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Re: How are you killing imps?

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From: Thomas Wang
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:42
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>(Wayne Edward Sheppard) writes:
>I'm just curious as to what is the general consensus on how to 
>kill imps?  Do you use an agressive coreclear with a mod of #2667?
>Or do you end your coreclear in a gate?  Or do you use a different
>method?

An observation, if you bomb the tail end of an imp spiral with a dorky imp
(mov 0, <1), the whole train will die.  The tricky part is to locate it.

Negative imp (mov 0, -1) is also an interesting type of bomb.

A third observation.  Imp erases your program downwards, so you can set up
something like this for single process type fighters:

 mov bomb, -10
 add #10,  -1
 jmp -2            ; just regular bomber part
 mov bomb, 0       ; imp defender part
 mov bomb, 0
 mov bomb, 0       ; try to out-run an imp
 mov bomb, -2
 jmp -1,   <-3
bomb
 dat #0,   #0

 -Thomas Wang           (Everything is an object.)           wang@cup.hp.com

>Wayne Edward Sheppard
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From: wang@hpcupt1.cup.hp.com (Thomas Wang)
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 01:42:24 GMT
Subject: Re: How are you killing imps?
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