Subject: Re: [stella] Video/Computer Chess From: A Braunsdorf <ab@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 12:25:12 -0500 |
In message <3FD32F6E.5040608@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David writes: > Not what you are looking for but related is the source code and a little > back story to Micro Chess for the Kim-1 > It's only 1K of ROM but uses more RAM. > http://www.floodgap.com/retrobits/ckb/secret/microchess.html > > I looked it over and it uses about 170 bytes of RAM in zero page and > appears to make ample use of the separate 256 byte stack to do backtracking. Thanks, I'll throw that in for comparison too. :-) > Running with the limited RAM, the chess implementation for the 2600 must > be fascinating! Yep! That's one of the most interesting things about it. I have some other questions about it too. > (Interesting side note: found Larry Wagner's (original author Video > Chess logic) resume on the net. http://pctvnet.com/dsp/ In his resume > he mentions the chess game as 6K. Saw a 6K version on the Atari Protos > site but the shipped version was 4K) That's what they say, but it's 4K too, right? Was when I downloaded it. :-( Anybody else got any questions or answers before I dive back in? The work I'd done on Video Chess so far is on another computer and I haven't looked at it in a while, but I recall I had a pretty good start on it. I was planning to do a detailed writeup and analysis. ab ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archives (includes files) at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/archives/ Unsub & more at http://www.biglist.com/lists/stella/
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