Per Witte wrote: >> Finding some spare time those days to use my "QL", I've been >> wondering if anybody has a (patched) PSION CHESS which >> runs "fine" under later (QD-)OS like SMSQ(/E) on non >> QL-Hardware like QXL or QPC? > > Versions are available that run from disk on QLs and 100% compatibles > (including speed :( but I havent encountered any that will run on > anything else. The program bypasses most of Qdos and runs mainly on > the bare metal. I suspect that a major rewrite would be required. > Tough without the source code. More or less same for Scrabble.
Scrabb;le was patched by Rich Mellor - he supplied me with a copy which runs from disk, but if I remember rightly I had to send my original scrabble cartridge or disk to prove entitlement. Having failed to find a patched QL Psion Chess I put the next best thing I could find (a freeware DOS version of QL Psion Chess by author Richard Lang) onto my website shame on me, a DOS program on my website :-( I'm not 100% sure of this, but I don't think the copyright or distribution status of the Psion QL games (Chess, Matchpoint, HyperDrive) was ever changed to make them freely distributable in the same way as QL ROMs for example. -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html
