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  - BASIC game classics... today: CAMEL (slightly improved version of the original David H. Ahl source)
    07/31/16
    Do you remember the times games only shows text messages ?
    
    David H. Ahl was the editor of two real famous books: "BASIC COMPUTER GAMES" and "MORE BASIC COMPUTER GAMES" in 1979, published from "Workman publishing, New York".
    One of these games I remembere
  - Evolution of vintage PC chess programs (until VGA was used) PART 4
    07/02/16
    GNU Chess appeared earlier than 1990, but the only DOS version I've found was 3.0 and 3.1 (from 1989 and 1990), and version 3.1 offered a slightly polished textmode board...
    
    If you're curious about the (compiled) DOS version, see "related link" below.
    Btw. look at
  - Evolution of vintage PC chess programs (until VGA was used) PART 3
    07/02/16
    Available for many, many platforms, it should not miss in such a list: ChessMaster 2000:
    
    Many (higher) version follows, this one appeared in 1986. Here CGA display was used. ChessMaster 2000 can be run also in graphics mode with Hercules cards (but looks ugly).
    
    EDCHESS was an u
  - Evolution of vintage PC chess programs (until VGA was used) PART 2
    07/02/16
    1983 was the year Chess Partner was created.
    
    Although the graphics was a bit like the VCS 2600 games, it uses color, but it's definitely not the best one at the time it was published.
    
    Then in 1984, Chess 88 arrives, and it plays well (and still on the first IBM PCs).
  - Evolution of vintage PC chess programs (until VGA was used) PART 1
    07/02/16
    Before MS-DOS, CP/M rulez. And there were some chess programs like Sargon already.
    A book for Sargon was published in 1978.
    
    Unfortunately CP/M does not support graphics by default (GSX was not widely used!).
    So the time for (serious) chess programs start with the birth of the IB
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