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  • Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …

    ... .php?t=24618&highlight=chess+board&page=22"]this ... , then used as two instruction bytes on looping).


    R-Tape R-Tape March 2013 Development
  • Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …

    ... take up more than 200 bytes (thankfully) However, stick em all ... 300 bytes then 1400 for the graphics. I think my chess board ... display engine was only 70 bytes for the ... written data totalling about 750 bytes and sprites and masks created ...
    jamorski jamorski March 2013 Development
  • Assembler v Machine CodeHi. I've been looking at a lot of the code examples in the Development section and can see that Assembler is the way to go. However, I was wondering …

    ... .php?t=24618&highlight=chess+board&page=22"]this ... , then used as two instruction bytes on looping).[/QUOTE]

    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas March 2013 Development
  • Hunt the WumpusI converted the "Hunt the Wumpus" game from Texas Instrumenst TI99/4 to ZX Spectrum (Wilko Schr?ter wrote a different text-only version some years ag…

    [QUOTE=Dr BEEP;690904]In udg style this would be a screen of 8x8x8 bytes (512) and the rest should be code.
    [/QUOTE]
    I did not mean UDG, but Letters: Q for Queen, K for King. Similar to 1K Chess.
    LCD LCD March 2013 Brand new software
  • Multicolor chess?I thought multicolor chess pieces would be a good idea, since it's easy to fit a 8x8 chessboard within the 9x9 tile area of BIFROST*. However this tu…

    ... , because a couple of hundred bytes storage versus say 100 is ... /> When storing a sequence of chess moves to be replayed later ... /row/column and use 4 bytes. A slight improvement would be ...
    Gedlion Gedlion September 2013 Development
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    Would 1K Chess on the ZX81 count? It's actually 672 bytes, and ... even though it has no Chess Piece style ... that a ZX81 can play Chess is amazing, I think.
    ewgf ewgf May 2014 Development
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    ... 1K Chess on the ZX81 count? It's actually 672 bytes...[/QUOTE ...
    RobeeeJay RobeeeJay May 2014 Development
  • Beautiful codeSome people see beauty or something sublime in maths formulas and equations, can anyone suggest examples of beautiful or sublime programming?

    1K Chess disassembled (chess.asm) and 137 bytes optimized (nchess.asm).

    [ ... /p/emuscriptoria/code/HEAD/tree/chess/[/url]

    Binaries of ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena August 2014 Development
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... [LIST]
    [*]The original ZX81 chess program is not very optimized ... ) and It was 148 bytes smaller. So the record ... to compare is 524 bytes (instead 672).
    [*] ... tetris in 8086 with 212 bytes, but when porting to ... Z80 it was 245 bytes. So we need to ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... [LIST]
    [*]The original ZX81 chess program is not very optimized ... ) and It was 148 bytes smaller. So the record ... to compare is 524 bytes (instead 672).
    [*] ... tetris in 8086 with 212 bytes, but when porting to ... Z80 it was 245 bytes. So we need to ...
    ewgf ewgf February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Coder creates smallest chess game for computers[URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31028787"]Interesting article[/URL] from the BBC about "A French coder has developed what is thought to be t…

    ... it will be a full Chess game and still work on ... think it's possible. 148 bytes is much room in a ...
    antoniovillena antoniovillena February 2015 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Short & Amusing (was: Soduko Solver)Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse: [code] // zcc +zx -vn -startu…

    ... currently smallest chess implementation in the world (at 1400 bytes or so ... about 12k and, like 1k chess for the zx81, includes everything ... comparison to the Spectrum's chess library. I suppose to ... 5-10minutes as the Spectrum chess programs do at highest level ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2015 Development
  • Short & Amusing (was: Soduko Solver)Looking for some ideas for simple but fun programs, I came across this brute force soduko solver which might amuse: [code] // zcc +zx -vn -startu…

    ... play. |
    | o Full legal chess moves. http://www.nanochess.org ... these comments to get 1326 bytes source code (*NIX end-of ...
    Alcoholics Anonymous Alcoholics Anonymous August 2015 Development
  • Chess VariationsI think a good idea would be to have a Spectrum Chess game with all the good variations in : like the Andernach chess variation which is listed in …

    ... /"]1K ZX Chess[/url] by David Horne (1982/1983) - 672 bytes
    bytes
    [url="http://www.nanochess.org/chess.html"]Toledo ... 2015) - 455 bytes
    [url="http://www.nanochess.org/chess.html"]Toledo ...
    Einar Saukas Einar Saukas January 2016 New game ideas
  • New ZX81 1k chess.As per title a new 1k chess program that allows castling En-passant plus under promotion, and unlike the game released last year for PC doesn't cheat…

    I still can't imagine how a chess game is only 1024 (or less) bytes long!
    JuanF. Ramirez JuanF. Ramirez February 2016 Games
  • has anyone thought about putting a chess game on that 1k thats spare in the rom?^

    ... language source code for 1K Chess on the ZX81 is kicking ... . That fitted into about 700 bytes of program space and the ...
    GReW GReW January 2017 Sinclair Miscellaneous
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... new idea to save 31 bytes involves automatically filling 2 bits ... ://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28052510/chess%20pieces%20final%20big%20v4.pdf ... ://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28052510/chess%20pieces%20final%20big%20v4.pdf ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed March 2017 Development
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... 800 bytes.

    [url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28052510/Chess ... ://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28052510/Chess%20Engine.tap[/url]

    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed March 2017 Development
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... its now down to 794 bytes. Also moved it up further ... ://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/28052510/Chess%20Engine%203.tap"]https://dl ... .dropboxusercontent.com/u/28052510/Chess%20Engine%203.tap[/url]
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed March 2017 Development
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... with 'mostly symmetric' images like chess pieces (i.e. they are ... of the two sets of bytes gets used depending on Black ...
    Hikaru Hikaru March 2017 Development
  • Look whats possible in 924 bytesSo, finally after over a year of development and nearly 25 years since I first designed the graphics, I've actually made it to the point where this i…

    ... I did anything on the Chess project.

    I've ... the size down to 777 bytes.

    Slight speed improvements ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed September 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    It is quite hypnotic to watch!

    Back to head scratching now, as I've no more bright ideas to shed more bytes.

    I've actually been reading up on chess engines a bit to try to decide upon some solutions.
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed October 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    730 bytes.

    ..and surprisingly fast ... ://www.dropbox.com/s/thgo61dzy4brjja/chess%20082a.gif?dl=1[/img ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    A bit of twiddling this morning and I've utilised the stack again to great effect, now making it [b]726 bytes![/b]

    Thats 198 bytes saved since the first working version plonked 32 chess pieces on screen!
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... bigger by maybe 10 bytes or so, would increase ... 672 bytes which is the size of ZX81 1K Chess. Wouldn ... save a further 51 bytes on routines that are ... data structure that takes fewer bytes to decode, probably about ... itself is roughly 12 bytes bigger. All of the ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... left. Looking at other Speccy chess sprites, mine do seem to ... />
    Now at [b]722 bytes![/b]
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    I know, obviously ZX81 Chess is a complete game, with ... massive (!) 302 bytes to make some sort of Chess game in.

    Even if I could match 672 bytes ... , it wouldn't come close to achieving what ZX81 Chess ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
  • 1k Chess (was the 924 bytes thing!)Hi, I've decided to do a major rewrite of large parts of the code for the isometric Chess thing that I've been messing with. It got to the point, …

    ... code]
    ;Isometric Chess board display engine version ...
    ret ;24 bytes (+17 data)
    ... br />
    ;145 bytes

    chess_builder ...
    Arkannoyed Arkannoyed November 2017 Development
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