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Subject: Re: Nostalgy Tournament. What about this rule?

Author: Peter Kasinski

Date: 15:07:18 12/07/97

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On December 07, 1997 at 17:50:52, Fernando Villegas wrote:

>Hi all, Peter, Karsten, Thorsten, etc...
>Looking at the programs and dedicated units each of us want to use, I
>wonder if we must specify even more the quality of competitors.  Maybe
>is not enough to put a date limit in 1989. It seems that at that date
>there were some programs far better than any dedicated unit we can put.
>I mean Psion, Rexchess, etc. No thrill if those monster participate.
>What about to limit the tournament to dedicated units, that is to say to
>real old machines? Or if programs are alouded, they should be really
>old, like commodore, atari, etc stuff or the very first PC programs,
>like sargon II or III.
>Else: any of you have Sargon III? I lost it years ago and I would love
>to get one. I think it was the very first really strong PC program. If
>somebody can send me the program thorough email, I can reciprocate with
>one of my oldies or with my warmest thanks...
>Fernando

I agree. Let's go for dedicated units and possibly old Atari or Z-80
programs running on vintage systems.

                                  PK



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