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by saurik 481 days ago
In 2006, Symantec ran a programming competition of sorts for University students, where you had to write code for a tiny bot that was trying to collect as many resources as possible from the game map. What made it particularly interesting was that one of the features of the instruction set was a peek/poke operation that would let you modify the memory of other bots, letting you try to break them and take control of them to help your cause.

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