Danke, die neue Version ist online - hoffentlich funktioniert alles richtig trotz des 'besonderen' Datums (Freitag der 13.) ...

Diesmal war wieder etwas mehr Aufwand nötig, weil ich neue Treiber ja lieber direkt in MessChess/MessExtra als im neuen MessNew implementiere, aber die Portierung nach Version 0.220 ist mir dann doch gelungen.

Ein Hinweis noch zum Travel Sensor Chess:
Die Taste [SET UP] ist eigentlich missverständlich, weil sie nicht wirklich einen direkten Stellungsaufbau ermöglicht, sondern eigentlich wie ein 'MultiMove' wirkt, d.h. man muß die Züge eingeben, um zur gewünschten Stellung zu kommen. Das entspricht aber genau dem 'Edit-Modus' in MessChess, sodaß zumindest das im Plugin schon mal funktioniert.
Den eigentlichen 'Setup-Modus' konnte ich aber durch direktes Speichern der Stellung im RAM ebenfalls realisieren, wobei nur die Auswahl der Seite am Zug etwas knifflig war.

Grüße,
Franz

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Sean also dumped Excalibur Chess Wizard, which is a rebranded version of CXG Sphinx Seville, and has the same MCU as the old 1988 CXG Sphinx Granada. It is a HMS400 family MCU, so I'll need to write a new CPU emulator for this.

The wiki says it's by Mark Taylor, if there was any doubt about program origins: it has "(c) Copyright Intelligent Chess Software Ltd. 1988" in the ROM.

Question: Does anyone have a Sphinx Royal and/or Supra? Does it also have the HD614042SJ02 MCU? If so, does it have a Sanyo chip for the LCD, or instead cheap digital clocks or stopwatches like with SciSys Turbo 16K?

I happen to have the Supra near me. Here are the insides. Hope you can read what you need ok.



Regards
Nick

Thanks, this confirms that the MCU/ROM is exactly the same one. Do you see any chip on the LCD daughterboard?

I don't see anything but maybe you do:




ps... unless they are underneath, and I have to unscrew it?

Ok I unscrewed it.. no chips just circuit and two red bulbs or whatever you call them.

Regards

Nick

Red bulbs, I don't know what you mean by that.
one 3-pin connector and one 7-pin connector, then it's most likely software controlled and not a stopwatch or wristwatch.

It's the bulbs for the red lights a1 and b1 squares.

Ah ok, 2 leds on the same PCB as the LCD.
If there's no chip for the LCD (or maybe under the LCD panel itself), I still may be able to see how it works by examining port writes.

You will have those lights all along a1 to h1 and h1 to h8 on the Supra. It not only shows the move on the display but also lights the coordinates through the above 16 lights.

Supra shows the moves on the LCD, are you sure? The manual says it's for total time. There's no videos of Supra on youtube, but there's one old video of Royal and I didn't see moves shown on the LCD either.

For that reason, I was (still partially am) suspecting they went for the cheap solution and used a wristwatch or stopwatch IC.

Can you show a photo of the front side of the LCD daughterboard?