Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 18:48:30 08/04/01
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On August 04, 2001 at 10:49:20, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >Hi Vincent, > >live or not live from money for a chess program. >For me is only important that people have fun, I will not make the big money and >also the most amateur programmers. I think you will make profit with your chess >program, this is OK so you must work hard to give good information about your >program. The best way is a WinBoard Engine because this Engines works under all >important Chess GUIs. But this is your problem, make a UCI version for the >WinBoard Edition CDs and we will see ! This is utter nonsense. For each version of DIEP-windows GUI itself i would need to sell 50 winboard versions to earn the same, and still god knows who is going to pay me, as you can so easily copy winboard versions, everyone can email them around without effort. Of course you can also copy entire cdroms, but the step to do that is much bigger as just copying a few files. Apart from that, perhaps equally important; i am busy making my GUI like this that i won't get much questions on how to install it, whereas with winboard you need hours of writing, and answerring how to get winboard to work! Not to mention parallel versions. explaining how to get a parallel version to work, and that there is difference between win2000 and win98 (parallel version only works under win2000 as it is using the virtual adress space), that's something some people will never learn. What you do in your homepage is very good, giving information and such. I pretty much admire that, because i know what a fulltime job that can be! One of the reasons i didn't spread many beta versions of my GUI yet is because i know how many questions that would raise. Apart from that it would already get tested and judged before it's released. >And for you: >If only one person download the program by Rudolf Huber (SOS) I am very happy >that one person have fun with a free chess program. Only this is important for >me ... hope you understand. I find 1500 downloads pretty small considering the big number of persons that's visiting your homepage. Your homepage definitely is a big success and i can only hope you keep continuing the good job, because CCC took much of the remaining popularity of computerchess away from the partly interested fans. No one can find CCC, they all could read rgcc though! >Shit is, if 0 person make a download !! Well with hundreds of thousands of hits onto your homepage i bet this is not going to happen :) >Best >Frank
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