Yes, that's Darwin from 1961 https://corewar.co.uk/darwin.htm

There's a Core War tournament in progress this week, being livestreamed on twitch https://twitch.tv/corewarglobal

Also, there are better quality scans of Dewdney's articles here https://corewar.co.uk/sciam/

Four squares solved in 7 cycles, 16 threads and overlapping code :-) https://twitter.com/john_metcalf/status/716901521036861440/

alexkus: off topic, but would you mind sending me an email about RM380Z Robot Arena? :-) gmail digital.wilderness

(sorry, I couldn't figure out how else to contact you)

There are also a couple of other computer museums open to the public in the UK, one in Swansea, the other in Leicester. I think there's also one in York which you can visit by appointment only.

Not if you take your entry to the museum on the day.

Are you going? I just wonder if it might be possible to send a delegate :-) I can not make it in person, but perhaps somebody could take my submission?

Not that I have anything ready yet, so I probably wouldn't come up with a great warrior in the short time. But it seems a shame to miss it.

I'll be there (I'm one of the organisers). If you send your program to the email on the tournament page (http://corewar.co.uk/spring2014.htm) before 23:59 GMT on 29th May I'll make sure it takes part. After that, I probably won't have net access for a couple of day.

The same offer applies to anyone else who missed the deadline.

Thank you for the offer. I only read it at 23:45pm because I am traveling. Too bad - but anyway, it's great that you organize it.

This old forgotten programming game stole my Friday afternoon! I'd be happy to run a tournament if anyone's interested :-)

As a big fan of programming games I've always wished for a decent site with information about the different games. After waiting in hope I finally gave in and created my own :-)

If you're a fan of programming games I'd love to hear from you.

Otherwise please feel free to criticise my choice of platform :-P

There's also C++Robots: http://www.gamerz.net/c++robots/

Has anyone here ever played Darwin?

They look much better with sub-pixel rendering but thanks to different sub-pixel geometries taking a screenshot doesn't really work.