Author: Hannu Wegner
Date: 09:57:04 11/17/98
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On November 16, 1998 at 17:40:25, Christophe Theron wrote: >On November 16, 1998 at 17:21:45, Amir Ban wrote: > >>On November 16, 1998 at 17:09:05, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>On November 16, 1998 at 13:16:59, Ernst A. Heinz wrote: >>> >>>>On November 16, 1998 at 12:59:11, Christophe Theron wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>>When I asked Thorsten to send me the files saved by Chess Tiger, he discovered >>>>>that there were NO saved files. I cannot even know what happened before the >>>>>match stopped. >>>>> >>>>>While I admit that Thorsten goes too far sometimes, in this case there are >>>>>simple facts nobody can deny. >>>> >>>>Just a caveat: >>>> >>>>If Thorsten rebooted the machine before the OS file buffers were flushed, the >>>>missing game scores might have been saved by the programs but simply had no >>>>chance to make it to any permanent location on the disk ... >>>> >>>>=Ernst= >>> >>>Thanks for the tip, Ernst, but >>>1) I don't think Thorsten rebooted the computers in such a way. Tiger did not >>>crash, so there was no need to do so. >>>2) The operating system on Tiger's side was clean (simple DOS). >>>3) there were several games played, meaning that the buffers had several hours >>>to get flushed... >>> >>>It is something else. >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>Perhaps it is this: >> >>I see that Chess Genius running as slave against J5 always saves games with the >>same name (MATCH.255), so only the last game remains. SSDF also reports >>something like this. Seems like the master should invent a different name each >>time, and the J5 autoplayer doesn't. >> >>Amir > > >OK. I am going to ask Thorsten to start a match again and to look for the saved >game(s). > >Thorsten is the only person, to my knowledge, to have both Chess Tiger 11.7 and >Junior5. > >It would be interesting to have at least another independant tester, as the >problem seems to be machine-dependant. Who could do this? I could do this:-))!! I wrote somewhere else allready that it would be a plesure to test your Chess Tiger 11.7. I even would buy it when it is avalable somewhere. I also would like to test the chess 232-pc-board-compability. Do you plan to support pc-boards? Best greetings, Hannu Wegner
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