Author: Pete Galati
Date: 21:13:26 04/04/00
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On April 04, 2000 at 22:56:04, James T. Walker wrote: >On April 04, 2000 at 13:49:33, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On April 04, 2000 at 11:52:17, Kim Roper Jensen wrote: >> >>> >>>Just remembered that in the "old" days when i has my Spectrum 48K ( OHH yes a >>>real power beast :) ) i had a chess program, that was approx. 1KB in size, it >>>played real bad , but then again 1KB, what can you expect. >>> >>>Has anyone seen smaller programs, or what is the smallest you ever seen ? >>> >>>Kim Roper. >>I was going to say that the smallest Chess program that I have at the moment is >>Mychess by David Kittinger 51Kb, but I looked closer, and I have a GWbasic Chess >>program that's only 20.9Kb, it's origin is somewhat unclear. I'd be glad to >>pass it on, but you need GW basic to run it. GWbasic makes Qbasic seem like >>Windows95, so I wouldn't recommend it. >> >>Can anyone top 20.9? >> >>Pete > >I know that the original "Atari 2600" game had a chess cartridge which I believe >was only 4k of memory including the graphics. I met the authors and they had a >6K and an 8K version for personal use/testing but I don't think they ever became >commercial. >Jim Walker I guess they couldn't manage to sell the 1 piece tablebase idea, who would know back then. 4k, impressive. I have an old "Compute" magazine from '84 that has all sorts of basic code, a game called "Reflection" for different kinds of basic on different computers, but no Chess code, and I looked thought this thing several times looking for someone who sold Chess programs back then, couldn't find anyone. That was mildly irritating. Pete
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