Author: David Dahlem
Date: 16:39:45 09/22/05
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On September 22, 2005 at 17:08:44, Carey wrote: >On September 22, 2005 at 16:56:09, Lieven Clarisse wrote: > >>Nice work Carey, >> >>You probably know this but here is a links to a few chess programs from the >>1980s; i particulary remember playing psion chess. >> >>http://www.gambitchess.com/pub/progr.htm > >Yeah, I've seen that. And I have a few old ones myself. And there are lots of >'warez' ones on the web. > >The problem is that most of them are still copyrighted. > >Posting them on the web is a bit of a problem. Even if it's done just to >preserve some old program that has no commercial value left. > >In that case, about the best thing that can be done is *if* you have original >media and manuals, to donate it to some place like ComputerHistory.org, so they >can preserve and dispaly it. > >Those people are more concened with computer hardware and computer chess >hardware, etc. rather than software based chess programs. But I'm sure they'd >take it if you had the originals and offered it to them. > > >It would be nice, however, if somebody made up a list of all the computer chess >programs from the 70's and 80s. For all those old 8 bit micros etc. At least >that way people would at least know what existed back then, even if it couldn't >publicly be posted for download. > >But that's one of quite a few things on my list of things to do, and it's not >towards the top. I had a chess program for the Commodore 64 back in the 80's called Colossus Chess and it was my favorite. :-) Regards Dave
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