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A N T W A R S
Program by Knees Calhoon
and Ron Slaminko
Text by Dave Moorman
and Fender Tucker
Ron Slaminko found a bug in the
code while the Black Ants are
thinking. Since one should never bug
an ant, Ron set out to locate and
eradicate it.
And he was successful. So once
again, here is Ant Wars -- ready to
challenge your instincts.
DMM
[Fender writes:]
This is a game that I wrote a
long time ago, around 1993, I think.
And it's a good thing; I've forgotten
much of the programming knowledge
that I had back then. It's an ancient
game played by Chinese children with
stones and lines in the dirt. I can't
remember the name of the game but I
got the rules and history from
Scientific American, where it had a
write-up in the Games section.
The rules are simple. You and
Knees take turns placing one ant at a
time into the 21 "rooms" of the
anthill. Yours are red and Knees' are
black. If, after an ant is played,
one or more of the opponent's ants
are completely surrounded by his
opponent's ants, the surrounded ants
are removed from the board -- and
from the player's starting supply of
25 ants. A player [cannot] play into
a spot where he will be surrounded.
Players try to end up with the most
ants. Sooner or later, one player
will win or there will be a tie.
FT