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Subject: Re: The old chess program "OwlChess"

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 21:51:37 01/08/01

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On January 08, 2001 at 23:54:00, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 08, 2001 at 23:35:14, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>On January 08, 2001 at 23:29:50, Will Singleton wrote:
>>
>>>On January 08, 2001 at 23:00:07, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>
>>>>The old program OwlChess that used to come as a Borland demo has had a Win32 SDK
>>>>port made by M. Koelblin.  Here is the source code:
>>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/owlchess.ZIP
>>>>
>>>>Here is the binary:
>>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/chess-engines/new-approach/WChess.exe
>>>
>>>That's pretty neat.  Where do you get this stuff?  I used to use OwlChess on my
>>>old 33mhz compaq, played ok.
>>>
>>>Will
>>
>>It was actually my first Chess program.  Got it off a CD full of Freeware and
>>Shareware.  I was trying to fing a copy of the QBasic game Gorrilla, but it
>>wasn't there.
>>
>>Unfortunatly, this version of Owlchess does not have an opening book, but the
>>original did.  I hope soemone fixes that.  It does have the ability to maximize
>>though, and the old version couldn't do that, so that's cool.
>
>It's called "Opening.lib"
>
>Did I leave it out of the distribution somehow?  The one I have compiled here
>finds it and uses it.

Ok, I had just downloaded the exe file before, and obviously there wasn't one in
that, but I just went and grabbed the source code and there was a copy of
opening.lib in that, problem solved.  Thanks.

Pete



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