The very first DOS chess program was?

[Jouni]

I don't find any info in computer chess time line pages about that. But here are the best experts so please tell us!

[F.Huber]

The oldest I have in my archive is MyChess by Dave Kittinger, dated 1985.

[Sylwy]

The oldest I have in my archive is MyChess by Dave Kittinger, dated 1985.

Hello Herr Franzy !

The first DOS MyChess of Dave Kittinger was from 1979 year !
Here is the download page of 1984 version :

http://www.hotud.org/component/content/ ... tegy/21965

And here is the version from 1979:

http://www.top-5000.nl/dl.htm?file=dl/mychess.zip

SilvianR

[F.Huber]

The first DOS MyChess of Dave Kittinger was from 1979 year !

Interesting - how can a DOS program be from 1979 when the first MS-DOS version was released 1981?

But of course with Einstein's 'time dilatation' everything is possible!

[Sylwy]

Microchess 2.0:

http://www.fadden.com/techmisc/images/a2-microchess.jpg

SilvianR

[Don]

Microchess 2.0:

http://www.fadden.com/techmisc/images/a2-microchess.jpg

SilvianR

I think this might be correct, but not sure. Microchess was around long before Dos at any rate for the Apple and for the TRS-80 at least.

Don

[Sylwy]

The first DOS MyChess of Dave Kittinger was from 1979 year !

Interesting - how can a DOS program be from 1979 when the first MS-DOS version was released 1981?But of course with Einstein's 'time dilatation' everything is possible!

He-he-he !

1.-In July 1981, Microsoft bought all rights to the DOS from Seattle Computer Products.
2.-At Seattle Computer Products - the first versions of the operating system, called QDOS 0.10, were shipped in August 1980.

Biblio:

http://www.patersontech.com/dos/byte/history.html

And the history comes down in past !

Deh , Einstein !

[F.Huber]

I think this might be correct, but not sure. Microchess was around long before Dos at any rate for the Apple and for the TRS-80 at least.

Well, you may be right, but the thread question was for DOS programs.

And "(C) 1979" in MyChess' startscreen doesn't mean that it was produced in this year 1979 - Dave K. could just as well have developed it since 1979 on other systems (CP/M, Apple, Atari, C64 etc.)

[Don]

I think this might be correct, but not sure. Microchess was around long before Dos at any rate for the Apple and for the TRS-80 at least.

Well, you may be right, but the thread question was for DOS programs.

I know that it was a DOS question, but there were not many microcomputer chess programs around before DOS and microchess was one of the very few. And they were aggressive about making it available to various architectures.

And "(C) 1979" in MyChess' startscreen doesn't mean that it was produced in this year 1979 - Dave K. could just as well have developed it since 1979 on other systems (CP/M, Apple, Atari, C64 etc.)

[Sylwy]

Hello Maestro Don !

We speaking here about DOS like operating system. Not about the developers.
Apple developed his Apple DOS in 1978 ! For this operating system was Microchess 2.0 .
DOS 3.1 was written mostly by Steve Woznia, Randdy Wigginton and Paul Laughton :

http://www.articleworld.org/index.php/Apple_DOS

Regards,
SilvianR