Author: Peter Herttrich
Date: 05:04:26 09/30/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 07:22:14, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Peter Herttrich on September 29, 1999 at 06:08:04: >> >>One more time I don't understand, that this auto232 is >>still living. >>Here i repeat one of my favorite questions: >>Why is there no net-support in the chess-programms? >>Every stupid shoot-em-up-game supports network-playing! >>A Lan-Card costs abt $20 or less. >>Win95/98/NT/UNIX/Linux has a tcp/ip-stack. >>Why is this not supported? Look at Xboard under UNIX. > >Can you tell me a bit more? > >How does the principal work? > >And I hope it can be done under W95/98/NT without a Lan-Card? > >Ed > Hi Ed, before i tell u nonsense, ask Tim Mann, the author of Xboard/winboard (mann@pa.dec.com), take some minutes for his chesspage http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/chess.html and look into the source of xboard. Of course u are not forced to use a lancard. u can use xboard through every ip-connection (ppp or slip). But in a local environment lan-cards is the best u can use. A little hub in the corner, some TP-cables and some lancards can be cheap as $200. I have used a linux-box with xboard/crafty and had an automatic game against a solaris-box with gnuchess. No problem. And the gnuchess on the solaris had not to use X or xboard. The engine runs in the background! All features of the remoteshell in the unix-environment. Under M$ there has to be a little server, i think, which can be connected through an ip-adress and a port. This little part has to connect the engines. Ask Bob, he will also have some arguments for lan-playing :-) Ed, when u implement in ur first Windows-Rebel lan-support, u will start a revolution. Think abt machine-machine through the internet. Testpossibilities, u never have thought of. Matches between machines with different OS. And i would like be the first beta-tester at home :-) Peter
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