you tried to write a graphical display in Corewar?
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