Sargon Chess Software

Sargon (or SARGON) is a line of chess-playing software for personal computers. The original SARGON from 1978 was written in assembly language by Dan and Kathleen "Kathe" Spracklen for the Z80-based Wavemate Jupiter III.^[1]

History

SARGON was introduced at the 1978 West Coast Computer Faire where it won the first computer chess tournament held strictly for microcomputers, with a score of 5–0.^[2][3] This success encouraged the authors to seek financial income by selling the program directly to customers. Since magnetic media were not widely available at the time, the authors placed an advert in Byte magazine selling for $15 photocopied listings that would work in any Z80-based microcomputer.^[1] Availability of the source code allowed porting to other machines.^[4] For example, the March–April 1979 issue of Recreational Computing describes a project that converted Sargon to an 8080 program by using macros.^[5] Later the Spracklens were contacted by Hayden Books and a book was published.

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Jupiter

JupiterJupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass one-thousandth that of the Sun, but two-and-a-half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined. Jupiter is one of the brightest objects visible to the naked eye in the night sky, and has been known to ancient civilizations since before recorded history. It is named after the Roman god Jupiter.^[19] When viewed from Earth, Jupiter can be bright enough for its reflected light to cast visible shadows,^[20] and is on average the third-brightest natural object in the night sky after the Moon and Venus.

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Apple ][

Apple ][ in common 1977 configuration with 9'' monochrome monitor, game paddles, and Red Book recommended Panasonic RQ-309DS cassette deck

History

By 1976, Steve Jobs had convinced the product designer Jerry Manock (who had formerly worked at Hewlett Packard designing calculators) to create the "shell" for the Apple II—a smooth case inspired by kitchen appliances that concealed the internal mechanics.^[5] The earliest Apple II's were assembled in Silicon Valley, and later in Texas;^[8] printed circuit boards were manufactured in Ireland and Singapore. The first computers went on sale on June 10, 1977^[9][10] with a MOS Technology 6502 microprocessor running at 1.022,727 MHz (​²⁄₇ of the NTSC color carrier), two game paddles^[11] (bundled until 1980, when they were found to violate FCC regulations),^[12] 4 KiB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs.

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New York, I Love You (2009)

"New York, I Love You" is a 2009 romance film released in the United States on October 16, 2009. From the producer of Paris, je t'aime , it stars an ensemble cast, among them Bradley Cooper , Shia LaBeouf , Natalie Portman , Anton Yelchin , Hayden Christensen , Orlando Bloom , Irrfan Khan , Rachel Bilson , Chris Cooper , Andy García , Christina Ricci , John Hurt , Robin Wright Penn , Julie Christie , Maggie Q , Ethan Hawke and James Caan . The film premiered at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival in September 2008.

PLOT

New York, I Love You is a collective work of eleven short films, with each segment running around 10 minutes long. Some of the actors have international status ( Natalie Portman , Shia LaBeouf , Hayden Christensen , Blake Lively , Orlando Bloom , Rachel Bilson , Ugur Yücel , Irrfan Khan , James Caan , and Christina Ricci ) with each shooting their part in one of New York's five boroughs. Similar to the previous film, Paris, je t'aime , the shorts presented together may interweave slightly; however, they will all tie into the common theme of finding love. New York, I Love You is the second episode of the Cities of Love franchise created and produced by Emmanuel Benbihy .

Watch the Official Trailer in .

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