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I think only changed the pattern of memory initialization, and the small ROM aren't repeated to fill 32K. But I'll give a look.

Never tested advanced move generation techniques with old 8-bit processors, but there are Chessmaster for Z80 CPU and Novag Super Constellation for 6502 going around the 2000 ELO points mark (more than enough to defeat the typical coffee-shop player like me ) But I know the optimization techniques, so some suggestions: * hash-table, allows to avoid re-searching trees that come to the same position. Not feasible without less than 16K of dedicated RAM. * null-move, doesn't play and "sees" what the enemy can do, so it can prune trees. * try all captures first, reduces greatly the size of tree. * quietness analysis, if it is in check it keeps analyzing a further ply. This avoids pushing checkmate out of search horizon. * follow recaptures, this avoids pushing captures out of search horizon.

I was going to complain I couldn't vote, but already had put my vote and I forgot

The James Bond ROM isn't Z80 code. It is 6502 code, maybe for Atari 5200, it uses $D40A for WSYNC. The cartridge apparently is loaded at $6000-$9fff, but I wasn't able to run it on an Atari 5200 emulator for Mac OS X. Edit: Also the bankswitch ROMs are 6502 code.

I've Spectravideo's Bumper Bash and Master Builder.

I like it! 😀✌️

On a related note the Wikipedia CoCo's page doesn't contain the two games mentioned.

Technically the original Xbox is now retro, so Fable would be an option.

The closest I've found could be Trekboer

Welcome to Atariage!

John Rambo goes to Intellivision 😄

The 64 cards limit has prevented me of writing my great graphic adventure or having full graphic screens without simplifying too much.

I think the greatest limitation is the limit of 64 definable cards, and the other is having only 8 sprites.

Happy Christmas! Wow! Amazing! Every game you just have released is great, but Wizard of Wor is terrific!!! I'm in awe. 😱😱

Hi Andrew. Interesting looking board. Feel free to use the code of my chess engine Atomchess-6502 for your project if you like: https://github.com/nanochess/Atomchess-6502 https://github.com/nanochess/Atomchess-6502/blob/master/toledo_atomchess_6502.asm It would need some adaptation to keep drawing the screen while doing calculations. Currently it simply ceases to update display whenever the chess engine is working.

When I need something like brown, I prefer to use the red color (number 2).

Hi all. I had to do another boot sector game This time the cubic army is invading the Earth unleashing death, so you are in charge on killing as many cubes as possible! You need to press Left Ctrl to turn to left, Left Alt to turn to right, Left Shift to advance, and Right Shift to shoot cubes. The cubes advance towards you trying to crush you. Once you destroy all the cubes on the level, you'll go to the next level! Download link with source: https://github.com/nanochess/cubicDoom Enjoy it!

I saw it and I was amazed to see I came to the end of the video without feeling the time lapsed.

I cannot control the preview (probably lower quality as Google Books serves previews for millions of people) but the final print is very high quality without artifacts. In fact as you said I used PNG files for the screenshots. I've a lot of experience on this

Updated the first post with pictures of the color book. Also added links for buying the color edition and previewing the contents. Now it's a good time to order your book if you want to have it ready for Christmas gifts Lulu has again the ONESHIP coupon code for free mail shipping until Nov/14.

Just noticed that BlueMSX has bugs in the disassembly. Anyway I gave a peek. Also I prefer $ instead of # for hexadecimal. At #a0a8 it saves the current state of controller into #60a6 with inverted bits (so bit set to 1 = push). It could be enough to change this routine if you want to change mappings. At #853e it calls the routine to read the controller and saves value still in A also into register C. At #8561 it starts testing the C register for movements #8565 bit 0,a = test for left #8572 bit 2,a = test for right #857f bit 3,a = test for up #858c bit 1,a = test for down At #85ae bit 3,(hl) = test for up but using #60a6. At #85d9 bit 0,(hl) and bit 2,(hl) = test for left/right using #60a6.