---
name: "corewars"
section: "6"
platform: "linux"
package: "corewars"
version: "0.9.13-1+b2"
release: "Debian 5.0 (Lenny)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/corewars"
---

# corewars(6)

play corewars

## NAME

corewars, corewars-cmd - play corewars

## SYNOPSIS

**corewars** \[standard X options\]\
 **corewars-cmd** \[command line options\] files...\

## DESCRIPTION

Core Wars is a simulation game. A number of programs are loaded into a virtual machine and executed. The programs can to crash each other,  manipulate other programs, overwrite as much memory as they can, etc... The "best" program is selected according to a scoring mechanism which involves the number of memory cells the program has overwritten, the  number of other programs it has crashed and whether/when it crashed.\
 Two different languages are supported. The one called **Corewars** is easy to learn and described in the **README** file. The second language,  called **Redcode**, is harder to learn but also more powerful.

## OPTIONS

Use **corewars-cmd --help** to get a list of supported command line options.\

## AUTHORS

This manual page was written by Michael Vogt \<mvogt@acm.org\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was extended by Walter hofmann \<walterh@gmx.de\>.