Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 14:54:21 10/26/97
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On October 26, 1997 at 10:22:02, Kim Hvarre wrote: >Hello Keith, > >When You get it to work, could You please post some games of CSTal. I >would like to see how it plays (style, etc.). Before buy oc... > >Being the happy owner of e.g. CM5000, Rebel 8 & 9, div. Genius, MCP and >tried >just about everything, I'm very interessted in esp. "humanlike" >approaches, now when it's no longer a matter of being beaten. > >Thanks! > >kim Well, I had planned to, but I can't get it to work with Auto232. I know what the problem is, but I am not pleased with what I have to do to get it to work. The problem is that although it's a DOS program, it requires a mouse. You cannot work it through the keyboard, and in fact if there is no mouse, it just quits. Well, I have two computers for doing autoplay, both are Pentium 150s. The one I tried to run it on has a modem on com2, so I tried to run it in /c232 mode, hoping that it wouldn't need a mouse, simply to respond as Black. It just locked up and I had to power cycle. Well in the other, I have removed the modem, and I thought I'd just buy a converter for the auto232 cable and run it off com2, but in that one I have an ATI video card, and the mouse works as an eraser as it moves around the screen, so I suppose I can get it working, but I am tired of messing with it right now. I guess Chris is too busy with Paris right now to get back about the other problems, but I'd say that it doesn't much matter if everyone else is running on 60000Mhz Crays, if his program is so full of bugs, that one can't use it for any of the things one bought it for. For now, I suggest that you do what I will have to do, and download the games from WMCCC to see how my new purchase works... On the other hand, Ed, who realized that winning the WMCCC doesn't really matter to his customers, has already given out the fix to the bug in his install program that prevented Rebel9 from running on my machine, and it is happily involved in a game with Chess Genius 5 right now, looks sort of drawish right now. i had intended it to play CSTal, however. kp
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