Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 14:55:24 03/13/01
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On March 13, 2001 at 17:27:38, Pete Galati wrote: >On March 13, 2001 at 15:39:46, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>On March 13, 2001 at 14:50:35, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>On March 13, 2001 at 04:43:47, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>> >>>>Hi Pete, >>>> >>>>what engine did you use >>>> (dos or winboard) ? >>>> >>>>Greetings, Uli >>> >>>It was the Dos one. I played it against the Winboard Crafty one move at a time, >>>30 minutes for each move, and since I ran it in Windows ME's Dos, I rebooted for >>>each move. >>> >>>It's set at level 14, and I load the game with "alt L". >> >>This may explain things. I know that "load game" of the DOS engine has never >>been working perfectly okay. I must admit that I neither didn't care too much >>about it; I just got kind of used to it. >> >>Sorry for this inconvenience caused by my laziness. >> >>Perhaps I will cure it this time. > >Not such a huge problem, I usually just work around things that don't work so >well in free programs. It's hard to complain about free stuff. I'll probably >try to load it as an epd to get around the problem. > >> >>BTW why did you have to reboot ? >> >>Regards, Uli > >Yep, every 1/2 move the computer got rebooted. What I did was make a Windows ME >emergency boot floppy, and then I deleted everything on it except command.com, >and that was the only way I could get Dos Comet to use 64mb hashtables. It's >easy with the Winboard or Chessbase versions, but the Winboard version lacks >versatility, and I don't know all that much about the Chessbase interface. > >Pete I usually run it under Win-98 or Win-NT in a DOS box. Before I start, setting an environment variable (in the same DOS box of course). set maxhash=74 This ususally allows larger hash tables (74 MB in this case). But I guess that you have already tried this. May be different under Windows ME ? Uli
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