Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 12:26:37 12/06/01
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On December 06, 2001 at 14:27:11, Bertil Eklund wrote: >On December 06, 2001 at 12:20:10, Fernando Villegas wrote: > >>Dear Ed: >>I have seen some adds about Rebel Century 4 where it is simply stated that the >>program is not XP compatible. Not that it will be compatible or could be >>compatible in a near future, but just "not compatible" . I understand from that >>sentence you gave up the effort. How is that possible? XP is windows and windows >>is the thing by now, like it or not. I upgrade to XP to get a better OS and so >>is doing lot of people, including those that like to talk of how bad a guy Bill >>has been. Surely people here in CCc is emigrating one by one to XP. We like to >>talk of the old good days of DOS and we like to talk of Linux, but we stay stuck >>with windows because we have hundreds of programs written in that code and so >>on. >>So, what I would like to see in your add is something like "we are working on >>that, Century 4 will run in XP soon". >>I repeat: I just cannot believe you could just drop the thing. I had thought in >>purchasing it the same and run it in my old Armada 266 Mhz, but i changed my >>mind and I will not. Why should I get an old and slow computer from a closet >>just to play century? >>So I say: Century 4 is not compatible with my list of chess purchases for the >>time being. >>My very best and sad regards >>fernando > >Hi! > >I have different OS on my computer, why not keep Win 98 and use it with Century >and other DOS programs. Use XP for the other programs. The update Century4 is >much better then the previous version. The first impression after around 70 >games indicates an enormous improvement! Very good in king-attacks and tactics! >Even more active play then older Rebels. The "castle-bug" seems to be fixed from >the previous version. I really looks forward to the testing! > >Bertil Yes, it was you or Tony who told me about the stubborn refusal of Rebel Century 3.0 to castle with black (in some positions) and I am much grateful for your warning. The strange thing was the bug had nothing to do the castling code, I had not changed a thing, but it was a result of implementing new interface software (the CAT database feature) and because I (overthere) sinned against the programming rules of C++ it sudddenly caused several chess knowledge to misbehave. A programmers nightmare... So you or Tony are at least responsible for a few extra elo points :) Ed
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