Comments on: Actionscript, chess and the quest for performance

By: super mario

super mario — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:57:41 +0000

Very nice article. Thanks…

By: Armand Niculescu

Armand Niculescu — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:09:05 +0000

Yep, there was a lot of assembler in the early games and some very very optimized checks. I had a chess game that run on a 8bit ZX Spectrum, can’t remember how good it was but I recall that at its strongest level it used to ‘think’ for half an hour…

You’d be surprised how much assembler used to be in games… nowadays it’s like a lost art.

By: bLaf

bLaf — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:42:24 +0000

Yeah, AS3 is pretty slow compared to C, but I was wondering how did they do games like “Chessmaster” back in late 1980-ies.. The CPUs were very slow back then(at least compared to the CPUs we have today), but Chessmaster was still hard to beat. Did they use ASM to code the most processor intensive parts?(I highly doubt that, because programming game logic in ASM seems to be very tiresome) Or did they use some special algorithm optimizations.. hmm..

Regards

By: robs

robs — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:41:28 +0000

very nice work!

the chess engine is not that strong.. but considering it’s really hard to program it, the engine plays well. (maybe there isn’t much hope for a simple browser app to play well anyway?)

also the ui is very pritty. you may want to think about implementing a standard interface to the ui. like UCI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Chess_Interface).. if you haven’t done that already.

cheers robs

By: little_fox

little_fox — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:42:05 +0000

i use flash very long time, from flash5 to flash9, the AS3 is the best script, i like it

By: TTwait

TTwait — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 01:36:46 +0000

AS is a very good script, i like it,so i like flash,but i want to know how to learn it better