What is Core Wars?

Welcome to the CORE WARS system for the Macintosh!

Core Wars is the Ultimate game for HACKERS. It was designed by A. K. Dewdney, and described in his "Computer Recreations" collumns which appeared in the May '84 abd March '85 issues of Scientific American.

In Core Wars two programs battle for control of the imaginary MARS computer. The programs are written by the players in an "assembly language" called REDCODE. The players edit, assemble, and run their programs all within the Core Wars system. The programs may be stored on disk, and loaded later to fight other players' programs.

During battle, the players can see all 8000 cells of the memory in the MARS computer. The dynamics of the battle can be viewed, or the battle can be stopped, so that memory may be examined in detail.

There is no end to the interesting battle programs that can be written. Some of them are described in this manual. Others in the articles mentioned above. You may create others.

See also: Redcoder, RoboSport, RoboWar, Wator

Download Core Wars for Mac

Architecture

Motorola 68K

System Requirements

From Mac OS 1.0 up to Mac OS 6.0

Compatibility notes

Emulating this? It could probably run under: Mini vMac