Mephisto+Roma

a set of dedicated chess computer modules by Hegener & Glaser released in 1987 for their Mephisto module systems, like its predecessor Mephisto Dallas as 68000 and 68020 versions @ 12 and 14 MHz with 16 and 64 KiB of RAM respectively. Thus, the program was the further development of Richard Lang's Mephisto series, winning the third consecutive title at the WMCCC 1987 in [|Rome] ([|Roma] in Italian), again the site eponym of the computer modules. The Manufacturers Championship was a duel between Hegener & Glaser and Newcrest Technology, where three Mephisto Roma on 68020 @ 25 or 28 MHz outclassed three CXG Sphinx with a Intelligent Software program by David Levy and Mark Taylor, running on a 68020 as well, with a stunning 9:0 result - while the games were more closely than the results suggested. The cheaper Roma II 68000 module was released two years later. || toc =Features= Kaare Danielsen praised Lang's programs in general in his ICCA Journal report of the Rome WMCCC, where Psion, still Lang's development base for his Mephisto programs, also won the Software group :
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 * [[image:Roma68020Modules.jpg link="https://www.flickr.com/photos/10261668@N05/859028792/in/album-72157600922171154/"]] ||~ || **Mephisto Roma**,
 * Roma 68020 ||~ ||^ ||

=Improvements= Monsieur Plastique recalled the original Mephisto Dallas to Roma evolution was considered to be an extremely small one. Improvements of middlegame and endgame and Blitzchess mentioned in the introduction of the Roma manual look like a plain translation from the German Dallas manual.

=UCI Engine= Courtesy of Ed Schröder and Richard Lang, Mephisto Roma is available as [|emulated] UCI engine.

=See also=
 * Demonology
 * Mephisto Almeria
 * Mephisto Dallas
 * Psion

=Manuals=
 * //Mephisto Roma 68000, Roma 68020 - User's Manual//. [|pdf] hosted by Alain Zanchetta
 * //Mephisto Moldul Roma II - Bedienungsanleitung//. (German) [|pdf] hosted by Alain Zanchetta

=Publiations=
 * Kaare Danielsen (**1987**). //The 7th World Microcomputer Chess Championship, Rome, Italy, September 14-20, 1987//. ICCA Journal, Vol. 10, No. 3
 * Göran Grottling (**1987**). //Mr. Lang, wo bleibt die Tiefe? Ein Interview mit Richard Lang//. Modul 4/87, [|pdf] hosted by Hein Veldhuis (German, translation from Swedish PLY magazine)

=Forum Posts=
 * [|Mephisto Roma 68020 elo] by chesspcmac, Hiarcs Forum, July 06, 2012
 * [|Mephisto Roma 68000] by dedicate computers, Hiarcs Forum, June 19, 2014
 * [|Roma 32 32 Bit vs Dallas 32 Bit] by Ricardo Rodulfo, Hiarcs Forum, August 31, 2015 » Mephisto Dallas

=External Links=
 * [|Mephisto's ICGA Tournaments] (including Roma)
 * [|Module Roma II] from The Spacious Mind
 * [|Mephisto Roma 68000] from [|Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto Roma 68020] from [|Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto Roma II] from [|Schachcomputer.info Wiki] (German)
 * [|Mephisto Roma II (Module)] from [|Kurt´s Schachcomputer Homepage] by Kurt Kispert (German)
 * [|Mephisto Roma 32] from [|Museo Español de Computadoras de Ajedrez] (Spanish)
 * [|Back to the 80's with UCI] by Ed Schröder

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