Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 15:40:50 10/26/97
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>Posted by Keith Ian Price on October 26, 1997 at 17:54:21: >In Reply to: Re: CSTal posted by Kim Hvarre on October 26, 1997 at 10:22:02: >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. Times are changing, I see comp-comp games 365 days a year on my office on my 8 autoplayer Pc's. Practical and needed but also boring. Now I prefer to play at least 2 times a year against a strong GM. Much more fun! - Ed Schroder - >kp
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