Author: José Carlos
Date: 11:10:17 04/05/04
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On April 05, 2004 at 05:40:23, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On April 04, 2004 at 08:16:40, stegner, jamie wrote: > >> >>Contrary to our popular(or professional?) belief, CYRUS(1985) was NOT written >>by Richard Lang(Genius). He says. Here's an e-mail from Richard, posted as i >>previously promised to him to do so: > >[snip] > >>The Cyrus that I wrote ran on the Z80 processor but not on the Intel 80x86. > > >I always thought it was that Cyrus on the Z80 when people mentioned it. Gosh I >feel old now. :) I had Cyrus for the Amstrad CPC464 back then. The 2D-board was >very nice and smooth. I loved to play tons of blitz games against it and back >then I even had chances to win a game once in a while. I wish I could play that >now under a CPC-emulator for Linux/Mac. :) > >Sargon (name comes from SargonIII for the Amiga - my most favourite engine) Damn, getting old here too! I had Cyrus on the Amstrad, and also Colossus 4.0 and Masterchess and 3D Voice Chess and... I think I had one or two more... I even wrote a chess program back then in BASIC. It shouldn't be called exactly a chess program 'cause it didn't play legal chess. I recall the first time I played it: f1b5+ ...thinking... e8e9!! José C.
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