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Kill -9 Bill

scarybug

on Oct. 2, 2006

Some of you may recognize that the assembly code on the assembly line is actually RedCode, despite being green. RedCode is the simulated Assembly Language used in Core War (or CoreWars), the ancient game of gladiator-style computer program combat from whence this comic got its subtitle. The particular program that the assemblyman is trying to load into the core is a version of Mice, which is very good at self-replication.

For more simulated computer programs figting for survival, you may want to check out Biots, an Artificial Life program of my own creation. I've been fiddling with it lately, there are crazy plant/animal hybrids in the new version. I'm also working on adding zombies as a simulation of disease.