Author: Terry Giles
Date: 13:46:37 03/19/05
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On March 19, 2005 at 16:25:33, Terry Giles wrote: >On March 19, 2005 at 13:42:26, William H Rogers wrote: > >>I have been playing multiple tournements lately and am now in the process of >>playing tournements with programs written in Basic. >>In passing I found that I have a very old program written for the Radio Shack >>Model 100 portable computer. RS Basic saves programs in a tokenized fashion so >>the occupy the least amount of space. In this case the program was only about 4k >>long. When converted to QBasic and expanded it now occupies about 8k. >>It does not follow 50 move rule or the 3 move repetition and I am not sure if >>allows captures enpassant but for a tiny program it plays fairley well. >>I am not sure how to post the program here or I would. If anyone is interested >>then maybe they can show me how to post the program here. >>Bill > > >Hi Bill, > >Back in the days of the 8 bit processor and particularly the Zilog Z80 a >software company named Artic Computing created a Chess program which was fully >functional in 1K of RAM for the Sinclair ZX80/81 computer. Bearing in mind that >the ZX80/81 computer used a bit of that 1K RAM for its own uses, it is a marvel >that they managed this feat! > >Terry Giles The program was written by David Horne and actually only had 672 bytes of memory at its disposal! Terry Giles
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