Chess - Commodore vs Vista

[xlar54]

Being somewhat bored this evening, I decided to pit Sargon II against the Chess Titans app that comes with Vista.  Im pleased to say that Sargon beat the snot out of Chess Titans.  In fairness to Vista, CT was set to "Basic" or "Novice".  But still... they ought to be ashamed

[RobertB]

Im pleased to say that Sargon beat the snot out of Chess Titans.

Time to pit Chessmaster 2000/2100 against Chess Titans! 

             Truly,
             Robert Bernardo
             Fresno Commodore User Group
             http://videocam.net.au/fcug
             The Other Group of Amigoids
             http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
             Southern California Commodore/Amiga Network
             http://www.sccaners.org/

[Andrew Wiskow]

Hooray for the Commodore!

I'd be interested to know how Battle Chess on the C64 fares against Windows Vista, too. 

(I'd try it myself, but I don't have any PC's with Windows Vista)

[xlar54]

Id give it a go...but only under WinVICE.  Battlechess is way too slow on a real 64, to do something like this.  I was surprised at the speed of Sargon actually.

[RobertB]

Battlechess is way too slow on a real 64, to do something like this.

I tried to speed up Battle Chess with a SuperCPU, but it choked on that hardware (though I've never tried it with the TurboMaster).  The Amiga version of Battle Chess is speedier.

                 Truly,
                 Robert Bernardo
                 Fresno Commodore User Group
                 http://videocam.net.au/fcug
                 The Other Group of Amigoids
                 http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/
                 Southern California Commodore/Amiga Network
                 http://www.sccaners.org/

[xlar54]

Under VICE's warp mode, those little fellows move quick - but its not fun if you cant watch the animation   lol

[Andrew Wiskow]

Under VICE's warp mode, those little fellows move quick - but its not fun if you cant watch the animation   lol

I know what you mean...  It's too bad there's no way to use warp mode only when the drive is being accessed.  It's not too bad with JiffyDOS under WinVICE though...