Author: David Mitchell
Date: 20:38:08 08/28/05
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On August 28, 2005 at 20:23:01, kaqs.1662@bumpymail.com wrote: >On August 28, 2005 at 20:01:12, David Mitchell wrote: > >>I'm sorry I can't help you "resurrect" MacHack. I'm amazed that > >Well... if I could find some PC based tools to disassemble it, I might have a >try at it. I've done that with a few programs way back then. Nothing quite >this complex though. > >But I don't know how to do a pdp. I've never used one. The first big computer >I ever used was a vax with VMS. > >>1). You seem to have found it, and > >So am I. > >I've figured for years that it was lost.... >> >Beyond that... [shrug] Someone with a real interest in this area could do a big service to the CC community by just collecting whatever is out there, helping to get those programs that can be, transferred over to a portable language, and providing enough distribution through the net to ensure that they're not just lost. Jonathan Schaeffer(Phoenix and Chinook checkers) & Monty Newborn (Ostrich), and all those guys must have their programs still around, somewhere. Research programs like Wilken's Paradise would also be great to save. I'm sure all the authors would want some assurance that their programs weren't just going to be held up to ridicule and matched up against the latest and greatest programs of today, to be laughed at. Obviously Marsland has reservation about giving his program out to you, perhaps because of the above concern. Thanks for the stroll down memory lane, anyway. Dave
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