Author: William H Rogers
Date: 08:56:04 04/05/00
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On April 04, 2000 at 16:18:53, Christophe Theron wrote: >On April 04, 2000 at 14:14:07, William H Rogers 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. >> >>The smallest program, and it is probably the one you posses was written by Peter >>Jennings. It was originally written for a hand held 6502 in machine language and >>later ported to the TRS-80 (4k), > > >What was the name of this program under TRS-80? Was it MicroChess? I had this >program, and it was indeed the only one able to run on my first TRS-80 (which >had about 3.5K available for applications). > > > Christophe Yes it was MicroChess, three plys and rated about 650. > > > >> the Apple and the Comodore. It came on a >>cassette tape and sold over one million copies. Peter Jennings retired to >>Canada. >>The smallest program written in Basic (GW or Radio Shack) was about 4K. >>I have copies of them. >>Bill
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