[Coco] Darwin, Corewar, Network Tierra,...

[Andrew]

I am sure I have ran across all of those at some point in my life; most 
certainly Corewars (probably have the issue of SciAm that was in 
somewhere), and let's see - Network Tierra (a bunch of machines 
simulating a cellular process?) - yeah, that's it; it was mentioned in 
Kurzweil's "Age of Spiritual Machines", and Darwin, IIRC, was a 
graphical game for the mac for selection and such?

Nope! Missed that one - actually, that one sounds new to me (may have 
come across it somewhere, but never followed up) - I do recognize the 
names of the authors. Not sure what I was thinking about, but it was a 
"game" where "lifeforms" (2D stick figures of a sort) were selected by 
the player to "evolve" an ultimate life form (I think the result was in 
the center, mutations around the center that could be select?). It 
might've been something by Wolfram.

Back when I was a kid in high school I played a lot with Conway's Life 
on my CoCo, and attempted things like Corewars, along with other AI and 
expert-system stuff. Its still a great interest of mine, though I 
haven't pursued it much beyond reading lately. Right now I am going thru 
Kurzweil's series in-order; that's my bedtime reading.

Thanks for posting the links; even seeing them again (and learning 
something new), they are great links!

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona


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> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 17:46:22 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Adam Young <ay235 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [Coco] Darwin, Corewar, Network Tierra,...
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> All,
> 
> I just joined this mailing list and wanted to say hello to
> everyone. I have read a couple of messages already and I am
> humbled by the hardware expertise in this forum!
> 
> I think the 6809 is the cleanest and most well-thought
> out hybrid 8/16 bit processor there ever was and this has turned
> me into a bit of a coconut over the years. I am doing some research
> with my former faculty advisor and others that employs a 6809
> virtual machine and I'd like to go over it at some point.
> But before getting into that, has everyone here heard of Darwin,
> Corewar, and/or Network Tierra?
> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corewar
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28programming_game%29
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tierra_%28computer_simulation%29
> 
> regards,
> 
> Adam Young
> 
> www.cryptovirology.com