Hehe, unfortunately all of us, fanatics of old technologies have to adapt. I use dosbox instead of dos, VB net instead of vb 6, cloud instead of client server etc ...
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Feb 26, 2021
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My first computer was a 286 with a monochrome monitor, dot matrix printer. I remember doing very easy stuff in GW-Basic.
Feb 26, 2021
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My first PC was the Amstrad 1640 (a 640Mb 386). I also had at the same time a Commodore Amiga 500. I had the game Cannon Fodder for both. The resources needed to run the game on MSDos were nearly twice that needed for the Amiga. It is a real shame Commodore folded.
I have just updated my page with the ranking of the latest versions of the dos programs.
The page is on http://www.lissandrello.it/scacchi/
I will update this page as soon as I find new information, as soon as I find more accurate information, or as soon as I find a better way to display the results.
The page is in Italian, but the table is in English.
Greetings
Dec 23, 2023
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I notice this post is old, but I ran some old DOS programs in VMWare Workstation 12 Player using their Windows 3.1 Guest Operating System. I had to do a lot of setup, and was able to use the "Chess-DOS-VM_Collection" discussed in a previous post. This also included a lot of setup and modifications to config.sys, autoexec.bat, and chess.bat, but in the end, it was utilizing nearly full CPU with most programs getting 10-11 ply deep just out of the opening. Not all programs worked successfully, but most did. I have another post on this which also includes a link to the games and standings...
https://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=49533&start=30#p926299
@lissandrello - My comment was tongue-in-cheek, meant to show how old I am. BTW - I’m an old school programmer and engineer, having written my fair share of assembler routines in the 1980s. Although, my platform then was the IBM VM 360 big iron. Assembler was reserved for problems not addressed by some higher level language. These days, I use C++ and Python for convenience.