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Subject: [ANN] ChessGenius 1.1 due soon, public beta available

Author: Richard A. Fowell (fowell@netcom.com)

Date: 21:07:33 04/03/00


[Posted for Richard Lang: support@chessgenius.com]

ChessGenius v. 1.1 for Palm should be released soon
     (free upgrade for v1.0 owners)

The current beta testers report no problems, so
a pre-release beta (53 KB) is now at:

http://www.chessgenius.com/beta.htm

for those willing to help give it a last once-over before release.

(motivation: wouldn't you hate to find out it had a
 problem on your machine AFTER it was released?)

 Please report any problems to support@chessgenius.com

If you have any Palm device with OS 3.5 please let us have your comments.
In particular on non-color devices are the default gray scales alright?

If you have a Handspring Visor please report successful operation.

Installation:

If you already have ChessGenius 1.0 just install
over your current version. No need to enter Licence Key again.

New features

* Color and Gray scale support through new 'Colors... /O' menu item

    What this provides is a function of Palm hardware/software:

    Color Palm IIIc: Light and dark board squares can be any color
    Palm OS3.5: Light and dark squares can be any gray scale.
    Palm 0S3.0 to 3.3: Dark squares can be either:
                       dark gray, light gray, black checked (as v1.0),
                       or dark gray checked.
    Palm OS2.0: No greyscale/color support

* Better blitz chess clocks for "big board".
    - both side's time visible as countdown time below board
         for "game in" levels.

* Hardware scroll up/down buttons now function for:
   - game rewind
   - game replay
   - move takeback
   - step forward.

* Switching away from Giant board now returns to previous board size.

* The menu item 'Move Now /M' has been renamed 'Switch sides/Move /M'

* More responsive to key presses, responds even whilst pieces are sliding.

* Black move notation is now not truncated even if the move text is long
      like O-O-O+ or Q8xd2+

[Posted for Richard Lang: support@chessgenius.com]



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