Chess is one of the most amazing games that exist on MacOS. Amazing for the fact that an application can be perpetuality updated for so many years across multiple OS iterations, and even ported to multiple CPU architectures at times. Thus, one sees the power of portable source code at work through the Objective-C programming language. And in the case of Chess, its features have not been cut or compromised through the various updates.
Chess has essentially remained the same game, yet remained the hallmark of what portability allows. This was already the case in the beginning as a GUI frontend of GNUChess. Chess has very great presentation, which again, isn't a mistake as Steve Jobs wanted a Chess game that was very elegant.
One could see this a few years prior with the release of the Alice Chess game (Through the Looking Glass) developed by Steve Capps on the Macintosh that Andy Hertzfeld has described on his website Folklore.
(www.folklore.org/Alice.html?sort=date)
And like Through the Looking Glass, the Chess takes the view of an overhead 3D perspective of a chessboard with very well-rendered pieces and a well-presented and elegant chessboard full of detail. Even though I'm a complete idiot when it comes to chess, I can easily admire the work that went into this game, and the effort realized to keep it updated through so many OS iterations, first from NeXTSTEP to OpenSTEP, and then to OSX.
The Previous emulator is emulating a NeXT Workstation with a 32-bit Motorola 68030 processor running at 25MHz, along with the Motorola 68882 FPU. Also included is 64MB's of RAM, DSP audio, a SCSI hard-drive, a MO drive, and a 1120 by 832 4-bit Grayscale display. The operating system shown is NeXTSTEP 1.0.
Music Used:
Google MusicFX Generated:
Alternative Electronic Rock
Synthpop, Haunting
Software Used:
Recorded With OBS Studio
Composed In Kdenlive
Hardware Used:
PC equipped with a
AMD Ryzen 5 5500 CPU
6 Cores Running At 4.2GHz
AMD Radeon RX570 GPU
Windows 11