16 Apr
2008
16 Apr
'08
5:33 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I vaguely remember the 41 coming in different models
(*C, *CV), so I assume that's what you're referring
to. Pity I didn't buy one back in the day.
Hmm got to see if there's anything available for my
49G. It does sport 2.5 megs of memory after all (or
was it 1.5?).
The instructor who tried to teach us assembler made
mention of, and I can't swear to this, some imbedded
system for which a chess implementation was devised
(in assembler or machine code of course). The coder
ran into a problem of needing 1 more byte after his
first attempt, and alleviated the problem by recoding.
I could swear it was something *small*, but in fact
maybe it was actually some big iron. Can't remember.
Maybe I should e-mail him and find out...
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Apples,
Oranges, IBMers, etc. etc. What about HP
versions of chess?
Mildly off-=thread, but there's a mini-chess (5*5
oard, each player has
king, queen, bishop, knight, rook and 5 pawns, no
castling, no en passant
capture) for the HP41 calculator (!). I think it
meeds a CV (or a C with
3 RAM moudles?) and will print the board on the HP41
thermal printer.
It's hardly a good player, but it's impressive (to
me) that it could be
done at all).