LP Hill: Achillu 94 has been pushed off at age 48

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Hi all.

My outsider LP warrior "I KILL U" (written in Redcode 86) had been
pushed off at age 39; its descendant warrior "Achillu 94" survived 9
more challenges

The strategy behind this warrior is the same as its ancestor: the
"start" loop keeps on creating copies of the whole warrior, while the
"loop" loop is a .33c dwarf style bomber.

If there are enough processes, the new copy is activated, and again if
there are enough processes, the bomber is activated too. The warrior
is not a "pure" paper, in the sense that the new copy may not be
activated; anyway, copies of the warrior keep on being created, just
in case one or more of the active copies dies, freeing the process(es)
needed for the new activation.

I just sent the warrior to Koenigstuhl, so feel free to find better
variants (say use a more modern bomber, or use jmp instead of spl at
the end of the copy part - this will save 2 instructions, and leaves
the old copy behind instead of freezing the process in that limited
part of the core).

Best regards.
LAchi.

;redcode-lp
;name Achillu 94
;author LAchi + Fizmo
;strategy Say it "I KILL U".
;strategy This is just I KILL U rewritten by Fizmo in Redcode-94.
;strategy New constants, some corecoloring and an additional
quickscanner.
;strategy Thanks for retuning and rewriting.
;assert CORESIZE==8000

count dat 0, 0
dat 0, 0
ind dat 0, 0

start spl loop, <7692
mov #4242, count
again mov #bomb-ind+1, ind
copy mov @ind, <count
djn copy, ind
spl @count, <2876
add #6902, count
jmp again, <3078

dat 0, 0

loop add.ab #69, bomb
mov bomb, @bomb
djn.f loop, <640
dat 0, 0
bomb dat <1, {293

for 56
dat 0, 0
rof

zero equ qbomb
qtab3 equ qbomb

qbomb dat >qoff, >qc2
dat 0, 0

dat 0, <qb1
qtab2 dat 0, <qb2
dat 0, <qb3

for 16
dat 0, 0
rof

dat zero - 1, qa1
qtab1 dat zero - 1, qa2

for 42
dat 0, 0
rof

qc2 equ ((1 + (qtab3-qptr)*qy) % CORESIZE)
qb1 equ ((1 + (qtab2-1-qptr)*qy) % CORESIZE)
qb2 equ ((1 + (qtab2-qptr)*qy) % CORESIZE)
qb3 equ ((1 + (qtab2+1-qptr)*qy) % CORESIZE)
qa1 equ ((1 + (qtab1-1-qptr)*qy) % CORESIZE)
qa2 equ ((1 + (qtab1-qptr)*qy) % CORESIZE)
qz equ 2108
qy equ 243
qgo sne qptr + qz*qc2, qptr + qz*qc2 + qb2
seq <qtab3, qptr + qz*(qc2-1) + qb2
jmp q0, }q0
sne qptr + qz*qa2, qptr + qz*qa2 + qb2
seq <qtab1, qptr + qz*(qa2-1) + qb2
jmp q0, {q0
sne qptr + qz*qa1, qptr + qz*qa1 + qb2
seq <(qtab1-1), qptr + qz*(qa1-1) + qb2
djn.a q0, {q0
sne qptr + qz*qb3, qptr + qz*qb3 + qb3
seq <(qtab2+1), qptr + qz*(qb3-1) + (qb3-1)
jmp q0, }q1
sne qptr + qz*qb1, qptr + qz*qb1 + qb1
seq <(qtab2-1), qptr + qz*(qb1-1) + (qb1-1)
jmp q0, {q1
sne qptr + qz*qb2, qptr + qz*qb2 + qb2
seq <qtab2, qptr + qz*(qb2-1) + (qb2-1)
jmp q0
seq >qptr, qptr + qz + (qb2-1)
jmp q2, <qptr
seq qptr+(qz+1)*(qc2-1),qptr+(qz+1)*(qc2-1)+(qb2-1)
jmp q0, }q0
seq qptr+(qz+1)*(qa2-1),qptr+(qz+1)*(qa2-1)+(qb2-1)
jmp q0, {q0
seq qptr+(qz+1)*(qa1-1),qptr+(qz+1)*(qa1-1)+(qb2-1)
djn.a q0, {q0
jmz.f start, qptr + (qz+1)*(qb2-1) + (qb2-1)
qoff equ -87
qstep equ -7
qtime equ 14
q0 mul.b *2, qptr
q2 sne {qtab1, @qptr
q1 add.b qtab2, qptr
mov qtab3, @qptr
qptr mov qbomb, }qz
sub #qstep, qptr
djn -3, #qtime
jmp start
end qgo