Bugzilla Bug 40738

well well well..

pmars is is one of those corewar programs:

"Core War is a game played by two or more programs (and vicariously by their
authors) written in an assembly language called Redcode and run in a virtual
computer called MARS (for Memory Array Redcode Simulator). The object of the
game is to cause all processes of the opposing program to terminate, leaving
your program in sole posession of the machine." (as stated in the rec.games.corewar faq)

in fact it belongst to the more popular ones in the scene (information: http://www.corewar.info, http://www.koth.org) because of its redcode debugging features, etc..

I am well aware that there already is a corewars program in portage, namely hoffmann's "corewars" (^^), yet i think that pmars is lacking, as the more popular and standard compliant (icws'94) mars program available.

pmars-sdl (http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/jpihlaja/cw/pmars-sdl/index.html) is a pmars sdl port, based on the pmars sourceforge project by Anton Marsden (http://sourceforge.net/projects/corewar/). it supports sdl, X11 and svgalib.

suggested is games-simulation/pmars-sdl (since the other "corewars" is located there)

brx

Reproducible: Always
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Created an attachment (id=25136) [edit]
pmars-sdl-0.9.2e.ebuild (new package)

Created an attachment (id=25148) [edit]
pmars-sdl-0.9.2e.ebuild (New Package)

Needs to use the games eclass and the official gentoo header from $PORTDIR.
Also, src_unpack needs some love.  Check some of the other games ebuilds for
ideas.

Created an attachment (id=25187) [edit]
pmars-sdl-0.9.2e.ebuild (some fixes..)

games-simulation/pmars-sdl added to CVS.  Thanks for the bug report and ebuild.