Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 14:21:00 10/15/01
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On October 15, 2001 at 16:57:54, Terry McCracken wrote: >On October 15, 2001 at 12:22:58, leonid wrote: > >>On October 14, 2001 at 22:55:30, Terry McCracken wrote: >> >>>I then gave it to my Mach III Master in Jan. 1990, it took it 2 min. 45 seconds >>>if I'm not mistaken. >> >>What is the Mach III Master? Some kind of stand alone electronic chess game? >>If it is what I think, the last time when I had something similar was around 13 >>years ago. Then it was Radio Shack made gadget. >> >> >>>Better time than me!;-) >> >>Try to put from time to time here some position from real life, like the last >>forced mate. It is fun to solve them. >> >>Leonid. >> >>>Terry > >Yes it was a stand alone unit, made by Fidelity Electronics. Dan Spracklen was >the Key programmer. > >This was the last programme he made for Fidelity Electronics, the Mach IV Master >was the same programme just on faster hardware, a Motorola 68200 32bit at 20 >Mgh. while the Mach III was running on a 68000 16bit at 16 Mgh., as Hegner & >Glasser (Mephisto) bought them out in the fall of '89. >Another thing many might not know was the Mach III programme was written in 8bit >code and adapted to 16:) Those were the days! > >I should look at some of my old games I use to play with this machine and my old >Novag Super Forte "C" running on a 6502 8bit at 6 Mgh. (Boy that's Slow!) and >see if I can dig up some old mating attacks, some which were long. > >I was better I think in those days!;-) > >Terry I also had the Mach III Master _and_ the Super Forte and played them against each other. I sold the Mach III not that long ago. I still have the Super Forte. Another machine in the same category as both of these units as far as physical size, features, price, and rating was the Mephisto Mondial, which I also still have. The three boxes were quite close in strength in my tests. Just think of the trouble we used to go through in those days to test these boxes with games against each other or with test suites! And you'd have to write down the moves by hand (I did have [still do?] the move printer for the Novag). Things sure have gotten a lot easier!
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