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Subject: Re: About good old times

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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