Author: Kim Roper Jensen
Date: 09:55:38 06/14/05
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On June 14, 2005 at 08:38:26, Stan Arts wrote: Hi Stan Its quite fun to see all the old games, and play them ! You should try colossus press the space bar while its thinking then you can se the information while it searches :) regards kim >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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