Short note

now it's possible to create a custom written creature in micropond.
When disabling all mutation (that's easy, just comment a few #defines), micropond can be used like corewars :-)

It's replicating

Hi everybody.
Today for the first time, life from one micropond application, replicated itself to another computer over the network. This is quite cool. You can always test it out yourself, but you have to compile from svn.
The userinterface for the network is far from complete, but it "works".

By the way, i corrected the bug where the random numbers where not "realy" random. The bug came from qrand() which is threadsafe and uses rand_r(). It seems like the rand_r() random number generator has a random number sequence that is much smaller than the one of rand(). Now i use rand() directly, even if it's not thread safe. I hope nothing bad happens because of this (until now i had no problems).

So, have fun watching the creatures evolve :-)

Hello World

Hi,

this is my first blog post ever.
I will try to keep everybody updated about my developements with micropond and printruler, and perhaps other applications yet to come.