Author: Matthew Hull
Date: 13:36:55 06/02/05
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On June 02, 2005 at 14:38:28, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... :) I figured that out pretty quickly as it gave moves in that format. Also, someone posted a useful README file which provided code corrections for lowercase and ASCII board representation. However, there still seems to be a bug that prevents it from parsing user supplied moves, so it assumes you want it to make a move for you, which it does. I've never been able to enter a move successfully. It's probably easily solved, though. But I might rather study a more modern program. It is cool, though. > > >> >> >>> >>>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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