MEGA 4 GREAT GAME MACHINE (GGM)
The double-speed version of the Great Game Machine.
This was Applied Concepts version of the Modular Game System on which the Boris Sargon ran. The latest version the Destiny MEGA-4 GGM is very similar, but has a 4 MHz processor that is twice as fast as the original, and will run the STEINITZ-4 program module (not offered to me for testing) which supposed to be an upgrade of Morphy. The Great Game Machine Mega IV can also be used with optional program cartridges to play draughts (checkers), reversi (othello), blackjack (pontoon) and as a monitor for kriegspiel games between two human opponents.
The great drawback of this kind of system is that different games have different input/output requirements and to accommodate them, the MEGA-4 like its predecessors in non-sensory. It has an awkward membrane keyboard, an LCD display and an integral non-sensory chess set. This makes it a very expensive piece of obsolete hardware unless you are seriously interested in the other games it plays, and you can get specialist computers for most of those. Therefore I am surprised that such a machine should be launched in the highly ‘sensory’ market of 1983-1984 and I shall be surprised if it is not a commercial flop.
The MASTER CHESS TRIO concept is central to the Great Game Machine and MEGA-4. The idea of this is that you begin with a specialist openings module, the GRUENFELD EDITION, and when it signals ‘end of book’, the power switch is moved to ‘memory’, enabling the RAM in the computer to hold the position and game variables while the ROM cartridge is withdrawn and replaced by the ROM program, which plays the middle-game (either the Morphy or now the Steinitz Edition) and finally when the endgame stage is signalled, the process may be repeated and the specialist endgame program ROM, the CAPABLANCA EDITION inserted to complete the game.
Excerpt taken from “The New Chess Computer Book” by T. D. Harding - Pergamon Press 1985
So the question needs to be asked was the Destiny MEGA-4 GGM ever released? Where there any made at all? Most sources say no.
But here it is for you to enjoy the DESTINY MEGA-4 GREAT GAME MACHINE - 4 MHz
1983
Steinitz-4 4 MHz
Chess Game Module
1981
Gruenfeld
Chess Openings Module
1981
Gruenfeld-S
Chess Openings Module
Technical Specification
Chafitz Destiny Mega-4 GGM Great Game Machine (1981)
MEGA-4 Closed
Chess Board
Display & Controls
Spacious Mind
Schachcomputer.Info
Active 2017
Tourn. 2015
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MANUFACTURER
PROGRAMMER
Chafitz Inc. / Applied Concepts
Module Dependent
Module Depend
1981
$595.00
Module Depend
Year:
MFR ELO:
Original Price:
Wiki ELO:
Model #:
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My Serial #:
063627
Processor OEM
MOS Tech.
Processor:
6502
Speed:
Type:
8 Bit
2 MHz
ROM:
8 KB
RAM:
2 KB
Battery Type:
Optional
Power Adapter:
10V 60Hz Class 2
Display:
LED 8 Pos 16 Seg
Board Type:
Non Sensory
Overall Size:
Board Size:
8.1/2x8.1/2 in
15.3/4x8.3/4x2
Options Select:
Touch Control
Play Levels:
Game Module
Opening Book:
Game Module
Take Back:
Game Module
Position Setup:
Game Module
Position Verify:
Game Module
Move Analysis:
Display Info:
LED Display
Game Module
Solve Mate:
Game Module
Save Game:
Game Module
Ponder:
Game Module
Search Depth:
Game Module
Provide Hint:
Game Module
Teach Mode:
Game Module
Change Sides:
Game Module
Active Level:
TM Level:
Game Module
Infinite Level:
Game Module
Game Module
Hardware Specification
Game Features
Matchplay & Test ELO Ratings
Computer Game Rating
Rating Test
Other Computer Chess Ratings
USCF
USCF
Spacious Mind
Human Rating
USCF
Chess Digest
CCNS
Ply
FIDE
USCF
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Playing Strength Dependent on Game Module!
1981
Morphy 4 Mhz
Chess Game Module
1981
Capablanca
Chess Endgame Module
1981
Capablanca-S
Chess Endgame Module
