Compucolor Chess

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Compucolor Chess, an early chess program written in 8080 assembly for the Compucolor and Compucolor II home computers, sold on cassette tapes. Compucolor Chess played the Second West Coast Computer Faire Microcomputer Chess Tournament in March 1978 in the "8K or more of memory class A".

=Graphics Characters= The Compucolor II had 64 special graphics characters which are also available have a resolution of 384 x 256. The whole set can be seen in an accompanying photograph and they include chess pieces and card suits. Compucolor II Charater set

=Publications=
 * Editor (1978). Some San Jose Color. Personal Computing, Vol. 2, No. 9, pp. 82 » MCCT 1978, Steve Stuart Chess

=External Links=
 * Software detail - Chess from old-computers.com
 * Compucolor II from Wikipedia

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