Tinkering with Novag UCB...
Moderators: Harvey Williamson, Steve B, Watchman
Forum rules
This textbox is used to restore diagrams posted with the fen tag before the upgrade.
This textbox is used to restore diagrams posted with the fen tag before the upgrade.
Tinkering with Novag UCB...
... and Sargon II on the Apple II.
I have reverse engineered a bit Sargon II on the Apple II to make it exchange moves and receive some commands (choice of colors, level, switch to graphics)through the serial port, which allowed me to connect it to my Novag Universal Chessboard:
https://youtu.be/HjTEKvogtpk
-Alain
I have reverse engineered a bit Sargon II on the Apple II to make it exchange moves and receive some commands (choice of colors, level, switch to graphics)through the serial port, which allowed me to connect it to my Novag Universal Chessboard:
https://youtu.be/HjTEKvogtpk
-Alain
- spacious_mind
- Senior Member
- Posts: 4005
- Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:20 pm
- Location: Alabama
- Contact:
Re: Tinkering with Novag UCB...
Hi Alain,Alain wrote:... and Sargon II on the Apple II.
I have reverse engineered a bit Sargon II on the Apple II to make it exchange moves and receive some commands (choice of colors, level, switch to graphics)through the serial port, which allowed me to connect it to my Novag Universal Chessboard:
https://youtu.be/HjTEKvogtpk
-Alain
Wow would be fantastic if you could make old home pc programs work on Novag Universal Chess Board.
Regards
Nick
Nick
Re: Tinkering with Novag UCB...
this is unlikely: I am a 6502 guy, that's why Par Excellence & Milano are my favoritesspacious_mind wrote:Wow would be fantastic if you could make old home pc programs work on Novag Universal Chess Board.
Best regards,
Alain
- dedicate computers
- Member
- Posts: 460
- Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2007 2:13 am
- Location: São Paulo
apple commands
Hi Alain,
Always with technology and for those who are accustomed to the commands of Pc-microsoft, these you typed is a torture to understand.
Regards
Oswaldo
Always with technology and for those who are accustomed to the commands of Pc-microsoft, these you typed is a torture to understand.
Regards
Oswaldo
- spacious_mind
- Senior Member
- Posts: 4005
- Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:20 pm
- Location: Alabama
- Contact:
Re: Tinkering with Novag UCB...
That's what I meant Z80, 6502 and 68000 Sinclair, Commodores, Atari's and Apples....but no Oranges!Alain wrote:this is unlikely: I am a 6502 guy, that's why Par Excellence & Milano are my favoritesspacious_mind wrote:Wow would be fantastic if you could make old home pc programs work on Novag Universal Chess Board.
Best regards,
Alain
Best regards
Nick
Yup, in fact I was able to attend this year a gathering around the Apple II, Kansas Fest where we were 100 during a week ! And hacking Sargon was my entry in the small hack competition there.Murat wrote:That's an Apple IIc plus. Brings back memories.
In fact, my initial goal was to be able to automate program vs program games and maybe play Apple II vs dedicated machines but I don't think that the Apple II's programs have any change against a dedicated machine with a serial port: I think that in all games I played between Sargon III on the Apple II and the Par Excellence, Par won. Dedicated with serial port are even stronger...spacious_mind wrote:That's what I meant Z80, 6502 and 68000 Sinclair, Commodores, Atari's and Apples....but no Oranges!
To make a long story short, I'll try to hack into other Apple II programs, I am not even sure to succeed here. Machines that I don't know so well are non-starter: you have to reverse engineer assembly code to find where it reads and output moves, so no Sinclair, Commodore ou Atari either, at least not by me
- spacious_mind
- Senior Member
- Posts: 4005
- Joined: Wed Aug 01, 2007 10:20 pm
- Location: Alabama
- Contact:
Hi Alain,Alain wrote:Yup, in fact I was able to attend this year a gathering around the Apple II, Kansas Fest where we were 100 during a week ! And hacking Sargon was my entry in the small hack competition there.Murat wrote:That's an Apple IIc plus. Brings back memories.
In fact, my initial goal was to be able to automate program vs program games and maybe play Apple II vs dedicated machines but I don't think that the Apple II's programs have any change against a dedicated machine with a serial port: I think that in all games I played between Sargon III on the Apple II and the Par Excellence, Par won. Dedicated with serial port are even stronger...spacious_mind wrote:That's what I meant Z80, 6502 and 68000 Sinclair, Commodores, Atari's and Apples....but no Oranges!
To make a long story short, I'll try to hack into other Apple II programs, I am not even sure to succeed here. Machines that I don't know so well are non-starter: you have to reverse engineer assembly code to find where it reads and output moves, so no Sinclair, Commodore ou Atari either, at least not by me
Yes, these old home computers at 1 Mhz just don't have the speed to beat a Par Ex. I collected a few Apple computers as well. I have the IIc, IIe and II plus.
Best regards
Nick
Nick
I love the 6502, or at least I did back in the day. I learned to program (in assembler) on a Rockwell AIM-65 back in the late seventies. I used 6502's in a few industrial controllers I designed in the 80's. Then I learned about microcontrollers, and went in a different direction...
There's a company that makes kits that recreate some of the classic computers such as Apple II, MOS-65 (I think that's what it was called), and a few others, using new boards and done in miniature (though fully functional). You could possibly run old games on those. I'll try to find the URL and post it here.
There's a company that makes kits that recreate some of the classic computers such as Apple II, MOS-65 (I think that's what it was called), and a few others, using new boards and done in miniature (though fully functional). You could possibly run old games on those. I'll try to find the URL and post it here.
Cheers,
Jeff B.
Jeff B.