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Discovered a tiny but alive Corewars contest online in the early 2000s and discovered the wonders of computer communities over distances that were insurmountabl
by wood_spirit 3y ago
Discovered a tiny but alive Corewars contest online in the early 2000s and discovered the wonders of computer communities over distances that were insurmountable in real life. Thank you.
- whitten 3y agoIs the contest continuing in the present ?
- wood_spirit 3y agoI think it’s much quieter but perhaps it is just needing a few new HNers to discover the intoxicating subtlety? http://www.corewars.org/ http://www.corewars.org/
- shagie 3y agoThere's still some occasional activity on KOTH. http://www.koth.org/koth.html http://www.koth.org/koth.html The various hills: Last battle concluded at : Wed Feb 28 11:12:29 UTC 2024 Last battle concluded at : Sun Mar 31 23:34:21 UTC 2024 Last battle concluded at : Sun Mar 31 23:31:47 UTC 2024 Last battle concluded at : Fri Feb 2 12:56:46 UTC 2024 Last battle concluded at : Sun Mar 31 14:14:39 UTC 2024 Last battle concluded at : Tue Jan 3 18:37:10 UTC 2023 '88 standard doesn't seem to be as popular as the '94 standard. http://www.koth.org/info.html http://www.koth.org/info.html has scans of the original article.
- Instantnoodl 3y agoCorewars is great and was my first contact with programming when I was a child, as my father was (and still is) a very active member of its small community. I also won two youth computer science contests with a topic about corewar. It's very dear to my heart and probably what ignited my love for programming overall and changed the course of my whole life :)
- wood_spirit 3y agoAh where does the community hang out these days? My memory is that it used to be some irc and a lot of an email group, but memory too fuzzy.