Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 05:48:32 04/29/04
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On April 29, 2004 at 04:44:44, Thorsten Czub wrote: >i bought this colossus X for PC a few years ago and i am still waiting for a new >version of collossus as an update ! > >Especially the graphics in EGA is very ugly on my LCD screen and i would like to >see a better graphics. > >after buying white knight for the Acorn BBC B i thought buying colossus 4 for >Amstrad CPC 464 would be a good idea. > >Right. Colossus 4 for Amstrad Home Computer was really stronger then White >Knight. >Only that it took very long to load the program via the cassette it came on. > >But the PC version was much faster. Only that i doubt it was stronger. > >Maybe i should consider to send the CD back and ask for my money ? >Or maybe somehow blackmail martin bryant ?? > >i will ask my lawyers. >there must be something done. I need colossus XI !! I have three different early versions of Colossus: for the Commodore, CPC Amstrad and ZX Spectrum, plus White Knight for the BBC Acorn. The Commodore version (running on a 6502C CPU at 1Mhz!) was the fastest, while the Amstrad Colossus edition was rather slow and disappointing. It was the first program that I tried to play real blitz against and kept score for a while until I was able to beat it really badly. But at that time I was sure it was rated about 1800. In the booklet I have the scores of matches Colossus won against other programs, such as Mychess, Sargon, etc. Colossus had a superb box that the program was shipped in: with a beautiful picture of a Knight and the caption said something like "the best chess program available on any home computer..." (CDS Software); the chess graphics were cool, just like newspaper chess diagrams, and the commands intuitive. It had a great mate-solver too (did self-mates as well). Would be great if we really had a new PC version :-)
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