Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 19:51:12 11/19/99
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On November 19, 1999 at 21:36:18, Micheal Cummings wrote:
>On November 19, 1999 at 16:39:13, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On November 19, 1999 at 15:42:10, Jari Huikari wrote:
>>
>>>On November 19, 1999 at 14:56:35, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>>2. How many years you have used in developing Tiger?
>>>
>>>>I started to think about chess programming in 1979, but at that time I did not
>>>>manage to write a chess program for my TI-58. I wrote my first real chess
>>>>program in 1982, in assembly, on a TRS-80.
>>>
>>>I started four and half years ago. I remember that chess program came into
>>>my mind in 1983 when I got VIC 20. But with VIC one could only consider
>>>Tic Tac Toe programs, because of the small memory. I remember anyhow I saw
>>>a chess program for VIC. It could play - crudely. It let the kings be
>>>captured and the game continued anyhow after taking them...
>>>
>>>But when I bought Sargon II cartridge I got a reasonable computer opponent
>>>for the first time in my life.
>>>
>>> Jari
>>
>>That's how it started for me too. When I played for the first time against
>>Sargon II on TRS-80. It was in 1979, I was in africa at that time.
>>
>>I have got Sargon I only several years after! :)
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>I had a TRS-80 Colour Computer II, used to spend days copying programs from
>magazines into this thing, only to ever get a really crappy game at the end. But
>still it was better then the 1K MC-10 computer I first got. Just getting a block
>on the screen with that things was great
Yeah! Remember the incredible resolution of the TRS-80? It was 128x48 pixels,
and you could mix text with graphics. I'm still wondering how they were able to
draw the chess pieces, but they did!
I think the TRS-80 color had a better resolution, but I never had it. My next
computer was a TRS-80 model III, then I got a model IV. They were compatible
with each other, which was my main motivation to stick with them.
Then I got a Sanyo 550 which was my first IBM PC compatible. It was in 1985 or
1986, I don't even remember...
Christophe
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