• LazerFX@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    What’s MARS? I couldn’t find any reference that seemed to match due to… well, the ambiguitiy of the name :D

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      1 year ago

      Oups, I misremembered: the game is called Core War. In it, MARS (“Memory Array Redcode Simulator”) is the name of a virtual machine that executes Redcode instructions. As a player, you write small programs (“warriors”) to be loaded on the virtual machine where they try to prevail while klling off (overwriting) opponent programs.

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        1 year ago

        Thanks for that - much appreciated. Sorry I failed to respond earlier, I’m still getting used to the fediverse, and seem to have managed to get multiple accounts so… yeah