nMars - Core War MARS for .NET

nMars is engine, compiler and IDE for programming game called Core War.

Overview

• nMars has console interface and graphical IDE
• Under cover are running Parser, Engine and Debugger components
• It can be ensembled with Python shell, Unit tests and pMars wrapper components
• All components share common nMars.RedCode library.
• You can download several packages.
• Source code could be checked out from subversion repository or browsed

Screen shots

More screenshots

Features

• It's well architected, around solid interfaces, extensible and reusable
• Engine is 100% compatible with pMars and ICWS94
• Parser is LALR grammar driven
• nMars is unit tested against pMars
• Supports most pMars commandline switches
• IDE supports projects and solutions as a setup frame for your warriors
• IDE projects containning setup of rules and options
• IDE has familiar look and feel
• Graphical debugger is asynchronous to UI, so it can run at any speed, still painting core state.
• Debugger is extended with IronPython shell
• Debugger core views are packed with information about events and status of each cell
• Debugger is capable of step back during gebugging
• All configuration is XML driven
• Target platform is .NET 2.0 or Mono in the future
• Licensed under LGPL

History

• 06/03/2007 - nMars0.9.4 - IDE on Mono/Linux (currently doesn't work on Mono again :-(
• 02/28/2007 - nMars0.9.1 - bug fixes
• 02/10/2007 - nMars0.9 - IDE with breakpoints
• 01/13/2007 - nMars0.8.3 - IDE preview released
• 11/19/2006 - nMars0.8 - debugger
• 11/13/2006 - nMars0.7 - going public, overview documents, posted to group
• 11/13/2006 - nMars0.6 - engine unit test
• 11/08/2006 - nMars0.5 - more binaries
• 11/03/2006 - nMars0.4 - pMars included
• 09/28/2006 - nMars0.3 - first binary on released
• 09/17/2006 - nMars0.2 - Parser more powerfull
• 08/12/2006 - nMars0.1 - First version

Complete list of changes

Road map

• Q2/2007 - nMars1.0 - stabilization

• ??/???? - nMars1.1 - round robin, hill, tournaments
• ??/???? - nMars1.2 - wrap fast engine
• ??/???? - nMars1.3 - evolver, optimizer

• ??/???? - nMars?.? - screensaver
• ??/???? - nMars?.? - syntax highliting in IDE
• ??/???? - nMars?.? - click on error in IDE
• ??/???? - nMars2.? - redcode syntax extensions

Complete list of wishes

Feedback

Feedback is really appreciated.

Pavel Šavara