Stockfish 18 for Windows 98

[Juan P. Naar]

Here is a Windows 98 compile (SSE1 and MMX), sources are included, of course.

This was a great guide which made this possible:
https://fanael.github.io/stockfish-on-windows-98.html

To download:
https://mega.nz/file/FJQXSRbK#jI7sY41o1 ... W5ulOzJ6Vk

Build command in Mingw32:

find . -type f -exec touch -r Makefile {} +

make clean

make -j8 build COMP=mingw ARCH=x86-32 \
mmx=yes sse=yes sse2=no ssse3=no sse41=no avx2=no avx512=no \
popcnt=no pext=no prefetch=no \
CXX=i686-w64-mingw32-c++ \
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -fno-exceptions -fno-rtti \
-march=pentium3 -mtune=pentium3 \
-DWINVER=0x0410 -D_WIN32_WINDOWS=0x0410 -D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0400 \
-I/c/stockfish98/winpthreads98/include" \
LDFLAGS="-L/c/stockfish98/winpthreads98/lib \
-Wl,--whole-archive -lwinpthread -Wl,--no-whole-archive \
-static-libgcc -static-libstdc++"

[Ajedrecista]

Hello Juan Pablo:

I am an ocasional retro fan myself. Two weeks ago, I found by chance at home a 3½-inch floppy disk with Windows 95 OSR2 patches for AMD K6-2 3D (350 MHz)... at least this is what the sticker says. I have not got any floppy-disk drive to read it. It served me for know what my first PC was since I only remembered that it had 4 GB of hard disk drive and Energy Star logo when booting... Ah! And the horrible ScanDisk, how can forget that mostly blue and yellow screen of pain? Previously, I used some PCs with Windows 3.1 and 3.11.

Having said that, we must realise that this version will be helpful for very few people (glad for who will find it useful!). According to W3Counter, only 1.56% of PCs were using Windows 98 back in May 2007; things got logically worse in January 2012, when only 0.01% of PCs were using Windows 98 according to GlobalStats statcounter.

Nevertheless, there are always few people that resist in little villages like Astérix and Obélix (honour to them!). I can not find now some news of a PC from 1981 more less that was still (2021, 2022, ...?) working in a factory, workshop, automobile repair shop or something similar. The output was green text in a black background.

We can not forget the systems still working onboard Voyager interestellar probes, which were launched in Summer of 1977. Formerly, I was finding daily reports on PDF at NASA site, but not anymore. Today is not my day of finding things.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[MOBMAT]

This is funny. What is next, Apple II Stockfish?
How about the other way, 64-bit Sargon? LOL

[smatovic]

This is funny. What is next, Apple II Stockfish?
How about the other way, 64-bit Sargon? LOL

"This is a project to bring the code from the book "Sargon a computer chess program" back to life in the modern era"
https://github.com/billforsternz/retro-sargon

Re: History of Memory Wall in Computer Chess?
viewtopic.php?p=856414#p856414

Sargon 1978 UCI Available
viewtopic.php?t=74027

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Srdja