Varfar's RedCoder

Contents

1. What is it?
2. Screenshot!
3. Feature status
4. Download
5. Which Mars? - if you are interested in programming and specifically in programming Mars emulators, you might be interested in a quick summary I wrote to myself to stop me forgetting what I found when I dug up all the sourcecode I could find..

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RedCoder has been superceded by Redcoder 2, which is a new fresh complete reimplementation of the feature-set that set this Original Redcoder apart; and like this Redcoder, Redcoder 2 isn't finished either!

What is it?

RedCoder is a graphical MARS Emulator, incorporating a powerful debugger. The graphical nature should make it approachable to newcomers, while the graphical debugging might attract serious corewars devotees. Maybe. It is written in object-pascal. It runs on Windows, but might sometime be ported to Linux too.

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Screenshot!

shot1.jpg - a sneek preview showing a stone (orange) about to be assimilated by an imp (blue)
(this is a bit out of date)

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Feature status

In rough order they will be tackled

-	Proper load from dialog, random starting positions
-	Debug the MARS Emulator
-	Add debugging options such as 'follow thread' and 'follow process'
-	Add support for PSpace (PINs etc), and decide on a nice way to show this in debug
50%	Breakpoints, and conditional breakpoints; just needs the dialogs and a break-on-read (trickier)
-	Proper Redcode assembly parser, rather than the preprocessed one
-	Integrated editing, syntax highlighting
-	Reference arrows in debug views
-	Editable core
-	Fast run mode
-	Analyser, optimizer, gene-identifier

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Download

1. redcoder-0.6-sneek.zip (20021127, ~311k) - a sneek preview of progress so-far
   (win32 only, runs from the commandline, read the README.txt and read just run "RedCoder" to see the parameters)

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