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Subject: Re: Wanted: Old Fidelity Chess Computer Mach IV - Reply to W. Irvin.

Author: Alan Grotier

Date: 11:48:25 08/07/99

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On August 07, 1999 at 14:17:17, walter irvin wrote:

>On August 07, 1999 at 06:18:43, John Dijkstra wrote:
>
>>I am looking for an old Fidelity Mach IIIc or Mach IV to buy.
> well i got a mach IV master , id consider selling .
>i used to measure every program i ever bought by how it did against mach and
>still do sometimes .you would be surprised by some of the scalps to the machs
>credit .rebel 8,rebel 10,cm4000,mchess pro 3.5,me,sapphire,a 2405 rated guy on
>the icc,drew but never beat crafty ,fritz 3 and 4,comet,ychess.the programs that
>give it severe problems are.
>1.cm6000
>2.crafty
>3.hiarcs
>4.psion
>just about in that order
>the machIV is 68020 20 mhz but until i started running programs at 300 mhz cyrix
>my programs had a hard time with the mach .sure makes me wonder how strong the
>mach would be if i could run it at 300 mhz??

Yes you are right! The Splacklin's had a wonderfull line of programs.Very strong
and many new features for it's time.
I am glad to know that although these are dinosaur programs they can give the
newer monsters a run for their money!

Salut:Alan




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