Msg: 5450 *Conference*
10-02-94 09:54:38
From: RICHARD HANSON
To : TOM JONES
Subj: REPLY TO MSG #5449 (ROMULUS CHESS)
---- You've got a Romulus Chess, too, Tom. I'm looking at 5 on the shelf right now--that I know of. They've been in that position for over a year. I'll still have 3 or so left. You are certinly welcome to one, no charge. I've already made a note on your order form. Thanks for taking one off my hands. As far as I know, the chess program requires almost the entire Model 200 24K RAM for use. It's a big program--from our point of view--but I hear it plays a pretty mean game. I played it before but can't remember just how mean, mean is. I'll leave that up to you to discover. I believe it's all in BASIC--again, it's been awhile. It's a tape-based program but awhile back I was toying with the idea of coping it to disk. My last thought on the subject was to use a TS-DOS ROM with the DOS ON feature to start the program, <ctrl> <break> the program to the BASIC OK prompt, then SAVE"0:chess.ba" to disk. I never actually did the process but can't, at this time, see why it won't work. Since TS-DOS on ROM runs from the ROM address space .vs running in RAM, both chess and TS-DOS could co-exist without space limitation problems. Another idea was to load it into a Model 100/102 and do the same thing. As long as I didn't attempt to run the program it would be just fine--and a 100/102 has 32K RAM. My crazy idea at the time was to place all of the old Radio Shack programs, and their docs, online for all to access ... yet, another extreemly time consuming project for the elite onliners. (grin) -Rick-