Happy Birthday to one of our great programmers: happy birthday Marty Hirsch

[BrendanJNorman]

I also have these 2 DOS disks. At that time they cost 200 German marks (equivalent to 400 euros).

That was a lot of money back then! The creators were only interested in making money with computer chess. Or close the projects. And so it was with Mchess. Project closed. What should I celebrate?

Yeah mate, horrible that people who contribute things of value should try to make a living from it, huh? They should all work for YOU for FREE...AND provide whatever specs you demand as well. If you want an extra feature, they should give it. If you want multi-CPU, they should give it...

All for free...especially, and specifically for you. Right?

Or maybe you could stop being so selfish and wish one of the computer chess pioneers happy birthday?

Happy Birthday to Marty from me for sure, and If a UCI port of MChess came out it'd be the greatest day since...the Zarkov treasure trove was released. Both are old school classics!

[Werewolf]

M-Chess was a classic. Several years ago I corresponded with Marty. At that time he said there was a possibility of a UCI version of M-Chess. That would be nice but sadly it hasn't materialized.

Steve

He's on Facebook, I almost sent him a message about a uci version

Why not follow that up? A lot of people would gladly pay for a UCI MChess just for nostalgic reasons if he wanted to earn some cash...

[BrendanJNorman]

M-Chess was a classic. Several years ago I corresponded with Marty. At that time he said there was a possibility of a UCI version of M-Chess. That would be nice but sadly it hasn't materialized.

Steve

He's on Facebook, I almost sent him a message about a uci version

Why not follow that up? A lot of people would gladly pay for a UCI MChess just for nostalgic reasons if he wanted to earn some cash...

+1 I certainly would.

[chrisw]

I also have these 2 DOS disks. At that time they cost 200 German marks (equivalent to 400 euros).

That was a lot of money back then! The creators were only interested in making money with computer chess. Or close the projects. And so it was with Mchess. Project closed. What should I celebrate?

Most of that was profit not to Marty but to the reselling shops who fixed the prices very high. The shop here was mostly responsible for that btw. The “specialist” shops were making very high profit margins on the dedicated hardware chess. 2000 USD, 5000 USD? And these shops were very frightened that disc based software was going to destroy their market and that was the reason they insisted on the crazy 200 USD final price on disc software from semi-amateurs like Marty. It was the same retailers that insisted on the tortuous anti-pirate locks, for the same reason. Marty (and Ed and others) had very little option but to accept their terms, it was that or they sold nothing at all in the US.