Historic archive of IOCCC winning entries

Historic archives as bz2 compressed tarballs

WARNING: These historic archives contain lots of code that will no longer compile, contains lots of typos, has broken links, has missing files, and contains many programs that will not run in modern systems.

These archives provided for historic purposes and are NOT RECOMMENDED for casual viewing.

Instead of using these archives, you should use the code from the Winning Entries and related links.

• archive-all.tar.bz2
• archive-1984.tar.bz2
• archive-1985.tar.bz2
• archive-1986.tar.bz2
• archive-1987.tar.bz2
• archive-1988.tar.bz2
• archive-1989.tar.bz2
• archive-1990.tar.bz2
• archive-1991.tar.bz2
• archive-1992.tar.bz2
• archive-1993.tar.bz2
• archive-1994.tar.bz2
• archive-1995.tar.bz2
• archive-1996.tar.bz2
• archive-1998.tar.bz2
• archive-2000.tar.bz2
• archive-2001.tar.bz2
• archive-2004.tar.bz2
• archive-2005.tar.bz2
• archive-2006.tar.bz2
• archive-2011.tar.bz2
• archive-2012.tar.bz2
• archive-2013.tar.bz2
• archive-2014.tar.bz2
• archive-2015.tar.bz2
• archive-2018.tar.bz2
• archive-2019.tar.bz2
• archive-2020.tar.bz2

Notes on these archives

These zip2 compressed tarballs were preserved as an archive of the winning source code that was available on the official IOCCC web site as of 2020 Dec 28. These zip2 compressed tarballs represent the “released” IOCCC winning source, as modified by the IOCCC judges and winning authors as of 2020 Dec 28.

You might wish to note that the archive/historic/archive-all.tar.bz2 file found in this archive produces a somewhat newer version of the released IOCCC source for 1984, 1985, 1986 and 1987 in that the winning entries for those years were still found in single year directories. Thus the archive/historic/archive-1984.tar.bz2, archive/historic/archive-1985.tar.bz2, archive/historic/archive-1986.tar.bz2, archive/historic/archive-1987.tar.bz2, zip2 compressed tarballs represent a somewhat earlier form of the “released” IOCCC winning source for those years. This a somewhat earlier set of IOCCC winning source may be found in the archive/archive-YYYY.tar.bz2 files.

In addition the archive/archive-all.tar.bz2 file has a slightly newer version of the 2011 rules and guidelines. as well as a newer version of 2012/tromp hint files.

For your convenience we keep an archive of the zip2 compressed tarballs as found in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine as of [2022 Dec 28)(https://web.archive.org/web/20201228005211/https://www.ioccc.org/).

How to unpack

HINT: To uncompress a given bzip2 compressed tarball file, use:

    tar -jxvf file.tar.bz2

where “file.tar.bz2” is the name of a file found in this directory.

To uncompress all of the 2022 Dec 28 archive using the year based bzip2 compressed tarball files:

    for year in 198{4,5,6,7,8,9} 199{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,8} 200{0,1,4,5,6} 201{1,2,3,4,5,8,9} 2020; do
        rm -rf "$year"
        tar -jxvf "archive-$year.tar.bz2"
    done