Emulator for the Tasc Final ChessCard
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Emulator for the Tasc Final ChessCard
Hi,
in the last days the MAME developer 'hap' has implemented the drivers for the Tasc Final Chesscard (many thanks to him for this great work!),
and so I've created a new ready-to-use package Tasc-FCC - this emulates the Final ChessCard for PC and C64!
You can find the download link (together with CB-Emu and MessChess) on my homepage:
https://fhub.jimdo.com/
Regards,
Franz
in the last days the MAME developer 'hap' has implemented the drivers for the Tasc Final Chesscard (many thanks to him for this great work!),
and so I've created a new ready-to-use package Tasc-FCC - this emulates the Final ChessCard for PC and C64!
You can find the download link (together with CB-Emu and MessChess) on my homepage:
https://fhub.jimdo.com/
Regards,
Franz
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Re: Emulator for the Tasc Final ChessCard
You, Sir, are a scholar and a gentleman! Thank you for making this available.fhub wrote:in the last days the MAME developer 'hap' has implemented the drivers for the Tasc Final Chesscard (many thanks to him for this great work!),
and so I've created a new ready-to-use package Tasc-FCC - this emulates the Final ChessCard for PC and C64!
Thank you for an interesting game.
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The gui of the chess machines was always a pleasure to use.
Nearly perfect to use.
Astonishing how much ahead it was at its time.
We don’t know much about the 8 but Software. We know more about the later risc chess machines with Schroeder and the king.
But this is a chance. We can today invest research ...
Nearly perfect to use.
Astonishing how much ahead it was at its time.
We don’t know much about the 8 but Software. We know more about the later risc chess machines with Schroeder and the king.
But this is a chance. We can today invest research ...
What seems like a fairy tale today may be reality tomorrow.
Here we have a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow....
Here we have a fairy tale of the day after tomorrow....
Re: Emulator for the Tasc Final ChessCard
Hi,
now also the Tasc ChessMachine (ver. 2.1/2.3/3.1) with the engines Gideon 2.1 and TheKing 0.5/1.0/2.20 are implemented in my new version Tasc-Emu.
Many thanks to the MAME developer 'hap' for writing the hardware drivers for these Tasc chess cards!
The ready-to-use package is available from my website:
https://fhub.jimdo.com/
Regards,
Franz
now also the Tasc ChessMachine (ver. 2.1/2.3/3.1) with the engines Gideon 2.1 and TheKing 0.5/1.0/2.20 are implemented in my new version Tasc-Emu.
Many thanks to the MAME developer 'hap' for writing the hardware drivers for these Tasc chess cards!
The ready-to-use package is available from my website:
https://fhub.jimdo.com/
Regards,
Franz
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Amazing GUI
Hi Franz,
Many thanks! It's years since I played with the ChessMachine GUI, but what a pleasure it is to use. It is really well thought out.
Steve
Many thanks! It's years since I played with the ChessMachine GUI, but what a pleasure it is to use. It is really well thought out.
Steve
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Franz, thank you so much for your emulator work. I have so much fun with the CB-Emu program (especially the MESS chess implementation), and I recently discovered your TASC Emu. I have a question about that. Whenever I try to go into the machine configuration to increase the emulation speed, whenever I try to open the program, I get DOS type errors, and the program won't start. If I try to change the emulation speed back to its initial value of 1, the errors persist.
Do you know a solution for this? If it matters, I'm running the emulation on a Windows 10 machine.
Do you know a solution for this? If it matters, I'm running the emulation on a Windows 10 machine.
Hello Tracy,
I remember facing similar issues back in time; a couple of files can get "corrupted" in either way I didn't bother to find out.
I got rid of those:
- reinstal a brand new, clean Tasc-Emu directory from Franz's package
- assuming you use the 286 host (this one puts less workload on your computer, without any impact on the Tasc card performance), create a backup copy of nvram\at286\mb_rtc file, named mb_rtc.bak; create as well a backup copy of ini\at286.ini, named at286.bak (simply, each in its origin directory)
- in Tasc-Emu root directory, create a small batch file, named as you wish, for example TascCM.batNow, instead of launching Tasc-Emu.exe, launch the .bat file.
Hope this helps,
Tibono
I remember facing similar issues back in time; a couple of files can get "corrupted" in either way I didn't bother to find out.
I got rid of those:
- reinstal a brand new, clean Tasc-Emu directory from Franz's package
- assuming you use the 286 host (this one puts less workload on your computer, without any impact on the Tasc card performance), create a backup copy of nvram\at286\mb_rtc file, named mb_rtc.bak; create as well a backup copy of ini\at286.ini, named at286.bak (simply, each in its origin directory)
- in Tasc-Emu root directory, create a small batch file, named as you wish, for example TascCM.bat
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@echo off
copy nvram\at286\mb_rtc.bak nvram\at286\mb_rtc
copy ini\at286.bak ini\at286.ini
cls
echo *** Tasc ChessMachine ARM 2 @15Mhz host PC AT 286 @8Mhz ***
Tasc-Emu at286 chessm31a
Hope this helps,
Tibono
one more tip: should you want to use emulation speed-ups (and should your host computer be able to!), now you need to edit your source at286.bakset speed, and adjust frameskip accordingly...
I usually run the Tasc Chess Machine emulator at speed 1.0; but for you I tried quick tests at speed 2.0 & 4.0; I couldn't get the DOS errors you faced.
Cheers,
Tibono
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#
# CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS
#
autoframeskip 0
frameskip 5
seconds_to_run 0
throttle 1
sleep 1
speed 1.0
refreshspeed 0
I usually run the Tasc Chess Machine emulator at speed 1.0; but for you I tried quick tests at speed 2.0 & 4.0; I couldn't get the DOS errors you faced.
Cheers,
Tibono
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i wonder who the source is for these emulations?
I see some fairly rare computers have been emulated
the TSB IV La Regence or Scisys President for example
very few collectors own these computers..i doubt there are more then a handful of each in existence today
is there one main source for the Emu's?
is the source public knowledge?
if so..i am betting a collector with a huge collection is providing the eprom readouts
Curious Regards
Steve
I see some fairly rare computers have been emulated
the TSB IV La Regence or Scisys President for example
very few collectors own these computers..i doubt there are more then a handful of each in existence today
is there one main source for the Emu's?
is the source public knowledge?
if so..i am betting a collector with a huge collection is providing the eprom readouts
Curious Regards
Steve
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I did these things, and now the errors are gone. However, I can't seem to get the emulator speed changes to actually take effect. For example, if I sent the speed to 2.0, then open the game, and try to play a game set at 60 sec/move, it is still taking the entire 60 seconds and not the 30 seconds I would expect. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?Tibono2 wrote:one more tip: should you want to use emulation speed-ups (and should your host computer be able to!), now you need to edit your source at286.bakset speed, and adjust frameskip accordingly...Code: Select all
# # CORE PERFORMANCE OPTIONS # autoframeskip 0 frameskip 5 seconds_to_run 0 throttle 1 sleep 1 speed 1.0 refreshspeed 0
I usually run the Tasc Chess Machine emulator at speed 1.0; but for you I tried quick tests at speed 2.0 & 4.0; I couldn't get the DOS errors you faced.
Cheers,
Tibono