---
title: "Core War for QL"
type: "article"
slug: "core-war-for-ql"
url: "http://localhost/article/core-war-for-ql/"
markdown_url: "http://localhost/article/core-war-for-ql.md"
published_at: "2026-03-15T00:48:11+00:00"
modified_at: "2026-03-15T00:48:12+00:00"
featured_image:
  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Documentation and SuperBASIC listing for a Core War game implementation on the Sinclair QL, in which competing programs battle for control of memory. This was a popular programming challenge of the era, originally described in Scientific American."
category:
  - name: "Timelinez"
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    taxonomy: "category"
    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/timelinez/"
post_tag:
  - name: "QL"
    slug: "ql"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ql/"
  - name: "Superbasic (programming language)"
    slug: "superbasic-programming-language"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/superbasic-programming-language/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
    slug: "type-in-program"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Sinclair QL"
    slug: "sinclair-ql"
    taxonomy: "model"
    url: "http://localhost/model/sinclair-ql/"
indiv:
  - name: "Tim Swenson"
    slug: "tim-swenson"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/tim-swenson/"
publication_r:
  id: 21571
  title: "Timelinez"
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  url: "http://localhost/periodical/timelinez/"
authors_r:
  - name: "Tim Swenson"
    slug: "tim-swenson"
    taxonomy: "indiv"
    url: "http://localhost/indiv/tim-swenson/"
volume: "7"
issue: "2"
issues_articles:
  - id: 38867
    title: "Timelinez v7 n2"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/timelinez-v7-n2/"
pages: "5"
pubdate: "February 1989"
archive_link: false
---

Documentation and SuperBASIC listing for a Core War game implementation on the Sinclair QL, in which competing programs battle for control of memory. This was a popular programming challenge of the era, originally described in Scientific American.