Chess Computer Vintage (Hardware and Software)

[Albert Silver]

My first computer was SciSys Explorer with full 256 bytes RAM! http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/explorer_chess.html. Next Novag Constellation. It was really strong and good looking. And last either Novag Forte B or Mephisto Mondial don't remember sure. From 1990 only PC software.

I only owned one: the Fidelity Excel 68000. It wasn't as strong as the Mach II, its more expensive sibling, but it still contained the first example of hashtables in a standalone (together with the Mach II). It was a fun machine.

[towforce]

This thread has inspired an article in Chessbase - link.

I hope that they don't want to sell this incredible open source virtual machine as their next own new product, too

Really people! Just wait for Fritz 18, I am sure it should have all these ROMS playable from their new drop down menu with no installation required at a price of $99 USD.

You guys are a class act.

These remarks are jokes with smileys. Your misfortune is that they are good jokes, which are actually quite funny!

[AlexChess]

This thread has inspired an article in Chessbase - link.

I hope that they don't want to sell this incredible open source virtual machine as their next own new product, too and

Really people! Just wait for Fritz 18, I am sure it should have all these ROMS playable from their new drop down menu with no installation required at a price of $99 USD.

You guys are a class act.

These remarks are jokes with smileys. Your misfortune is that they are good jokes, which are actually quite funny!

I've found a lot of interesting people and memories thanks to this topic, starting from Ed Shroeder (once a time I was a Rebel customer and reseller, too ) ...and this is priceless

[AlexChess]

My first computer was SciSys Explorer with full 256 bytes RAM! http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/html/explorer_chess.html. Next Novag Constellation. It was really strong and good looking. And last either Novag Forte B or Mephisto Mondial don't remember sure. From 1990 only PC software. Novag Forte B was very strong and Super VIP, too!

I haven't never seen it before, but it's very similar to Kasparov Travel Champion 2080 that was one of my preferred, and quite strong!

OT: Jouni, on my updated crosstable Stockfish-dev is still number 1, but with Omar Khalid now supporting SugaR, ShashChess and BrainLearn will be hard to keep the leadership forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=78112&p=904428#p904904

[AlexChess]

Psion chess by Richard Lang was my first 1800 ELO program

[AlexChess]

Cyrus Chess 16K (no room for opening) for ZX Spectrum in 1982 was 1400 ELO strong!

[AlexChess]

That's incredible that was possible to write 1K chess program for this 1981 home computer!

[AlexChess]

Sir Clive Sinclair died yesterday

Why I remember him here? Because was strictly related to my chess player experience.

Home computers ZX81, ZX Spectrum and Sinclair QL opened chess programs availability to the masses!




https://worldofspectrum.org/archive/sof ... search-ltd by Richard Lang


https://www.chessprogramming.org/Psion always by Richard Lang!![/img]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU_VUN9 ... x=1&t=249s

[AlexChess]

Thank you Mr Clive Sinclair!

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81

[towforce]

Thank you Mr Clive Sinclair!

RIP

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ ... es-aged-81

At the time, he was a national hero!

Former Sinclair employee, Chris Curry, formed Acorn, another successful British computer company, and "Acorn" is the "A" in ARM - the world's best selling CPU, which Acorn created.

RIP Sir Clive.