Chess Oldies, anyone?

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I've been searching for those old chess games, but can't find any on all those abandonware servers... But they can't just have gone, all of them. Psion Chess, Battle Chess... Heh.

Does anyone know of a working link where you can *for sure* find them? Google results won't serve -most of them are crap not even related to the game in mention, but for some reason enlisted as valid results (as always with oldies, heh).

 

If you have an amiga emulator working with your OS the possibilities are endless.

Try this one for example
http://amigos.amiga.hu/ancientoys/aj.html


FOr PC? I dunno. You will have to check with Taluntain. I remember something about it beeing illegal or something. And wouldn't want things to get messy here.

 

Thanks. Here's Chess Software Museum. Everything is perfectly legal there:

http://www.gambit chess.com/pub/progr.htm (erase the space when you copy the link, it would change the middle part into stars if I didn't put a space there)

Not that I was asking for what I could have found myself equally as well: it was by accident that I found this one. Go and check. Psion Chess is the chess of my childhood. Battle Chess is nice, too. I'd like to find Battle Chess 4000 somewhere (it's abandonware and I downloaded it sometime ago before I formatted my disk - now it's gone and I can't find it again ).

 

Check this .

I just saw it's just a demo but other sites directed me to chips and bits. So maybe it isn't abandonware.

 

Abandonware is legally free to copy, download etc. You can still buy original game release disks or CDs from those willing to part with them or from the company if they still have some left. Sometimes, though, abandonware sites webmasters are badly informed. Heh.

[ August 26, 2003, 20:59: Message edited by: chevalier ]

 

Chev, I'm looking for Battle Chess for you. I've seen it before, I just have to find the site I saw it at.

Edit: found it: http://www.bhlegend.com/php/show.php3?game=25

[ August 27, 2003, 08:37: Message edited by: Aikanaro ]

 

Thank you, thank you... *sob* *sob* Aik... any time you come to Poland... a huge beer is waiting for you *sob* *sob* You good friend. Oh wait, you don't like beer... But you'll like Polish booze, sure you will, friend.

 

Tal surely by its very definition abandonware is legal, it is just what the label applies to that causes the problems. If through time or inclination a publisher gives up any copyright on a title, hence it becoming abandonware, that is perfectly legal. Whereas many games found on abandonware sites are those where no one actually does give up their rights to the title, yet cannot be contacted and have not tried to exploit it for financial gain.

And back to the orginal topic, Battle Chess was fantastic, and it was capable of playing a decent game. I remember one title that it didn't show any thinking, and as such you could play exactly the same game time after time. Being a fan (generally not for the game) a fan of the English Opening, that turned out to be a weak point for that program. Sadly I forget the name.

[Which part of my post didn't you understand? Anything copyrighted is illegal to copy until 95 years expire. Something doesn't become "free for all" just because its maker is not actively exploting it. Abandonware is not a term lawyers coined up, it was created by people who pirated the games to mark any old games not officially supported any more, not just the ones which were actually released as freeware later.] -Tal

[ September 01, 2003, 13:36: Message edited by: Taluntain ]

 

English opening and its name?

If it is c4, there is no name as far as I know. Only in sub-variants and battlechess is so poor that I hardly believe its opening book is that complete.

EDIT;
Or do you mean another software chess program? Uups I think you do. I wasn't quite sure what you wrote. Sorry. heh

 

No I think I was confusing there

It was the name of the game I couldn't remember.