Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:32:25 11/21/99
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On November 21, 1999 at 04:23:22, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>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! :)
Of course!
Was it better than Sargon II, or just equal?
>>Was it assembly or Basic?
>
>GUI in Basic, engine in assembler.
What brings a PC, really?
At that time we already had the choice between several languages, and could
simply pick the best fitted to our needs, and even mix several in one
application!
>>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 :(
Try to find one of your 20 customers!
>But I still have my very first one written in Basic listed on paper :)
...no thanks... :)
1 node per second is maybe a little too slow. :)
>>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 :)
Well... I didn't even think to this one.
I don't like the idea that I could need more than one processor to beat a given
opponent... :)
>>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.
Is it your famous secret autoplayer?
Two Apple IIe playing in endless automatic matches since 20 years, and learning,
spitting the learning results into a PC every day?
I wish I had the idea myself 20 years ago! :)
>Or even better...
>
>In the past I have written an Apple IIE emulator for the PC.
That's incredible! Did you write it just to run a 6502 Rebel with more comfort,
or did you make a standalone product of this emulator?
> 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 :)
At that time you'll have a 1GHz Apple IIe.
Check your sources. It would be sad to see you resigning because you get a stack
overflow after a 20 plies search! :)
Be warned that I could have a 2GHz TRS-80 on my side, loaded with 48Kb RAM.
That's a serious client! :)
Christophe
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