Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 14:51:01 11/22/99
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On November 22, 1999 at 14:09:55, William H Rogers wrote:
>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
That's what I have heard too, but never got it.
Then on my first PC compatible I was able to run MyChess for PC. It still works
on today's PCs, but has a terrible interface.
You seem to have an incredible collection of TRS-80 computers!
IIRC the Model 100 was one of the first "notebooks", but was totally
incompatible with the real TRS-80. Or am I mixing things up?
Have you tried to dump your ROM and use it to run the TRS-80 emulators for PCs?
I have downloaded a TRS-80 emulator some time ago, but I don't have the ROM
image!
Christophe
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