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Hills

Hills are constantly on-going tournaments; hill is a place where 20 warriors (or 25, depending on hill configuration) are stored, waiting for a new program to meet them in a challenge. If new warrior scores better than worst one from the hill, it gets onto the hill. To get a better picture, it's recommened you check out koth.org s 94nop hill.

All hills have specific rules one must follow to make warrior capable of challenging the hill. It is recommended you read them prior to submiting your warrior to server.

koth.org home to Corewars, has active hills and useful links.
Christoph Birk's infinite hills contain hills with sources of all included there warriors.
Tiny Hill, Metcalfs favourite.
KOTH@SAL holds LP, tiny, beginners and tourney hills. Created by Joonas and Barkley.
Sourceforge yellow hills site hosts beginners hill, evolved tiny, tiny and standard 8000 cell, multiwarrior and big hills. Home to Hofmanns corewar interpreter (though not quite a redcode worth a closer look).

Homepages

Homepages are sites devoted to corewar.

John Metcalf, The Corewar Historian, included on his webpage few texts about corewar history, IRC logs and information about Sunday IRC corewar tournament.
Fizmos Ultimate Corewar Page , home to current corewar tournament & source of useful links. Frequently updated.
Joonas Pihlaja s webpage holds self-organizing maps and few tools.
Christoph Birk's webpage is not only the home of Koenigstuhl but also a great source of tutorials and links.
Will Varfar on his webpage published a nice overview of redcode interpreters. Also, you can find lot of information about evolved warriors there.
Philip Thorne created webpage with a stone analysis and few useful links.
Steve Gunnell, AKA steveg (veg rhymes with leg), also has a webpage.

Software

To play corewar, one needs a redcode interpreter, called MARS. Following sites are places where such software is stored.

pmars the generic redcode interpreter. Grab its current version from Anton Marsdens development site.
Joonas SDL port works under Linux and on Windows box as well. Featured with really nice graphics display. Joonas also programmed a very fast redcode interpreter called Exhaust which is easy to embed in your own programs.
Martin Ankerls qmars is very fast redcode simulator.
Redcoder developed by Will Varfar is at-early-stage-of-development Widows redcode interpreter with graphics display.
Chip Wendell created a native Windows redcode interpreter called Corewin. It is not only a pmars port but also an editor and benchmarking program. All you MS Windows users, check this out.