Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! Don't get too merry

Well, I've got a green shamrock; but not wearing it. Hmmmm...

I think now it would be quite appropriate to angry up mALX. After all, her turning green will suit well with this American festivity!


On another note, I bought my current puter in ´09 and have now played over 6000 rounds of chess on it

I used to have chess on my computer, but Microsoft quit packaging it, lol.

If you are looking for a good chess program Arena 3.5 GUI and Stockfish 6 running on it is the way to go. Both are free downloads and quite capable of destroying the current World Champion, Magnus Carlsen.

Although losing every game on it is no longer fun. So perhaps Microsoft chess is better after all.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Mar 18 2015, 05:53 AM

Fixed!


You can´t change the difficulty?

Yes you can. Arena is a GUI and you can install heaps of different programs that can play at all different levels. And yes, Stockfish itself can be scaled down to play at a lower level as well. I guess it sort of defeats the purpose of having such an awesome set up and not using it.

These days I mostly use Stockfish for game analysis of World Championship games. Although going through the last 150 years of chess does take time.

This post has been edited by Winter Wolf: Mar 19 2015, 10:11 AM

Hey, Summer Fox! Got any NES games laying around that you wanna send to me?

What, like Castlevania? Man, I didn't say that I was 150...

That´s not really a requirement

Yes, you can actually beat Microsoft chess occasionally, but it shuts the computer down before you can gloat.

I am looking for the original Chips Challenge (not the remake of it, I don't like the remake). I have kept a VERY old computer around just so I could keep playing Chips.

I have the original FLOPPY disc with Chips Challenge, chess, some tomb raiding game, Tetras, - plus about 20 more Microsoft bundled games on it (!) - but computers don't have slots for floppy discs anymore.

That old computer has a DOS partition with Arena and Daggerfall; and on the other side of the partition is games like: Echo the Dolphin, Sonic the Hedgehog, etc. But it is OLD, with one of those enormous monitors that weighs hundreds of pounds. Back when computers didn't have USB connectors or firewires, lol.



This post has been edited by mALX: Mar 19 2015, 03:32 PM

Last year I copied Chip´s Challenge to a newer computer as a backup. But I still prefer to play it on the oldest puter

I used to have a demo of the original Doom too but seem to have lost it somehow.
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Tonight my dad and I went to a Subaru dealer to stuff our faces with the free food, drink and coffee see the new Outback, plus some other cars

This post has been edited by mirocu: Mar 19 2015, 09:06 PM

Hope you found something to eat that you liked...

I liked the potato salad, pasta salad, regular salad and the garlic bread Outback, Forester and a double cab Izusu. Overall it was a fun evening

Urgh, the UK is currently swamped by clouds of toxic smog.

We had a solar eclipse today. Couldn't see any of it, the damn clouds are so thick.

yeah I woke up early to see it but I just got 'overcast city landscape' instead.

Thankfully the internet is a thing so I can see other people's pictures of it. Looked pretty cool!

..I saw it... ...

We had to get stuff done in work, but around the time of what was going to be the mostest bit of it, I managed to sneak away and stare at the sun (*Warning, danger Will Robinson!) while it did it's most awesome of coincidental things...Then, unfortunately, I had to actually go back and do a bit of work...*Sigh*...Ah, matters cosmic and mundane in perfect wossnames...

But yes, clouds of Parisian smog is currently giving it large across the UK...Awesome...Not...

You mean I missed the eclipse because of French smog?

That adds a whole new level of suckiness.

Sounds good to me too,

I just hope I don´t have to buy anything now