http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/tags/zx81/Recent content in Zx81 on Karpoke - Just Another BlogHugo -- 0.167.0esSun, 08 Mar 2015 13:31:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/03/08/the-greatest-program-ever-written/Sun, 08 Mar 2015 13:31:00 +0100http://karpoke.ignaciocano.com/2015/03/08/the-greatest-program-ever-written/<blockquote> <p>I’m a programmer. I write games. Games programmers get a lot of respect, but none of them, not me, not Carmak, and not Abrash. None of them deserve the honour which I want to bestow on David Horne. This is because David Horne wrote the greatest program ever written: 1k chess on the ZX81. David Horne is not an urban myth. David Horne achieved what many would even now consider impossible. He wrote a chess game, with AI, that ran on a poorly documented, buggy machine that contained only 1k of memory.</p> </blockquote>