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UPDATE: WORKING NOW! These rechargeable batteries are new with clean shiny contacts. I had even cleaned all terminals with contact cleaner to no avail. I most recently lightly brushed the battery terminals with an ultra fine grit sandpaper and tried again...the wonderful Super Forte came to life!! :)

Hi Guys, My perfectly working (with regular batteries or AC) Super Forte will not power on with rechargeable batteries. These are new fully charged and conditioned PowerEx batteries. They will power other Novag computers just fine such as the Obsidian and Emerald. Has anyone else had such an experie...

After spraying some contact cleaner and pressing the switch 50+ times it finally exited the mode. Some oxidation must exist, hopefully it will work itself out with use

Hi, I bought a used Citrine and have a problem where the machine allows me to enter options mode via the menu button but pressing the button once in options does nothing! I have no way of exiting options mode, thus no way of changing any settings. I hit the reset button of course and even cleaned th...

Thanks for doing that Larry. I appreciate it. It would have been a nice feature.

Hello, Can the Citrine be used as a Universal chess board so I’m able to play my Sapphire on it? If not has anyone ever modified one to allow such a connection? (I’m not interested in a PC connection) thanks

Hi Guys, I'm in need of an English instruction manul for the Saitek RISC 2500, I assume if an electronic version existed it would have found its way to Zenchetta's site by now. Can I use the Montreux manual as a substitute? Is the operation and levels for the two computers exactly the same? Thanks!

Chris Whittington ih...@cityscape.co.uk (Bill Newton) wrote: > > I wonder if this is the Program thats being loaded into the hand held > Psion? > The chess software in the Psion 3a was written by Ren Wu, who programmed the world champion chinese chess program three years ago or so. Its quite a neat...

Hi Guys, does anyone know who the programmer might of been for a chess program created for the Psion 5 PDA (and some Windows CE machines) released by Purple Software ? I’d also like to know about the program itself, estimated ELO, search depth, etc. This program is not to be confused Richard Lang’s...

Hi, I’ve read some comments by users that it plays at above club level. I’m just curious who the “world-renowned chess programmer.” Is that they claim wrote the software.

Hi Nick, thanks for the reply. I’m not sure if it was ever released for the 3a, I’ll have to look into that. To access the website you must go through the way back machine, try this.. https://web.archive.org/web/20000520051813/http://www.purplesoft.com/ The 5mx is more powerful and faster so if it i...

Hi Guys, does anyone know who the programmer might of been for a chess program created for the Psion 5 PDA (and some Windows CE machines) released by Purple Software ? I’d also like to know about the program itself, estimated ELO, search depth, etc. This program is not to be confused Richard Lang’s ...

very interesting. Thanks for the information and the link!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Novag-Constellation-Expert-853-Chess-computer-Untested-/172799730863?hash=item283baaa4af:g:VsEAAOSwVGhZfdAC Relatively rare at this clock speed, but the seller is pulling the " can't test it" trick. The main board looks like was left in the rain, but you never kn...

Hi, I came across these novag pamphlets in an eBay auction listing. I have never seen them before and was curious if anyone knew anything about them. I searched the internet but could not find any reference of Salov playing a Novag machine. Mark www.imagetavern.com/album/FullSizeRender.jpg It seems ...