Explorer
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Explorer is a computer Go program for the classic Macintosh, written by Martin Muller and released in 1990 at version 3.3. A veteran of the early Computer Go scene, it most famously won the very first Computer Games Olympiad in London in 1989 before being packaged for end users on the Mac.
Playing Go on the Mac
The program plays a full game of Go against a human opponent on the standard board sizes, using Anders Kierulf's Smart Game Board framework as its user interface, move-entry, and game-record layer.
Under the hood
Explorer is written in Modula-2 and ships as a 68k Mac application. It runs comfortably on System 6 through Mac OS 9, with a footprint of around 258 KB on disk.
A piece of computer Go history
Beyond its Olympiad win, Explorer is notable as one of the long-running research engines from the era when computer Go was still considered a hard, mostly unsolved AI problem, decades before neural-network approaches changed the field.
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