Archimedes Chess

[Qjimbo]

After watching the recent Netflix show "The Queen's Gambit", I was reminded of an old Chess program for RISC OS that I had on floppy disk and used the play. I decided to image the floppy to an ADF and try it out on the Raspberry Pi, but it didn't run.

Just wondering if there is any way to get this working?

Interestingly the sourcecode appears to be included in a Spark archive inside the Application.

I zipped up just the !Chess application and uploaded it to my google drive. Would be neat to get this one working again. Unfortunately there's no information in the help file about who actually made it.

Update: It was made by David Pilling and there is a thread about it over at Stardot as well: https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic ... 62&t=20833



zip file link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WdmuYW ... sp=sharing

[Qjimbo]

I had a crawl through the forums and got it working! I put GOARM3JIT 0 at the start of the !Run and GOARM3JIT at the end of it as you suggested in the Manic Miner thread, and it works! I'll have to remember that one

Also just learned about the "ADFRemapVideoMemory <mode> <memory>" command, using the GOARM3JIT plus that in the !Run file (ADFRemapVideoMemory 15 160K) I was also able to get Alien Attack (!Attack), an old space invaders game from an Archimedes World cover disk, working perfectly! Really enjoying all the tools ADDFS has to get old software running!