Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 01:23:22 11/21/99
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>Posted by Christophe Theron on November 20, 1999 at 14:30:43: > >>>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. >> >>You miss one :) >> >>Rebel since 1982 was available on a casette (loading time 12 minutes) >>sold by a small dutch shop. Sold copies 20 or so :) >> >>Ed >I have never put my hands on this one! :) So I could have sold 21! :) >Was it assembly or Basic? GUI in Basic, engine in assembler. >It would be funny to run it again in a TRS-80 emulator on PC. There is a site >dedicated to this. You can find Sargon for download for example. I lost my TRS-80 ASM sources :( But I still have my very first one written in Basic listed on paper :) >When the Rebel-Tiger gives me a break, I'd like to try it. Well, I have also >this Linux stuff in mind... And also this new selection scheme... And this >evaluation improvement... And this little change to try in the time >management... And endgame databases to implement... And multiple CPU support :) >Mmh... I suppose I'll try the TRS-80 emulator in 2010... And finally I'll port >Tiger to the TRS-80. I'm dreaming about this since several years... :) I then maybe challenge you with an old Rebel running on a 6502 Apple IIE of 2 Mhz. I still have 2 of them. Or even better... In the past I have written an Apple IIE emulator for the PC. I can run and old 6502 Rebel on the PC. It's a super fast emulator, speed loss not more than a factor 2-3 if I remember well. At that time I used it for a while to improve my 6502 engines because a 386 20 Mhz was much more comfortable than the Apple IIE at 2 Mhz. If I can dig up the thing in 2010 I will give you a very hard time :) Ed > Christophe
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