Author: William H Rogers
Date: 11:09:55 11/22/99
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On November 21, 1999 at 14:28:58, Pete Galati wrote: >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 :) > >I got a download of Sargon 5 at >http://activision.downloadstore.com/products/d40900.html the download cost me >$16.95 (it's an interesting program but I still consider it a questionable >purchase). With Sargon 5 you have to be in Dos, it won't work in a Dos window >at all. Sargon III however might be a different story, it might be willing to >run in a Dos window. > >If I were you I'd dig it up and give it a try. Did Sargon III like 5 have a 3D >board that had an arm & hand come down and make your move and for Sargon itself >have a skeleton arm & hand? Rather strange. > >Pete I Still have Sargon's 1 thru 5, although 1 & 2 are for the TRS80. I also have sfinks, zchess, chessmate80 and others for the old Radio Shack computers. However my only copy of MicroChess by Peter Jennings crashed and is not useable any more..sigh, I wish I had a working copy of it again. I now still have a Model 4P, a model 100 and a few others. By the way, Kittenger had a version of MyChess for the Radio Shacks computers too, but I never got it. Bill
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