Author: Mark Loftus
Date: 01:34:20 07/04/00
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On July 03, 2000 at 04:04:37, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 03, 2000 at 01:19:15, Mark Loftus wrote: > >>Anyways, I tried it and things got worse, and I don't know why. >>I tried to play Comet B23 v B08 in Winboard, B23 never made a move and then I >>could hear the cpu working hard non stop with its noise. Winboard wasn't >>responding to any of my commands, then the blue screen came up with the message >>that the system had become unstable. That blue screen wouldn't go away, and >>CTRL-ALT-DEL did nothing so I hit reset, (probably a mistake). The machine >>rebooted and scanned files and when I went back to Winboard, the winboard.ini >>file was blank, so I reconstructed it. That did no good as WinBoard would not >>work anymore, so I knew it was that kind of night. >> >>After taking a break for a while I decided to download the latest Winboard and >>install that which was ok. Then as soon as I put the command lines in for the >>winboard engines that I have, the program wouldn't work. The dialog box comes >>up, "Fatal Error", "Unrecognized Argument ... " for almost every step in the >>winboard.ini file for the engines. If I eliminated one step it didn't like, >>another command line would come up as unrecogniozed next time, these lines had >>always worked. > >You can download a modified version of my WinBoard.ini at my website. There's >not of engines installed, but it contains everything needed. > >>I probably should have gone to the beach today and left my computer alone, >>now my question is, How can I include the old command lines for my winboard >>engines and have the program still work? > >I agree with the comment made by Aaron. Generally there's a few things you have >to pay attention to: > >1) Make sure you've got all the files needed. For the most part; program, >opening book(s) and configuration file is enough. I think the Comet installation had all its files, and I read his readme file to check it. > >2) The commandline must be correct. Comet just need the name of the executable >(without .exe!) and a path. Other engines may differ and need commands like: >xboard, xb, -hash, config.cui and so on. Theses parameters can be found for a >specific program at > >http://www.in-trier.de/~quisinsky/schach/uebersicht.htm By the way I like Frank's website, a lot of good work there. > >3) Check if there's configuration files that determine hashsize, book on/off, >ponder, tablebases and other changeable features. If you got 64Mb of ram you'll >need to change some of the default values for hashsize. > That's what I have, 64mb ram. Also, I did find an old installation of winboard on one of my zip disks today, so all is not lost. Thanks again, Mogens, this is another learning experience for me. Mark >Hope this helps. > >Best wishes... >Mogens > >http://home1.stofanet.dk/Moq/WinBoard.htm
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