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As for the other way to run these old programs that we Love without usiing dosbox and win 3.1,I I`m all ears! please go ahead and tell us how to d o it! Well, there's a small, powerful tool called 'otvdm' that allows you to directly run 16bit WIndows programs in 64bit Windows. It just uses the 16bi...

The program runs, but I cant make the pieces move. I'll keep trying. Hi, there's an option 'Anticipate' in Chessica which makes the program almost unusable - it's usually called 'Permanent Brain' or 'Ponder', but when this option is activated, the program is responding VERY slowly to any mouse clic...

Hi,

it would be great if we could get a ROM dump of the Brute Force module!
It's the only module that is still missing in the CB-Emu chess emulation.

Regards,
Franz

How long did it take you to do this Well, I've started with CB-Emu about 9 years ago, it's a special version (only for chess computers) of the general emulation system MAME/MESS. Since a few years it's a teamwork, mainly by 'Berger', 'hap' and me, but also some other people have made contributions ...

Dgal58 wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 9:56 pm just a couple of questions do they play at exactly the same strength as the original machines?

Yes, these are exact emulations (using the original ROM programs), so the play 100% identical to the real machines.

Not sure if most people off this board know that you can get all the retro emulations all free from a computer chess site on Facebook providing you have a windows laptop or PC not available for a MAC Well, I'm not using Facebook, but I guess this is just the program CB-Emu_Pro from my website https...

Larry wrote: ↑Fri Sep 17, 2021 6:57 am Fernando brought this site to our attention four or so years back. It had a problem with bugs, causing pieces
to suddenly change colour, or refuse to budge.

Well, alleged program errors have always been an excuse for incorrect operation...

I do not understand fully what you ask from me or what you believe I am doing. I do no pretend to sell nothing, just to help a guy here with something that you yourself give -thanks for that!-, so no damage to anyone, BUT if for some reason that disturbs you, I will NOT send anything to this pal an...

give me your dropbox and I can send you a full package into which you will find Philidor in qemu and Dos versions and many other engines Didn't your read the first lines on my website https://fhub.jimdofree.com/ ? :( "All programs are free and for private use only. It's not permitted to sell o...

larryadler wrote:Hi, is it possible to update the link?

You can always find the newest version on my website: https://fhub.jimdofree.com/

The question is: As for the engine emulation of the dedicated machines, I always had doubts about the performance of the emulation compared to the originals that run on the dedicated machines. As I do not understand programming, I am not able to give a solid opinion, that is, when I play against an...

What about creating a "bootable ISO" with this and let people use it in any VM they want and/or create a USB bootable stick ? Why a bootable CD/ISO? In the link of the 1st posting here there's a boot-HD image in the package Chess-DOS-VM_Top10.zip, so everyone who wants to use it in any ot...

If you still have it, can you give the link please ? Ok, here's the link (will only be valid for one week!): https://c.gmx.net/@317206859884790529/FDdOnjBZRIeC4PKCHr2wuw Would DOS programs run on a bootable USB drive on modern PC's? Also, would they run faster than they do on QEMU? Well, I don't th...

A few years ago, on a now dead chess forum, I saw something similar. It was DOS programs, including the batch file (config.sys and autoexec.bat). They were on a bootable USB stick in MS-DOS. The difference between an emulator and this bootable stick was speed. From usb, the dos programs were runnin...

I asked that because I have a lot of DOS games both in D-Fend and in Qemu. Not sure which to use to get the maximal strength. I suppose I could do some test, but I prefered to ask which definitively is faster than to test.... Well, Qemu is definitely faster than DosBox - how much depends on the pro...