Author: Michael Cummings
Date: 06:05:34 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 02:10:42, Roger D Davis wrote: >I don't think anyone is going to care if you charge $10 for the CD. I'd just >contact the authors and get their permission to include their engine, and state >that you are asking $10 to pay for the materials, shipping, burning, your >tutorial, and your time. Time is going to be a very big investment at the >beginning, since you have to download everything and get it working. > >If someone objected, their engine just would not be included. They should have >the right to refuse, I think that's only fair, though I doubt anyone would if >the mission is clear and the price is right. > >You could also fix it so that it did an automatic install into Fritz and other >Chessbase programs. So it doesn't have to be limited to Winboard. Could even >include Palm programs. > >You could set up an FTP site and offer the disc image for download (for folks >who have DSL and cable modems, obviously), for $10 billed to their credit card. >That would eliminate your shipping costs. > >Roger > I have through either buying or mainly getting through my work currently on my System about $68,000 (US) worth of web developement programs, adobe graphics software and not to mention multimedia authoring software which takes up the main bulk of the cost. Up to this point I have used this stuff to created simple tutorial stuff for my work and to make some mighty spectacular multmedia presentation which I use for birthday and Christmas cards which incorporates video and some mp3 music, which are quite mind blowing when I burn onto a cd. Up to now I have only ever used this stuff to create some simple animated gifs for my web page and to create a nice, but simple web site. I will look into what it will take to actually get something like this set up. My main problem is that I have haedly used winboard or any of the freeware chess engines cause I just did not enjoy using them, and have only three commercial chess programs, CM6K and earlier versions, Rebel 10, and Shredder2. So it would also have to take some more money for me to actualy go and buy chessbase programs to find out how I would even go about installing engines into these types of programs. But if it is just a simple matter of copying files to ertain directories, then I am sure I would be able to do this without the expense of buying those programs. I put together this afternoon, a little program that will actually install Chessmaster personalities and layouts into the program, or CM6K at least. with an mp3 that plays in the background, "We are the Champions" by Queen. Pretty cool when you start to use these programs for creative purposes, rather than just pure work related stuff.
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