15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
1:51 p.m.
--- Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
If it was written in FORTRAN it must have been
kewell.
Apples, Oranges, IBMers, etc. etc. What about HP
versions of chess?
At one time there used to be a world of
shareware/freeware out there, and I'm again drifting
off-topic, some real esoteric stuff (like analyzing
ancient manuscripts/parchments on an early Mac II).
Curious what has been done to catalog all the weird
stuff that's out there, presumably floating around.
The program I mentioned was written for the gov't, so
the author couldn't sell it. IINM (and no I don't
remember the title) it did wind up as freeware...of
sorts methinks.
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Date: Tue, 1
Apr 2008 17:08:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Chris M
any thoughts on vintage chess games?
I used one back in the early 70s that was pretty
decent with a nice
display. But you needed a CDC 6000-series system to
run it; it was a
real cycle hog, IIRC.
Wonder if anyone bothered to preserve the game?
It was by-and-large written in CDC FORTRAN. It
originally had its
own PP display driver (CHD); later versions used the
programmable
"T"(on SCOPE 3.3, anyway) DSD screen.