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Subject: Re: Amusing errors to Sargon 4

Author: Mike S.

Date: 11:43:40 08/05/02

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On August 04, 2002 at 19:33:04, Alessandro Damiani wrote:

>(...)

>If I remember it right the Sphinx was written by IM David Levy. I read about
>Levy's try and the poor performance of his creations.

No... it would probably be difficult to guess, but: The Sphinx Dominator program
is by *Frans Morsch*.

That computer had only a 6502 cpu at 4 MHz, main reason why it couldn't score
better. But it was better than many others with the same 8bit cpu. But the main
thing was the good value/price ratio, with 64 square LEDs and 2 displays.

Regards,
M.Scheidl



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