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Subject: Re: Chess Challengers, old SciSys, Novags and Mephistos

Author: Fernando Villegas

Date: 16:16:17 04/18/98

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On April 18, 1998 at 18:43:33, Karsten Bauermeister wrote:

>>Hi all:
>>I don't know what you thinks, but it seems only fair that Karsten must
>>be named the Great Scholar of Chess Computer History, the Dean of hidden
>>information, etc. And I believe I knew something about all this!
>>Nevertheless, I am sure that Kartsen wont answer the follwing question
>>for a milliond dollars: the name of an Atari program that was the
>>customization of an Slate program. I got you, Karsten...
>
>Hi Fernando,
>
>too much of honor! But I must disappoint you! The answer to the question
>above could be: "Chess 7.0" or "How about a nice game of chess"!
>The first on were available in the end of 1983, the second in 1984. I
>belive you meant the second one!
>
>I got you, Fernando, didn't I?
>
>Little question: My informations are, that both were written for the
>Apple-II, not for the Atari. Were there two versions?
>
>Karsten


Well, Karsten, I don't know if I caught you or not, because I am talking
of a program for the 8 bit atari. The name was "Odesta" and it came of
course in a 360 Kb old 5,1/4 disk. UI remember well because I was
coerced to buy anm atari disk reader to use it.
Fernando



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