Does anyone have a "cracked " version that runs under any of the emulators? Better still, does nayone know the format of the saved game files in the QL version? I play chess reasonably seriously (used to be county standard - but not any more!). All my games from the 80s are carefully stored as psion files, and I have an archive database telling me the file name, date, opponent, colour, opening, number of moves and results. But as I no longer have a real QL I have no access to the games themselves any more. Ideally, I'd like to convert them to .pgn format or combine the archive data and the games into chessbase files.
If I can't do that - at least with a cracked version I'd be able to play through the games and get print-out of them. Although psion chess was strong in its day, it no longer compares, and there are any number of freeware chess display programmes (eg winboard) . There are some exceedingly strong Freeware chess engines (eg crafty). Commercial offerings, such as Fritz combine them with massive opening and endgame databases, and they can be used to annotate games (explaining where you went wrong in plain English), and even publish the games to the web. It would be interesting to get hold of the source code for psion chess to see how easy it would be to reoptimise the code for today's computers . Jeremy Marcel Kilgus wrote: >Ralf Reköndt wrote: > > >>it seems, you are right. There ist just a "freed" version around the >>Net for PC not an official one. >> >> > >Yeah, but at least one of the authors doesn't seem to mind: :-) > >http://www.dosgamesonline.com/index/game/Psion%20Chess/231/ >| Posted by André Shapps on October 29th 2005 03:22:15 AM >| >| I was a bit unsure how to rate this because I did the graphics, but >| then I though "Why spoil a perfect rating?". >| >| One thing to point out is that on PC´s of the time, when you tell a >| piece where to move to it does so slowly - on today´s machines you >| can´t see the animation. I didn´t really think make it futureproof for >| some reason! >| >| Anway, great to see an old friend come back to life after all these >| years. > >Marcel > >_______________________________________________ >QL-Users Mailing List >http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm > > > > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
