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Subject: Re: News from the future...

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 12:12:08 05/17/01

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On May 17, 2001 at 14:54:23, Jason Williamson wrote:

>On May 17, 2001 at 13:33:32, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On May 17, 2001 at 12:19:11, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>>
>>>May 17, 2010.
>>>
>>>***** NEW REBEL SOFTWARE ! ******
>>>
>>>The good news:
>>>
>>>The long-awaited new Rebel software ships today. Rebel 20 comes with many nice
>>>features, the best of them is a nice 3D board. All 10-9-8-7-6-5-4 pieces Nalimov
>>>tablebases available. CAP and CAT data in 2 full FMD disks. There are 50
>>>different personalities to play. Opening book with 4 billion moves, all of them
>>>commented by Human World Champion A. Shirov, will fit in only 300 GB of
>>>hard-disk space. A marvelous program!
>>>
>>>In this new version there's support for infrared-port comp-comp matches. No
>>>cables!
>>>
>>>The bad news: it STILL runs only in DOS.
>>
>>Yes!
>>
>>
>>>You'll have to buy a DOS boot disquette
>>
>>
>>Wrong!
>>
>>Rebel 20 will have a Windows emulator!
>>
>>Ed
>>
>
>You mean we will have to run DOSEmu in Linux, then a windows emulator?  AHHH!
>Scary!  :)

Consider the advantages, a bug free Windows :-)

Ed




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