Author: Paul Petersson
Date: 16:20:26 12/02/97
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On December 02, 1997 at 10:51:38, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On December 02, 1997 at 06:46:23, Karsten Bauermeister wrote: > >>Hello Bob, hello Thoralf >> >>how about giving / testing crafty to / in Sweden? Many people in the >>world would be very interested in knowing, how Crafty does there. >>Especially I would! >> >>Karsten > >this is sort of doable now. Last time anyone tried, auto232 seemed to >be working, but it is a very "touchy" piece of software that (in my >case) >likes to misbehave as hardware changes, because the timing changes. IE >it doesn't like to get a response move too quickly after sending a move. >I have a delay mechanism that is adjustable, but this simply makes the >entire procedure unreliable at times. > >I can now burn a CD with a complete ready-to-run install on it, which I >couldn't do a few months ago. This would make it fairly easy to >distribute >a decent book with learning already "in place". > >however, from statements the SSDF guys have made in the past, they >primarily >test "commercial programs". I'm not sure why, but can speculate that >there >are enough "amateur" programs that it would increase their workload by a >huge amount should they also include the host of amateur programs that >are >now "public"... > >Tony Hedlund played some crafty vs X games a year ago helping me debug >the >auto232 code, however. It depends on whether they want to test or >not... We would very much like to test Crafty. In fact, I know that Thoralf has been waiting for a ready-to-run CD ever since you said you could make one. I can assure you it will be tested as soon as possible. So, please send it to Thoralf. Paul
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