Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 17:25:01 09/23/05
Go up one level in this thread
On September 22, 2005 at 13:38:04, Carey wrote: Cool stuff. Browsing thru chess 4.6 (COMPASS) and Duchess (IBM ASM) was a trip down "memory lane" for me, having programmed on both of those machines/assembly languages way back when. The stuff from "blitz" seems to be essentially worthless, unfortunately... There used to be a guy on ICC that played and had a version of blitz. I think the account was something like "dark blue" rather than "deep Blue" or something along those lines. He had the 1978 version and had moved parts of it into some sort of high-powered PCI graphics card... I will see if I can figure out who it was and if he is still around. He definitely had the complete source. I could probably scan in a version of Cray Blitz that I still have a printed copy of. It was probably the 1986 WCCC version, so it is pretty old, and is not that recent since the program played thru 1994 and was modified through that date. The danger of scanning is that it won't run of course, since things line 1 (one) and l (lowercase l) get screwed up with OCR software (to name just a single case, there are lots of others). >I'd like to let people know of an early, prelimanry version of my antiquely >computer chess website. > >http://classicchess.tripod.com/ > >Yes, I know the site is ugly. I'm not a good web designer. Also, we do have >plans on moving the site to a better location. It just hasn't happened yet. > > >We currently have programs such as: > >Chess 0.5 - Source >Chess 4.6 - Source >Duchess - Source (& a ready to run tape image, for ibm emulators.) >Blitz - small source fragment >Checkmo-II - source >Kotok's 1962 chess program - thesis & source >Mike 1978 - source >T.Belle - 3 versions - source >Tech-II - source, slightly damaged. >Tech-II modified for Greenblatt's CHEOPS - source >Sargon - Source > >And a few others. > >We have several more programs coming. They just haven't arrived yet. > >We are still trying to track down authors, but it just takes time. A lot of >time. And many people from back then seem to have disappeared. > >If you know of an old program that should be on the list, let me know. > >If you know where an author is from back then, let me know. > >If you have programs from back then, let me know. > >We have made some progress, but there's a lot more to do. It's just slow work. >If you'd like to help, then feel free to jump in.
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.