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Super Hi-Res Chess

I'm the one who started the article on Super Hi-Res Chess, a program I remember fondly from the early Apple II days. Do you know where any reliable-source references can be found about it so the article can be properly referenced? Were there any magazines or books that mentioned it? Did "Hi-Res" in its title have a hyphen in it or not? *Dan T.* (talk) 01:22, 11 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Reply: I have added the only cite I have to the article, one from the ACM that pretty much covers everything in the article. I think Fire in the Valley talked about it, but it is out of print and I no longer have a copy. Hi-res was originally spelled, "HIRES," (all caps), which ensured that no one could pronounce it. It was later spelled Hi-Res, as I did when using it in the name of my program, Super Hi-Res Chess.

Super Hi-Res Chess has been nominated for deletion; do you have anything to add that could save it? I hate to see such an interesting piece of computing history get sent to the dustbin. *Dan T.* (talk) 03:07, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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Continued use of your publications as references

I suggest you start a discussion at WP:COIN concerning your editing. Would your blog and book be considered a reliable source in the contexts you've used them? Perhaps. Should you be adding the information yourself? I think it would be better if you didn't and instead followed WP:COI more closely. --Ronz (talk) 19:13, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Ads, pain in the butt

Go to my preferences, Gadgets and at the end of the first section called "Browsing" there is an option to "Suppress display of the fundraiser banner". If you checkbox that, and save, the messages should stop. Chzz ► 06:09, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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ArbCom elections are now open!

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Speedy deletion nomination of Bumble Sort (Prank Algorithm)

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Hello, Toghome,

Unless you can document this incident with reliable sources, this article will be deleted. We have a higher bar for article verification than we did in the 2000s. Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 01:03, 16 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The story is true, and David Eisenberg went on to be an important individual in the early days of Apple computer. I have included the story of his bumble sort in a factual book about the forgotten heroes of Apple's early history that I'm currently writing. Using the Bumble Sort incident as an introduction to extensive information about the critical work David did at Apple, developing the first-ever introductory tutorial ever shipped with a computer as well as being one of the two programmer-designers responsible for Apple Super-Pilot, a powerful courseware development language that changed education forever. I'm happy for you to delete the article until such time as the new book is published and a proper cite exists. Bruce Tognazzini 17:30, 22 April 2022 (UTC)

And they're trying to delete Super Hi-Res Chess too... the deletionists are after all this computer nostalgia. *Dan T.* (talk) 03:08, 28 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]