Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:38:28 06/02/05
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On June 01, 2005 at 08:16:06, Matthew Hull wrote: >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. > > One point. Back when that was written and published in Byte, the common move input format was "English Descriptive". The old P-K4, N-KB3, kind of move syntax, and it probably would not accept lowercase either... :) > > >> >>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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