Yup! I remember it so well. I even remember seeing this ad in a magazine and begging my dad to order it… I was 10 years old, and built it with him.
I also remember going to a home computer sale event in my hometown. No shops were selling computer stuff in that town yet. Men with beards and long hair laughing that I was buying 1k Chess to play on my new computer.
The location for that sale was turned into public toilets.
Oh shit, that’s cool. Did any of you guys do this?
Yup! I remember it so well. I even remember seeing this ad in a magazine and begging my dad to order it… I was 10 years old, and built it with him.
I also remember going to a home computer sale event in my hometown. No shops were selling computer stuff in that town yet. Men with beards and long hair laughing that I was buying 1k Chess to play on my new computer.
The location for that sale was turned into public toilets.
Was that chess program that bad ?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1K_ZX_Chess
https://youtu.be/U8RERRfDYYI
Why were they laughing ? This is a perfectly reasonable chess implementation
It was great. I was 10. I needed to be able to win once in a while, and I did.
They were laughing because they were early neckbeards. They probably had 16k of ram on their fancy BBC Micros.
Oh ok
Thought it was some kind of inside joke
Wow. My parents weren’t cool enough to get it for me.
This was sadly before my time. One of the people in the original post did have one though.