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Subject: Re: A few programs fear to play at WBEC-Ridderkerk ?

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 18:46:08 09/01/05

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On September 01, 2005 at 21:22:34, A. Cozzie wrote:

>A few things:
>
>1.  This may surprise you, but I have never said Zappa was the best thing since
>sliced bread.  I've said that I think its WCCC performance was very strong, but
>lets face it: its only 11 games.  To be honest, I just feel that Zappa on my
>quad with Erdo's tournament lines can hang with any program/book out there.  It
>might win, it might lose, but it won't get crushed.
>
>2.  I really don't care about equal hardware strength.  I've put months of
>effort into making Zappa run well on my quad, and a lot of money into buy
>hardware and trying to find sponsors.  So has Bob.  So has Vincent.  So has
>Stefan.  So has Chrilly.  If your program can't run on big hardware, its because
>you didn't make the effort.  If single cpu is your game, I won't stop you.  But
>its not mine.

sorry but single cpu is part of the game.
It is not the only part so I do not say that the fact that zappa can run on a
quad is unimportant but it is part of the game and I guess that most of your
potential customers do not have a quad and part of them do not have even a dual
so they may be interested in how well zappa does on a single cpu.

I expect every programmer also to be interested in how well his program does on
a single cpu.

>
>3.  Leo isn't getting a copy of Zappa 2.0 for the next edition because no one is
>going to get a copy until the GUI is ready. It really shouldn't be much longer.
>As soon as Zappa 2.0 is released, Leo can buy a copy and update WBEC, or he can
>tell me he bought a copy while pirating it and update it for WBEC.  Possibly he
>can get a free copy from Vincent.  Its up to him whether or not to do it.

I think that the hint that Leo can pirat Zappa in order to update it for WBEC is
an insult against Leo.

Uri



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