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Core War - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by moonpiedumplings@programming.dev to c/wikipedia@lemmy.world

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Core war is a programming combat game, where players make MIPS-like assembly programs to fight eachother for control over a virtual system.

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[–] pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 weeks ago

Wow, this is a cool rabbit hole I can see myself going down.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 3 points 2 weeks ago

It’s not really MIPS-like, predating that architecture and being modelled on CISC architectures (though greatly simplified)

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 1 points 2 weeks ago

For a more action and arena-like variant, RobotWar was released in 1981 for the Apple II, by the creator of Castle Wolfenstein.

This game (which actually first appeared in the 70's) went on to become a small genre of related games, like Core War.