Deceased Commercial -or Otherwise- Programs...An Obituary.

[fern]

The list is long and sad like to read a bulletin coming from a battle front.
As far as I remember the engines thar are -or seems to be out of nowhere- are the following:

Tiger, by my friend Christophe Theron. I remember the good old days when Theron sent to me some first tries of Tiger for me to play them and give him my surely no useful comments.

MChess, by ...which is his name? Extremely powerful DOS program it was. I bought every sucesive version, all of them or almost coming in flopyy disk with just three instalations.

Gandalf....I never had one of these, but it was certainly strong.

The King....as far as we know, no new versions worth ther name since 3-4 years ago


Nimzo.. . seems like the author engaged in some other huge chess programming. No news for PC's.

Comet... .a really good DOS program no more updated to date.


Genius....a shame, but it has not been worked again since a decade or more ago

Kittinger engines with several names.....no news since 5 years

I am surely forgetting several more, perhaps dozens.
On the other side of the coin, new arrivals are shaking the place. Even so, it is sad to think on those vanished programs. With them it goes a part of our lives.

Fern

[Christopher Conkie]

I could put a picture here of all of this software, but I cannot really be bothered while this place is troll city.

When they get rid of the trolls without some trial by forum....the better.

One thing for certain.....better they better not come in CTF. They will die there, rapid.

[Harvey Williamson]

I could put a picture here of all of this software, but I cannot really be bothered while this place is troll city.

When they get rid of the trolls without some trial by forum....the better.

One thing for certain.....better they better not come in CTF. They will die there, rapid.

Should we move Computer Chess Club to CTF? And leave the Computer Clone Club here?

[Christopher Conkie]

I could put a picture here of all of this software, but I cannot really be bothered while this place is troll city.

When they get rid of the trolls without some trial by forum....the better.

One thing for certain.....better they better not come in CTF. They will die there, rapid.

Should we move Computer Chess Club to CTF? And leave the Computer Clone Club here?

Yes

It is much more civilised in there.

And that is the truth. All of the trolls that are left are now in the CCC.

Next Ippolit thread......let's see who makes it. OK?

I bet, one copy of Kaissa........

Christopher

[kaissa]

The list is long and sad like to read a bulletin coming from a battle front.

Tiger, by my friend Christophe Theron. I remember the good old days when Theron sent to me some first tries of Tiger for me to play them and give him my surely no useful comments.

Luckily, he continues with the Palm, which is a great OS but dying as well.

MChess, by ...which is his name? Extremely powerful DOS program it was. I bought every sucesive version, all of them or almost coming in flopyy disk with just three instalations.

Marty Hirsch. This was my favorite. No frills user interface, pure strength.

Genius....a shame, but it has not been worked again since a decade or more ago

Mr. Lang has updated it so that it can work on Vista systems, but sadly this one is gone as well. Great for handheld operating systems though.

I am surely forgetting several more, perhaps dozens.

I will add Rebel and Junior to this list of great programs that are not with us anymore.

Regards,

[hawkeye]

Several others are Fruit,Spike and Ruffian.They are still available as downloads but are not under active development as far as I know. And are sadly missed by myself and certainly many others.


Steve