Author: William H Rogers
Date: 16:50:11 03/19/05
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On March 19, 2005 at 16:25:33, Terry Giles wrote: >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 Hi Terry I remember that program. The very first computer program to play chess on PC, ie Apple, Radio Shack, and Commadore was written by Peter Jennings. The original code was 1K and with graphics it grew to 4K on the R.S. machine. It was also ported to some hand-held devices. I think one of the was called "kim". My point is this program still runs today and on a PC. It was transportable. Bill
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