Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:51:00 11/21/99
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On November 20, 1999 at 13:59:36, KarinsDad wrote:
>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 :)
Do you know what the size of the chess program for the Atari Video Game System
was?
Albert Silver
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