Author: Heiner Marxen
Date: 10:37:12 04/03/01
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On April 03, 2001 at 06:15:46, Paul wrote: >On April 03, 2001 at 05:54:27, Tony Werten wrote: > >>On April 02, 2001 at 17:41:59, William H Rogers wrote: >> >>>On April 02, 2001 at 15:57:04, Mark Loftus wrote: >>> >>>>I was recently reading about the Slate/Atkin programs, Chess 3.X and Chess 4.X >>>>and their fine tournament performances in the 1970s. I'd like to know if there >>>>ever was a Chess 1.0 or 2.0 and if there are any available games from them. >>>> >>>>Mark Loftus >>> >>>The source for Chess x.5 has been available for years. >>>Bill >> >>Correct. It has been published in Computer Games (I) by David Levy (editor) ISBN >>0-387-96496 >> >>Unfortunately it's completely unreadable. First because the (Pascal) code has >>not been printed in the same font as the rest of the book but in some kind of >>bad xeroxed font ( it looks like it has been faxed to ) >> >>Second because almost all variables are 2 letters big and all procedures and >>functions are 5 letters big. >> >>Tony > >I have the Chess 0.5 sources (by Peter Frey & Larry Atkin) in "The Byte Book of >Pascal" from 1979. You are right about the readability ... I've been tempted >several times to type it into my computer over the years, but couldn't bring >myself to it because of it! Does anyone know if it's available online? > >Groetjes, >Paul Oh, those old days! I just talked to an old friend, who (around 1980) did type in exactly this Pascal program. It did not run properly at first, because of a missing but crucial semicolon... that was a tough debugging job. He suspects that it could still be on one of those old magtapes, but we don't know where we could find a magtape drive... so: sorry, it is not available online, here. Heiner
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