Talk:Core War

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Contents 1 GFDL 2 Keep User: refs out of article 3 Date of initial SciAm article 4 Instruction Set Descriptions.

[edit] GFDL

My contributions to this article may have included GFDL-licensed content from The Core War FAQ by Anton Marsden. I am not the copyright holder of such content, and therefore cannot license it under terms other than those of the GFDL. I release the rest of my contributions to this article to the public domain, however, as stated on my my user page.

(I honestly don't remember if I actually used any verbatim content from the FAQ or not. I feel this disclaimer is in order regardless. By the way, isn't there some standard template for this?) —Ilmari Karonen 14:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Keep User: refs out of article

The Beginner's Guide to Redcode by Ilmari Karonen provides an introduction to Redcode for programmers and nonprogrammers alike.

should not point to User: stuff.

Fplay 01:25, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you're absolutely correct. Back when I added the link, I didn't know that yet. Thanks for spotting it. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 01:29, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Date of initial SciAm article

William R. Buckley recently changed the date of Dewdney's first SciAm article on Core War from May to March 1984. I got the May 1984 date from the Core War FAQ, so if the change is correct, we should probably let Anton know so he can change the FAQ. I'll try to verify this at the local library as soon as possible. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 09:59, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• Ummm... that link you've given (which I believe to be the master copy) says March, as does the most recent copy posted to r.g.cw. With respect to the original edit summary, I'll give pointers to Assume Good Faith and No Personal Attacks for reasons which I think are obvious :-( Cheers --Pak21 10:45, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
  • I think I see the problem: the FAQ gives March 1984 as the publication date of the Core War Guidelines, but May as the date of the first SciAm article. It seems A Brief History of Corewar agrees with this. My impression (please correct me if I'm wrong), from reading the May 1984 article, is that the Guidelines enjoyed only limited circulation prior to the publication of the SciAm article, and so May 1984 can be considered the date when Core War was introduced to the public. In any case, I suppose the paragraph ought to be reworded for clarity. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 12:57, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

• References to the first article being published in the May 1984 Scientific American include Dewdney's CV, Dewdney's third article and Dewdney's original Core War Guidelines. Once I've looked into this, I will correct A Brief History of Corewar if necessary.

• • • • Thanks, and no hard feelings. Nice to see this issue settled. (Bzzzzzz.....) —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 13:19, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Instruction Set Descriptions.

It has been a very long time since I worked with Core War, so the material I've added is a bit halting. My notes are now buried in storage, so it will take me some time to get to updates. William R. Buckley 19:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

However, the complaint of Dbabbitt though sophomoric, does point up some deficiency in the article. The instruction sets should be fully described in the article. William R. Buckley 19:13, 5 April 2007 (UTC)