Author: Stan Arts
Date: 05:38:26 06/14/05
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On June 14, 2005 at 06:01:51, Kim Roper Jensen wrote: >Once upon a time I was a little boy with a new Commodore 64 computer, and a >chess program called Colosus Chess 4 by M. Bryant. > >Ohh i remember one time when I had a position and let the computer run for a >whole day and it reached 1 million nodes - I was impressed, a million nodes on a >1Mhz 6502 - how could I ever beat this kind of monster ! > >Now fastforward to the new millenium and present day. I was jus looking for some >fun for my Palm Tungsten C and I could have downloaded NAUMChess for palm(quite >nice, is it being developed anymore ?? ) or some of the commercial programs - >but whats the fun in that. > >At some undefined point in time my googling found this >http://frodopalm.sourceforge.net/ and then this http://www.c64unlimited.net > >Suddenly my EFR(Extreme Fun Radar) went off, could colossus be there ? Browsing >around and yep, its there(and some other chessprograms) ! > >Its there and works smoothly on Frodo ! > >So my advice to others : download frodo and try some of the old but not >forgotten chess programs, you will have fun and its cheap :) Hi Kim, I also got introduced to computerchess (and chess) with the Commodore 64. With a program called Grandmaster, and another one called MyChess-II, if I remember right. Back then I played countless games with them, they were a lot of fun to play with, and they did well considering what they were running on, and how tiny those programs had to be. Grandmaster even hardly ever took any time for a move, I remember thinking that was not fair, because he was a computer. Thanks for the links, I've never managed to get a C64-emulator to work, but looks like there's a lot more of them, so going to give it another go. :) Stan
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