Author: Jonas Cohonas
Date: 13:17:08 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 15:04:38, Thomas Mayer wrote: >Hi Jonas, > >>I would never buy a program today that was a DOS program, unless the engine was >>winboard compatible, so i could use it under different GUI's, maby Gandalf 5.0 >>can lead the way for a solution to the DOS "problem". > >to clarify that - winboard-engines are not DOS-programs... they have nothing to >do with dos, many of them won't run under pure DOS - They use just a text based >environment under Windows... There is nothing wrong with this - they have a >graphical user interface which will do the user communication... >if you argument like that you might also say - the fritz, chessmaster or tiger >engines are dos programs... is that true ?! :) > >Greets, Thomas That was not what i meant at all, i simply wanted to say that unless the engine in a DOS interface was Winboard compatible i would not bother buying it, because i dislike the DOS interface and inviornment, in other words there should be some kind of bait/reward in buying a DOS prog(chess playing offcause), like being able to run it under winboard, so i can enjoy the playing strength in a windows inviornment. Regards Jonas
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