Author: Ian Osgood
Date: 20:40:31 04/01/99
Go up one level in this thread
On April 01, 1999 at 19:36:04, Will Singleton wrote: >On April 01, 1999 at 15:14:05, Ian Osgood wrote: > >> >>An account I run is SapphireII. It is a high quality program, but runs at only >>32 MHz. It is routinely crushed by everything running on P166 or better except >>for a few rank amateur programs. (This is actually pretty good! Kittinger >>wrote some mean assembly.) Search depth is everything in comp-comp games. >>Faster processors prevail in the long run. >> >> > >Hello Ian, > >I appreciate SapphireII being on fics. I use it as a sounding board to test >changes. And I'm amazed at how well it plays, even when in time trouble. Seems >very good positionally, and occasionally shows some tactics too. > >Amateur is one of those "rank amateur" programs, but you've helped me improve >quite a bit. I think I'm finally getting the upper hand, lately (2185 now). > >How did you do the interface? I used to do some assembly i/o, using uarts >hooked to the 6502. > >Will The Sapphire and Diamond models have a serial port. Novag sells a product called the Distributor which translates their serial line signals to standard RS232 signals. The Distributor also comes with documentation on the Sapphire's serial command protocol. I wrote a plugin for WinBoard to communicate with the Sapphire as if it were a standard WinBoard engine, translating gnuchess-like commands into Novag serial commands, and returning the results. The Distributor comes with its own Windows 16-bit interface, but I much prefer WinBoard (esp. since it lets me play on FICS!) Good luck improving Amateur! Ian
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.