Anyone hear about Saitek Galileo

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M ANSARI
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Anyone hear about Saitek Galileo

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I was looking through some old stuff in my mom's house and I came upon a nice electronic wood board. It is a Saitek Galileo ... with Kasparov model written on it. It has inside it a huge module which when I pulled out says Leonardo 6Mhz written on it. Anyone know anything about this?

Obviously at 6Mhz it will play very poorly ... but is there a module that can play a decent game with it. It has written on it "Open Architecture" and it seems like the design was made in such a way so as to make it upgradeable. The board is really nice and I would love to get it working again if I could.

Here are some pix that I took with my mobile phone camera (not too clear I know).

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Galileo is more or less same as the Renaissance board. Minus the 81 LED.

http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/in ... ek_Galileo

With the brute force module it will become about 2050elo or with the very expensive sparc module about 2150 elo.

These boards are really nice indeed

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Murat wrote:Galileo is more or less same as the Renaissance board. Minus the 81 LED.

http://www.schach-computer.info/wiki/in ... ek_Galileo

With the brute force module it will become about 2050elo or with the very expensive sparc module about 2150 elo.

These boards are really nice indeed

Murat:.
and of course the Galileo does not have the built-in Display Screen that the Ren board has

i can also mention that with the B6 module ..the ELO is about 1800

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Hala Majd,
A free hint for my dear friend.....
You can squeeze Steve B for a good amount of bucks selling him the device :lol:
Don't make any discounts regards :mrgreen: ,
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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Hala Majd,
A free hint for my dear friend.....
You can squeeze Steve B for a good amount of bucks selling him the device :lol:
Don't make any discounts regards :mrgreen: ,
Dr.Wael Deeb
actually Wael...
i already have the Galileo and the Leonardo and the Ren board and ALL of the OSA modules

as can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... il/?page=4

Just Keeping you up to date regards
Steve
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Steve B wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:Hala Majd,
A free hint for my dear friend.....
You can squeeze Steve B for a good amount of bucks selling him the device :lol:
Don't make any discounts regards :mrgreen: ,
Dr.Wael Deeb
actually Wael...
i already have the Galileo and the Leonardo and the Ren board and ALL of the OSA modules

as can be seen here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N ... il/?page=4

Just Keeping you up to date regards
Steve
Sorry Majd,at least I tried :D
Thanks Steve for the update....
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Steve B wrote: and of course the Galileo does not have the built-in Display Screen that the Ren board has

Good catch Steve, I forgot all about that.

/bows to the master


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Re: Anyone hear about Saitek Galileo

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Not really interested in selling it but it would be great if I could get a module that could have a PPC Fruit engine. What OS does this run on does anyone know? Would it be difficult to change some chips and get them to work on this nice board?
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if you want to have fun i would advise to burn the D++ into this module.
you can download the eproms from my website and also see what is going on with the thing. the d++ or the little less speculative d+
was an experimental version from kaplan for the 8 bit machine that was never sold.

http://www.thorstenczub.de/dplus.html

i have heard that there is a device driver as UCI engine to get the
saitek boards running as an engine under any UCI capable GUI
but i was unable to far to get this device driver and test it out.
maybe you are luckier. try google and you will see that there is
a device driver. i also put a posting about this in CCC a while ago.