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Subject: Re: New SSDF rating list

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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