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Subject: Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available

Author: Stan Arts

Date: 01:37:04 06/01/05

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Hi Ian, thanks for the link.

It seems like a large (and unreadable) program for it's day. (before my time,
i wasn't even born yet.)

Is there a working executable available? (Can't get it to work with FreePascal,
because of those intra-procedure goto's. ..but can hardly blame a compiler for
that. Procedure parameters are still modern though in Pascal, if we mean the
same.)

Greetings
Stan



On May 31, 2005 at 21:30:22, Ian Osgood wrote:

>Over on news:comp.lang.pascal, someone has unearthed the Peter Frey and Larry
>Atkin Chess 0.5 source that was published in Byte Magazine back in 1978.
>They've OCRed the source and managed to get it running on the GNU Pascal
>compiler (which still supports that ancient ISO Pascal dialect, including
>procedure parameters and intra-procedure gotos[?!]).
>
>Might be an interesting walk down memory lane...
>
>http://www.moorecad.com/standardpascal/misc.html
>
>Ian

• Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available Matthew Hull 05:16:06 06/01/05
  • Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available Robert Hyatt 11:38:28 06/02/05
    • Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available Matthew Hull 13:36:55 06/02/05
      • Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available Robert Hyatt 07:52:40 06/03/05
        • Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available Matthew Hull 10:51:26 06/03/05
  • Re: 1978 Byte Magazine Chess 0.5 Pascal source available Ian Osgood 10:16:49 06/01/05

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