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Subject: Re: Richard says: CYRUS was not written by me.

Author: William Bryant

Date: 17:02:55 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)

My first chess program was Sargon III for the Mac.  One of the first Mac
programs available for the original 128k Mac's.  Still have the original program
disks, the original box and all the stuff in the box,
 and the machine.

William



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