Hello!
I have been searching online for a chessgame written in MM BASIC that I can run on my PicoCalc (pico2w). But I can’t seem to find anything.
Does anyone know if there is such a thing? Thanks.
I suspect that for they most part, writing a credible chess program in Basic would be far to slow to be of any use…
The micros of the 70s and 80s mostly all had chess programs and all of these as far as I recall were written in assembler.
But today we have a system with a CPU 150 times faster and much more memory, so could it be done in Basic?
I had a quick search - yes might be the answer - e.g. from here:
But who wants to port one to MMBasic?
Alternatively I’m sure there must be chess programs written in C (or Python) that you can run on the PicoCalc. Wonder if anyones up for the challenge..
-Gordon
There is a Basic only chess program on thebackshed - search for “picochess”. In addition there is a version that uses a second RP2040 or RP2350 as a co-processor running a compiled version of TSCP. Both may need minor changes to run on the PicoCalc but should be easy enough