Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 05:16:06 06/01/05
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On June 01, 2005 at 04:37:04, Stan Arts wrote: >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.) Got it compiled with gpc (GNU pascal compiler) and it "runs", but the move syntax is some kind of screwed up descriptive notation. It could be the OCR process made some workable typos or some of the program is missing. You can't actually enter a valid move, so it makes a move for you. It moves instantly and you can't tell if it is doing any kind of meaningful search. There is no obvious command table. I can't make heads or tails of it. One would need to study it a little to fix it up. > >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
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