Author: Donald Gerue
Date: 10:43:12 06/06/03
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Good Morning: Somewhere in the attic I have my notes on the first relocation of sargon from the original Trs 80 to the disk based trs 80. It had the complete source code with the relocation notes. I suppose I could find it for you if it would be a great help. One of the reasons that the source code may be difficult to find is that the author ( Spracklin) wrote it directly into assembly language for the trs 80 as there was no assembler at that time that h had access to that would do the job would do the job for him. Don Gerue On June 05, 2003 at 16:14:54, JW de Kort wrote: >On June 04, 2003 at 18:56:19, Peter Fendrich wrote: > >>On June 04, 2003 at 16:52:11, JW de Kort wrote: >> >>>On June 04, 2003 at 16:47:37, Peter Fendrich wrote: >>> >>>>On June 04, 2003 at 16:14:51, JW de Kort wrote: >>>> >>>>>HI, >>>>> >>>>>In byte magazine 1978 (i think) a series of articles was publiced concerning the >>>>>source code of the Sargon Chess program. Can anybody tell me if these articles >>>>>are somewhere to be found on the net? >>>>> >>>>>regards >>>>>Jan Willem >>>> >>>>I have them on paper and it was not the real Sargon program but something called >>>>Sargon 0.5 written in Pascal inspired from the real Sargon. >>>> >>>>/Peter >>> >>>Thanx Peter, >>> >>>I think there also were some articles in Z80 machine language. I had one, but >>>unfortunately me little son got hold of it tore it into pieces. >>> >>>Jan Willem >> >>Ok, my memory fooled me! I digged it out from the dust and the article was: >>"First Steps in Computer Chess Programming" BYTE October 1978. >>and the program described is written in Z-80 assembler. >>If you still are interested and mail me your physical address so... >>But the link you got seems to cover it all. >> >>I mixed up this aticle with another one from Oct 1978 - Jan 1979: >>"Creating a Chess Player" Peter Frew and Larry Atkin. >>The program here was Chess 0.5 in Pasacal inspired from Chess 4.5. >> >>I have that too on paper. :-) >> >>/Peter > > >Thank you Peter for your effort. I chesked the link and it is very impressive. >BTW i have the book in printed form. I bought it once in a decond hans show for >about $1 (equivalent). I thought i once read an article about how they >implemented SEE, that was what i was interested in. Studying this machine >language makes it very hard to understand. But i think my memory failed me on >this one. The article you mention used to be in my archives as well until my >littel son got hold of it. > >thanks again, > >Jan Willem
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