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Subject: Re: SmartBoard/UniversalBoard/EtcBoard interfacing

Author: Detlef Pordzik

Date: 15:14:54 03/13/98

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On March 12, 1998 at 19:57:24, Stuart Cracraft wrote:

>Who does the interfacing of these boards to the various
>PC programs? Is it contracted out from the software vendor
>to the FancyBoard manufacturer? Does the programmer of
>the software chess program do it him/herself? Or what?
>
>So far, all I've gotten is "It's proprietary. We don't
>release it to the public" from Novag, and just a big
>black hole with TASC (e.g. /dev/null, no reply, etc.)
>
>The reason I am curious is I want to buy one and interface
>it to my program for ease of play and use.
>
>Thanks,
>--Stuart

To which program ?
At present I can state that " my " TASC board 20 is working fine with
alot of
the top progs.
As there are :
Hiarcs 6 ( using the H3 driver ), Genius 3,5, DOS, Genius 4 ( new; on
GOLD
edition ) + Genius 5, W95, CM 5.500; R8 + R9 - and I repeat this
constantly,
eventhough some comrades report about the need of a so called 4 board
option.
Nope - not on my system. just try the " Silver " driver.
The biggest deal would be, if Marty ( and he really tried - I know that
) and
especially Shredder 3 (?) would be added, too.
In case of Sh 3 I got some hope, 'cause it comes out of Ossi's hit
factory, where the superb.dll was created. Should be possible to add it
to a new Sh 3 version. But that's speculative.
Reality - not one board comes near to the quality + number of useable
progs like
the TB - alas - it's really expensive.

Hope, that helps for your decision, what to do.

ELVIS



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