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Subject: Cheap auto232/winboard interface...

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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