Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 11:53:13 06/10/01
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On June 09, 2001 at 15:47:18, Ian Osgood wrote:
>On June 09, 2001 at 14:05:27, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>Ian, you offered to help writting a protocol to connect Chess Tiger for Palm to
>>a PC for automatic play.
>>
>>I asked for more info but you did not answer neither to my message nor to my
>>post here.
>>
>>I guess you were too busy with Crafty?
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>I'm sorry, yes...
>
>I didn't think a protocol would be necessary. You just route all output that
>would have gone to the screen to the serial port (perhaps minus the board
>display), and listen on the serial port for the same commands you would normally
>expect from the user. It would be up to the WinBoard plugin writer to translate
>this dialogue to and from the WinBoard protocol. This is basically what I did
>with the existing SapphireII serial protocol (which I partially had to reverse
>engineer; Novag's documentation was almost a decade out of date).
>
>Ian
OK, but what happens is that the graphical version is not going to accept moves
in algebraic notation anymore.
So instead of forcing you to analyze the output of the text mode version and
program something around it, I can invest a day of work and write something
cleaner, so you receive well formatted moves and other informations from the
program, and that you can send in return well formatted commands for the
program.
In return I would ask you to make your driver available for free so anybody can
use the autoplayer feature (and maybe the SSDF too).
Does it sound acceptable for you?
Christophe
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