ASCII chess game

[tyama501]

I found ASCII chess game.

ASCII-Chess
https://github.com/Parigyan/ASCII-Chess

Forked and enhancement
https://github.com/matthew1796/ASCII-Chess

It uses unicode like
printf("\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588");
for chess grid.

Currently our console cannot display unicodes,
but it may work if we replace with some other ascii codes
and using OpenWatcom?

[ghaerr]

Currently our console cannot display unicodes,
but it may work if we replace with some other ascii codes
and using OpenWatcom?

Can you get a screenshot of either of these programs running on Linux or FreeBSD?

It uses unicode like
printf("\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588");
for chess grid.

Yes this should be easily converted - depending on the glyphs used. If the actual unicode glyphs exist on either PC-98 or IBM PC, then we should somewhat easily be able to handle converting 16-bit unicode to CP 437 (or PC-98's charset). If the glyphs do not exist, then the only option might be to draw the characters using Nano-X from a unicode font, which would be a lot of work.

[tyama501]

It is like this so I think the board can be draw by '|' and '_' ( and color inversion of ' ')

Well, it seems the computer is not working on my linux and the terminal.
I will look it a little more when I have a time.

Thank you.

[ghaerr]

It is like this so I think the board can be draw by '|' and '_' ( and color inversion of ' ')

I agree, it seems like you should be able to port this by conversion of UTF strings to CP437 or PC-98. This might be done using something like:

change:
printf("\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588");
to:
extern char *UTFto437(char *);
printf(UTFto437("\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588\u2588"));

Using a wrapper function might be slower in execution, but could provide a quick way of converting the UTF strings without having to replace them entirely while you're debugging the output.

[ghaerr]

However I would definitely think of "upgrading" 1-9 pieces to P, K, B, R Q and K for better understanding the chessboard!! :)

[toncho11]

There are two Ks, so it could be Ki and Kn.

However I would definitely think of "upgrading" 1-9 pieces to P, K, B, R Q and K for better understanding the chessboard!! :)

[tyama501]

OK, I found why it's not working on Linux.
(I don't know how it worked before but computer now starts to work...)

I will try compiling for elks when I have another time.
May be I will use large K and small k since 1 character is better.

Parigyan/ASCII-Chess#10

[toncho11]

@tyama501 Maybe it will be fun to try compiling this chess game with the new enhanced toolchain from: https://github.com/ghaerr/8086-toolchain