Author: Evgenii Manev
Date: 14:21:05 04/28/05
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On April 28, 2005 at 14:11:15, F. Huber wrote: >On April 28, 2005 at 13:28:23, Dieter Buerssner wrote: > >>On April 28, 2005 at 11:08:56, F. Huber wrote: >> >>Did you check, if "move now", pondering and analysis work? I ask because of ... > >I´ve only found that ´move now´ is definitely _not_ working, Crafty return his >move only when he thinks he is ready with a good move! ;-) >I´ve not tried ponder or analysis yet, because I don´t like to waste my time >with such an old engine, especially if it makes troubles ... > >>>this may be the reason for the problems with staying in memory after closing >>>the engine, > >>Yes. This may be a similar problem - the engine cannot detect when the pipe was >>closed. But normally, the GUI should send quit first - and if it is nice, it >>would send quit when the engine is not searching (when the engine is waiting >>anyway during a game with ponder off, for example). Then quitting should work. > >I don´t know, how ´nice´ Arena is in this case!? ;-) >But as already mentioned the Crafty engine is _not_ removed from memory, and so >further calls of the engine might make even _more_ problems. > >>> and might also prevent it from running under WinXP at all! > >>For me, DJGPP compiled programs (yes, real DOS programs) with the CWSDPMI >>extender work well in Windows XP. Yace for example works perfectly in console >>mode. It works under WB (when I last tested) for ponder off games. > >Well, I´m quite sure that such DOS programs (even with DPMI extenders) indeed >are working when calling them from the DOS prompt (at least under Win98, I >can´t test it under WinXP), but it might be that this is no longer true, when >they are called from within a Windows program (like Arena)!? yes, in console mode Crafty 9.31 works, but not under any GUI - neither Arena nor Winboard (i'm using Win98) >I remember that I had similar problems with my first matesolver ´MaterUCI´, >when I was using a DOS version of Mater (compiled under TurboPascal 7), which >was then call from my UCI interface - these problems immediately disappeared, >when I compiled Mater under BorlandDelphi as a Windows console program. > >Best regards, >Franz.
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