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Subject: Re: Good old days, early '80s

Author: KarinsDad

Date: 10:59:36 11/20/99

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On November 20, 1999 at 12:42:54, Christophe Theron wrote:

[snip]
>
>
>I remember I had other chess programs for the TRS-80:
>* MicroChess 1.5 (worked on a 4Kb TRS-80!)
>* Sargon I & II
>* Sfinks
>* Gambit
>* ...and mine, which was called Sparph at that time.
>
>I'm sure there were some others, but I don't remember exactly about them. Sfinks
>was probably as good as Sargon II. Somebody has heard about William Fink since
>that time?
>
>
>    Christophe

I did not even know there were chess programs for the early TRS-80s (I did see a
demo once later on).

I had an old monochrome TRS-80 with 4K of memory. This was in the late 70s. I
doubt you could write any chess program then in 4K, but maybe somebody managed
it.

My next computer was an IBM PC with 64K in 1983 and I ran Sargon III on it.

BTW, does anyone know whether you can get Sargon III to work in a DOS shell on
Windows 98? I was hoping to run it against my program manually to see if my
program could actually play at that old level (which by the way was stronger
than I am).

KarinsDad :)



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