Svenesis.orgSoftware Archive – Open-Source Programs
Historic programs from the 1980s
This archive contains old programs that I wrote together with my friend Arne Erik Toepper in the 1980s. The programs were developed in Turbo Pascal 3.0 for MS-DOS and are available here both as source code and as interactive browser versions.
Wa-Tor 2.12 – Ecosystem Simulation (1985)
Wa-Tor is a toroidal water world inhabited by two species: fish and sharks. The simulation models a simple ecosystem based on the predator-prey principle. Fish feed on unlimited plankton, while sharks hunt fish. The world is displayed as a 32×14 torus grid — anything leaving one edge reappears on the opposite side.
| Authors: | Sven Ramuschkat & Arne Erik Toepper |
| Language: | Turbo Pascal 3.0 |
| Platform: | IBM PC / MS-DOS |
| Year: | 1985 |
DAMI – Core War Interpreter (1985)
DAMI (Digital Art Mars Interpreter) is an implementation of the programming game Core War. Two programs (warriors) compete in a shared circular memory of 2000 cells. Each program tries to destroy the other by causing it to execute an invalid instruction. The interpreter supports 9 instructions (DAT, MOV, ADD, SUB, JMP, JMZ, JMG, DJZ, CMP) with three addressing modes.
| Authors: | Sven Ramuschkat & Arne Erik Toepper |
| Language: | Turbo Pascal 3.0 |
| Platform: | IBM PC / MS-DOS |
| Year: | 1985 |