15 Apr
2008
15 Apr
'08
7:59 a.m.
Dave Dunfield wrote:
Processor Technology had a chess program. I have the program and manual
on my sol web site (http://www.sol20.org/programs.html, look for
"chess"). The manual was recreated from a xeroxed copy of the original,
sans covers, so if there is a date for the program, I don't know it.
However, there was an errata published 9/78, so the program must predate
that.
Here is a screen capture of a game just in progress:
http://www.sol20.org/screens/chess.gif
I recall a 6502 "microchess," although I never used it. A quick google
shows it was originally written for the KIM-1, using about 1KB of RAM.
It came out in 1976.
http://www.benlo.com/microchess/Kim-1Microchess.html
http://6502.org/source/games/uchess/uchess.htm
and plenty of others.
any thoughts
on vintage chess games?
One of the earliest ones that I used was called:
CHESS MASTER
Copyright 1978 by SOFTWARE SPECIALISTS, Norco, California
and sold by Dynacomp for NorthStar DOS. I ran it
using a single-density N* controller in my Altair. 