corewar's Introduction

Corewar

Corewar is a School 42 project. The purpose of this project is an implementation of the programming game “Core War”.

corewar.en.pdf is the task file.

Task resources is placed at the task_resources folder.

Wiki

This project has an 8-page guide. The guide was written in Russian.

You can read it at the wiki-pages.

Project Structure

This project consists of five parts:

Champion
Assembler
Disassembler (Bonus)
Virtual Machine
Visualizer (Bonus)

Project has three developed champions: amedvedi.s, wasp.s, kalle.s. They are located at the champions directory.

Assembler + Disassembler are modules of the program asm.

Virtual Machine + Visualizer are modules of the program corewar.

How to clone?

This repository includes submodule. So if you want to clone it, you can use the following command:

git clone --recurse-submodules <repository url>

Installation

Clone repository and then go into the created directory and run the following command:

make

Usage

`asm`

Usage: ./asm (champion.s|champion.cor)
    champion.s   — from assemble to bytecode
    champion.cor — from bytecode to assemble

`corewar`

Usage: ./corewar [-a (-dump|-d) <num> (-shed|-s) <num> -l <num>] [-v] [-n <num>] <champion.cor> <...>
    -a          : Print output from "aff" (Default is off)
    -dump <num> : Dump memory (32 octets per line) after <num> cycles and exit
    -d    <num> : Dump memory (64 octets per line) after <num> cycles and exit
    -show <num> : Run <num> cycles, dump memory (32 octets per line), pause and repeat
    -s    <num> : Run <num> cycles, dump memory (64 octets per line), pause and repeat
    -l    <num> : Log levels
                   1  : Show lives
                   2  : Show cycles
                   4  : Show operations
                   8  : Show deaths
                   16 : Show PC movements
    -v          : Run visualizer
    -n    <num> : Set <num> of the next player