If anyone here remembers that old DOS program, I would like to request help in obtaining a copy of the program manual. I lost my documentation in an apartment move. I am unable to find a copy on the interwebs. Thanks for any help or insight.
I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I have a copy of the book “Sargon, A Computer Chess Program” produced by Hayden Publishing in 1978. The cover says it is in Z-80 assembly language. The first chapter says the program takes up 8K(!) of RAM.
What I’m looking for is what the playing levels do. I don’t remember what, for example, the Level 6 time allotment is. I don’t need the whole manual, just a copy of the area where the levels are explained.
I would imagine that the computer power might affect those times. Maybe just play some games and time the various times between moves?
What, you still have a TRS-80? What other machine ever used the Z-80 chip?
Bill Smythe
I still have an old Tandy laptop that had an 8088 processor. And an old, noisy dot matrix printer that was compatible with it. Both should be in a museum. The laptop ran using its internal Deskmate software. The earliest version of Swiss-Sys on a 3.5 diskette works on it. At some point I acquired the “Sargon” book and put it away in a bookcase, so it is still in excellent condition. Likely, I will sell it at Half Price Books, along with a still working Fidelity Chess Challenger that had a voice feature that went dead a long time ago.
Kool! I had one of those Fidelity models too! The voice never died, but a couple of the squares did.