chess engines

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I miss my Spectrum 48K.

Still had the thing a few years ago,stored under the bed, but when on a whim I tried to fire it up,........nothing.

🙁

Yeah, I miss my old TI99. I had commodore MB's all over the place. That would be because I used to work at Commodore before they bit the dust, near philly right off 309.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I miss my Spectrum 48K.

..., but when on a whim I tried to fire it up,........nothing.

🙁

Have you tried those little blue pills?

Originally posted by wolfgang59
Have you tried those little blue pills?

No, little blue pills stop the brain working so there isn't any mental illness.... nothing.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I miss my Spectrum 48K.

Still had the thing a few years ago,stored under the bed, but when on a whim I tried to fire it up,........nothing.

🙁

I am afraid I didn't come from such a fancy-schmancy background as you Atari, Commodore and Spectrum owners.

Anyone remember the ZX-80? 1KB of memory, and the screen had to go blank when you were running a program. Happy days......

Somebody somewhere wrote a chess program in 1KB, but I think that was for the ZX-81.

Originally posted by Rank outsider
I am afraid I didn't come from such a fancy-schmancy background as you Atari, Commodore and Spectrum owners.

Anyone remember the ZX-80? 1KB of memory, and the screen had to go blank when you were running a program. Happy days......

Somebody somewhere wrote a chess program in 1KB, but I think that was for the ZX-81.

Yeah, we had the BEST man! My wife was given a Microsoft PC, it had some screamers, an 8080 CPU WITH the math co-processor, running 4 frigging megahertz, can you IMAGINE such speed?

Originally posted by sonhouse
Yeah, we had the BEST man! My wife was given a Microsoft PC, it had some screamers, an 8080 CPU WITH the math co-processor, running 4 frigging megahertz, can you IMAGINE such speed?

...and who Needs that Kind of calculation power anyway...you sure it was 8080 and not 8088?

Originally posted by Ponderable
...and who Needs that Kind of calculation power anyway...you sure it was 8080 and not 8088?

Maybe it was as advanced as an 8085! But the math co-processor, WOW.

your mother must be so proud.

Originally posted by nighttiger72
your mother must be so proud.

she is 😀

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
I miss my Spectrum 48K.

Still had the thing a few years ago,stored under the bed, but when on a whim I tried to fire it up,........nothing.

🙁

Did the same with the original Nintendo, same luck. Marble madness, what an annoying classic.

Originally posted by Trev33
Did the same with the original Nintendo, same luck. Marble madness, what an annoying classic.

Talking of marbles, I also found one of those under the bed.

It still worked.

Originally posted by Ghost of a Duke
Talking of marbles, I also found one of those under the bed.

It still worked.

Why were you under the bed??

Originally posted by HandyAndy
Why were you under the bed??

Don't go there. Where he lost his marbles does not concern us.

Not sure why I think this is relevant, but I like playing games "no-reload" style. This means if I lose, I have to go clean the kitchen, or pick up the dog poop, or something. Wonderful motivation and immersion! This is for real!

^^^ Doesn't work with, say, Call of Duty type stuff. Fun to watch, but I have no interest in constantly re-spawning.