Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 15:25:45 05/02/01
First a word about Comet. My congrats to Ulrich. I do not even remember the one hour test and less if it is telling or not of the playing strenght, but surely I can appreciate that his program is getting more acumen, version after version. He goes deeper, faster and has a lot better evaluation. I had felt that at my own cost. BTW, probably Comet is the program with the highest rate of new deliveries ever, some times for substancial upgrades, other times for just bug fixes. How many? More than 50, I believe. This incredible and steady work deserves an applause. If only Ulrich would decide one day to make it windows, as much as being a DOS program it has the unpleasant penchant to disorganize the screen display after being unloaded. Then Ron nelson. I wonder how many people here remember that name. I myself thought he was retired. Maybe even deceased. My God... Well, Ron Nelson was the inventor of Fidelity computers in the 70's, in fact the programmer behind Fidelity Challenger 3 to 8, plus Voice Challenger with and withoput sensory board. Then the Spracklen team arrived and the star of Mr Nelson seemed to fade. But it is not so. He is alive and kicking. After some questions related with the man behind current Excalibur stuff, that I believed were refurbished old Spracklen programs, the member of this site, Mr Krantack, has received an email by Nelson - which I discover here as much Nelson himself has talked about this in other site- in which he tell that he and only he is the author of, by example, LCD Excalibur engine. What is more, he say with great force that He is the owner of the program, not Excalibur, and that is not light feat to get so much from such a tiny device. He say LCd program has not more than 16 Kb ram and run at 6 Mhz. He insist that too many people has has been "brainwashed" with huge processor. Clearly he is proud with his work and in fact he has the right; after all he is getting a lot more perfomance from these tiny devices that what he got in the 70's, when he was 30 years younger. Sure even the tiny thing is more powerful than the Zylog procesor -or similar- he used in the Challenger family, but even so it is a happy new to know about his longevity in a field where from one day to another great personalities just disappear. Fernando
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