Romulus CHESS and CHESSX
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Romulus chess comes in 2 flavors.  ChessX is harder than Chess.
Originally distributed by tape, now available as RAM images for use with REX#.
REX may also work, I have not tested it.

Generally, to play Romulus, it is easier and less hassle to play the simpler game, CHESS.
CHESSX uses so much memory that REXMGR cannot run at the same time.

Chess is supplied as a ram image called CHESS.BY.
ChessX is supplied as a ram image called CHESXM.BY.

Note: these programs do not run in VirtualT!  Only real hardware!

Let me know if you find any issues.  Steve Adolph


Playing CHESS
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I don't think the manual is online (yet).
Cursor keys to move around the board.
SPACE to select the piece under the cursor.
Cursor keys to move the piece.
ENTER to place the piece.



Loading CHESS.BY
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To play Chess, load the CHESS.BY image into your REX# using the TPDD LOAD function.
Once in REX#, you and "switch" to CHESS at any time.

The CHESS RAM image has HIMEM set correctly

Once CHESS RAM image is loaded (into any bank) you can start Chess by running the program CHESS.BA.
CHESS.BA is simply CALL 44328.
Exit the game with F8.




Loading CHESXM.BY
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To play ChessX, load the CHESXM.BY image into your REX# using the TPDD LOAD function.
Once in REX#, you and "switch" to CHESXM at any time.

Don't do anyting in this RAM image to modify it.  Don't make programs, edit text files... nothing.
The memory is not set up to protect the program.  HIMEM is set to MAXRAM, so the CHESSX program can be damaged.
If the program gets damaged, reload the RAM image into REX# and start over!

Once CHESXM RAM image is loaded (into any bank) you can start ChessX by running the program CHESXM.BA.
CHESXM.BA is simply CALL 42312.
Exit the game with F8.
