Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 23:12:29 02/23/98
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On February 23, 1998 at 17:15:36, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >Whew! Sounds like a legal quagmire if I ever heard of one. > >Fortunately there is a new piece-recognition style board out for >or from the Fritz machine people that should be interfacable to others. >Unlike the Novag universal board which I believe does not have piece >recognition. It may have piece recognition, but it does not have LEDs. The way it works with Fritz (or is supposed to; it's been delayed for months) is to have Fritz announce the moves with its talking ability. For any other "mute" program, you would have to look at the screen to see what move it was making, and when. This is a serious limitation in my opinion. >My main need is to get one of these so I can interface it to my >own program since I am getting tired of entering all the moves via >keyboards. Adding voice synthesis seems a requirement for this. >Since you "agreed not to sell the Smartboard after July 1st", >is that July 1 of 1997 or July 1 of 1998? If July 1 of 1998, could >I pick up the phone and call 800-645-4710 to buy it now? > >And thanks for all the detail. What a shame that such a good >technology gets so bogged down in this kind of swamp. > >--Stuart As far as I know, you can buy the Smartboard from Bert of Gambitsoft. He will pay the shipping from Germany. You will need to buy an inductor to raise the voltage to 220V. He was making noises about not selling it anymore, but probably could be persuaded to sell one. kp
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