Author: Dan Homan
Date: 02:22:47 08/05/98
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On August 05, 1998 at 04:52:41, Dan Homan wrote: >On August 05, 1998 at 03:12:25, Shaun Graham wrote: > >>On August 05, 1998 at 01:01:27, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>On August 05, 1998 at 00:26:06, Shaun Graham wrote: >>> >>>>Not as long as you can provide the best product, especially in strength(though i >>>>must say, Rebel does need to be able to use engines from other programs because >>>>that feature of fritz, is just too easy, time saving and fun to get away from. >>> >>>This problem would be easily solved if all programmers could just spend a >>>couple of hours making their programs xboard/winboard compatible. This would >>>also solve the autoplay problem. >> >>Well if they were compatible with winboard there copyright protection would be >>blown, so that's out. > >How??? I should think it would be quite possible to have effective >copyright protection and be winboard compatitable. In fact, I can think >of no difficulty here at all.... other than the programs would now show >up in huge numbers on the servers. In fact, I would think that the first >commercial program to do this would have a very large sales spike. They >don't even need to be Winboard compatitable, just ICS compatitable - it >would still be possible to do automated testing on a local network. > >In fact, I've always wondered why they don't show up automated already on >the ICS serves... Most top programs are Auto232 compatible, and I >would have guessed that someone would have written an auto232 to ICS >interface by now. > > - Dan > >>> >>>Tord >>>/
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