Author: Carey
Date: 13:12:15 09/11/05
I'm still working on trying to collect and archive old & classic chess programs. I haven't given up. I haven't made much progress, but I haven't given up. I'm still working on trying to track down some of the chess programers from yesteryear. I have found a few, but most others I haven't found. Does anybody know where to contact these people? Dennis Cooper & Ed Kozdrowicki (CoKo -- Program?) David Kittinger (MyChess -- Obtain source?) Dan or Kathe Spracklen (Sargon. -- Reposting permission for Sargon-1 source.) Peter Frey, Larry Atkin (Chess 0.5 -- Reposting permission for article and source.) David Slate & Larry Atkin (Chess 3.x & 4.x -- Obtain programs.) Ken Thompson (TinkerBelle, Belle diagrams etc.) David Slate (NuChess -- Obtain program.) Mike Alexander, Fred Swartz, Jack O'Keefe, Mark Hersey (CHAOS -- Obtain program) Albert Zorbrist & Fredrick Carlson (USC chess program -- Obtain program.) Alan Baisley (TECH-II -- Ask questions.) Richard Greenblatt (MacHack VI -- source) If you know where any of these people are at, plese let me know or let them know that to contact me. If you know others, then go ahead and remind me.... If you have or know of classic chess programs that you feel should be archived, then let me know. There are lots of old programs and I certainly don't know all of them. If it's from the 60's, then definetly! If it's from the 70's, then probably. If it's from the 80's, then maybe. (And if it's from the 50's... you don't even need to ask!!! I'd definetly like any of the chess or checkers programs from back then. But I doubt anything still exists.) I've been in contact with a few people, but there's some difficultly in getting stuff off old tapes (pdp, dec, paper, etc.) Several people have offered old commercial programs, from the late 70s or early 80s. Those are definetly appreciated. But I'm unsure of what to do with them... Copyright issues are still in effect even for the antique Atari-2600 video chess cartridge, etc. So they can't really legally be posted on the web some where. Even though there is no commercial value anymore. I fully agree there are many commercial programs that should be saved and archived. I'm just not yet sure how or where. I figure I should probably wait until that's really a problem. (There are lots of chess programs for the 8 bit micros, but I haven't taken the time yet to visit all the old micro sites and try to track down and download all of them. If somebody wants to make a list or something, go right ahead...) Same for classic articles, papers, thesis, etc. They should be archived as well. Some can be posted. Other's can't... A lot of the classic papers, thesis's, etc. just aren't in electronic form at all. And I don't have access to them. (Ahh, the joys of living in a small rural town!)
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