My Stockfish Setup!!! 486 dx 75mhz Video!

[mclane]

Disapointing, my slowest machine in the basement that still works is my AMD K6 III 3D + 400 mhz i used for preparing on tournaments.
Seems i need to downgrade.

My first dos machine was a supercharger for my atari ST.
The cpu was an 8086 compatible NEC V30-CPU with 8 MHz.

With that machine i was able to run early rexchess and mchess pc programs while using my atari ST.

The next pc was a 80286 with 16 mhz.
The HDD was very small. Maybe 20 MB.

I think later i had a 386SX and later 486 machines with 33 and also 100 mhz.
The amd K6 III + machine was with 400 mhz and good for chess because it had a big internal cache.

The next level was an athlon machine.



I mainly build the machines by my own, do it until today.

That way i know which components are used and how everything works.

The fastest machine i use is a ryzen 9 with 16 cores.


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Maybe i should look for an old 486 or 386 again.

[Werewolf]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fQD3OR7raV0

Stockfish 6 486dx4 75Mhz 12Mb ram Win95 Winboard !!! 1 Kn bus 25Mhz x 3 multiplier

Man this takes me back. My first computer was a 486 SX/2 66mhz. The DX was nice because it had a math coprocessor. There was a dos 6.22 driver to software "mimic" the coprocessor just to get things like Autocad running. Those were some good days.

Same here. I remember playing M-Chess against some dedicated machines. As I recall, it also searched about 1 knps. You can see a couple of games and my review of M-Chess in Eric Hallsworth magazine here:

http://www.chesscomputeruk.com/SS_35.pdf

Fun times!

— Steve

I had Mchess 1.71 on a 286 at 12 MHz and it searched at 500 nps

[hammerklavier]

Disapointing, my slowest machine in the basement that still works is my AMD K6 III 3D + 400 mhz i used for preparing on tournaments.
Seems i need to downgrade.

My first dos machine was a supercharger for my atari ST.
The cpu was an 8086 compatible NEC V30-CPU with 8 MHz.

With that machine i was able to run early rexchess and mchess pc programs while using my atari ST.

The next pc was a 80286 with 16 mhz.
The HDD was very small. Maybe 20 MB.

I think later i had a 386SX and later 486 machines with 33 and also 100 mhz.
The amd K6 III + machine was with 400 mhz and good for chess because it had a big internal cache.

The next level was an athlon machine.



I mainly build the machines by my own, do it until today.

That way i know which components are used and how everything works.

The fastest machine i use is a ryzen 9 with 16 cores.


——-

Maybe i should look for an old 486 or 386 again.

Nec V30!!! great Clone of 8086! &superior of original!....

Amd k6-400Mhz runs perfect Stockfish6 & maybe more news versions! 2800 elo sure! or more!

[jshriver]

My first PC was a Timex Sinclair 1000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 I couldn't do much with it though

That sounds very familiar. Wasn't that a really popular computer in the Uk? Read up on them a while back and was impressed, especially for the price. Would have loved one back in the day and see there are some emulators out there to play some classic games. One being a chess game in 1024 bytes.

[Steve Maughan]

My first PC was a Timex Sinclair 1000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timex_Sinclair_1000 I couldn't do much with it though

That sounds very familiar. Wasn't that a really popular computer in the Uk? Read up on them a while back and was impressed, especially for the price. Would have loved one back in the day and see there are some emulators out there to play some classic games. One being a chess game in 1024 bytes.

I believe you're referring to the Sinclair Spectrum. It was the first home computer for ~£125. It came in 16k and 48k versions with a 3.5 Mhz Z80 processor — I got the 48k version. It had rubber keys and booted to Sinclair Basic. You could also program it in assembler but it wasn't easy. Part of the memory was screen memory. The first decent chess program was Richard Lang's Cyrus IS Chess. If you had the 16k version it needed some of the screen memory to run! Other notable chess programs were Colossus 4 by Martin Bryant and SuperChess 3.5 from Chris Whittington.

Happy days!

Steve