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Subject: Dedicated Chess Computers - Mephisto, cont. ...

Author: Charlie GOLD

Date: 14:20:37 02/04/99


     Amsterdam 68000 Exclusive, 1985 is an A/S wood board with wood pieces. It
can be used in the other two boards. It won the 1985 WMCCC held in The
Netherlands. It has all the features of the MMII plus auto play, programmable
opening, and a stronger program. ROM: 64K, RAM: 16K, MHz: 12, 16bit processor.
     Super Mondial (a 2 came out later), 1986 has all the features of the MMII
in a press sensory board with coordinate LEDS plus more levels, program and show
openings, memory save, 2 LCD screens. It runs on mains/batteries. ROM: 32K, RAM:
8K, MHz: 4.
     Mobil Rebel 5.0, 1986/87 is a hand held key-in with magnetic 3-D, and disc
pieces. It has all the features of the MMII plus teacher, resign, auto play, and
predict mate. It can be used in any of the 3 boards mentioned earlier. ROM: 23K,
RAM: 8K, MHz: 5.
     Dallas Munich, 1986(winner of the 1986 WMCCC held in Texas, USA) is the
large wood board has all the features of the Amsterdam plus infinite time
settings, teacher, larger book(3K), and operates only on mains-like the others.
     Roma 68000 cartridge/module, 1987, can be used with any of the 3 boards. It
was the WMCCC in Italy for 1987 and has all the features of the Dallas, plus
handicap,  novice, mate, and blitz levels.
     MMIV, 1987 in the Mobil mentioned above has all the features of the MMII
plus more levels amd a stronger program. It could also be placed in any of the 3
boards. And, an opening module could be used with it...a first, I think.
Operates on mains/batteries. ROM: 36K, RAM: 8K, MHz: 4.
     Mega IV, 1988 has all the features of the Super Mondial in the same plastic
housing. It is the first 8 bit to have a MASTER RATING(USCF-2209). It has 48
levels of play, select/brute force, rolling display screen, brain off. Runs on
mains/batteries. ROM: 32K, RAM: 8K, MHz: 5.
     Almeria Exclisive 16 bit, 1988 has all the features of the Roma(it can be
used in the other 2 boards)- WMCCC held in Spain. It uses a menu-driven
display(32 dot matrix) and only six keys for inputting, has German/English
choice, save up to 50 games, CMSO memory when off, hash tables, adjustable
contempt choice, and all the features of the Dallas. ROM: 128K, RAM: 512K. Mhz
MHz:








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