Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 03:56:53 02/02/02
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On February 02, 2002 at 06:22:17, David Rasmussen wrote: >On February 02, 2002 at 05:36:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>On February 02, 2002 at 03:35:11, Eran wrote: >> >>>. >> >>Hi, >> >>Arena is in Beta Test (at the moment with 173 beta testers all over the world). >> >>Programmer Martin Blume collect impressions and bug reports. After this beta >>test is Arena in Release version freeware. >> >>Important is that Martin get a lot of ideas for the future, so I believe this >>beta test for a new GUI is a good idea. >> >>If you have interest on Beta Testing you can send me the password formular >>"Beta" in my forum. I send then all information via eMail. >> >>Best >>Frank >> >> >>PS: >>I will work in the next days on a good help file. >>This help files will be translated in different languages. >>Also I wait of the OK from my provider for start in the next few days a webpage >>about Arena. You can see all is in beta and so far not ready. But you can start >>the GUI with an English menue system. > >How does Tim Mann feel about all this? It seems that a lot more people are >willing to help with this Arena project than with winboard. Let's not forget >Tim's important work. I bet there are a lot more people using (read testing) Winboard. The only difference is that no one tracks the number of downloads of Winboard, while Frank tracks the number of Arena downloads by making people register. Arena is free like Winboard, and registering is easy and free, I would have expected more than 174 "testers". The numbers are probably lower because knowledge of Arena is probably limited to a few computer chess freaks.. >Of course, it is entirely possible that the two will >coexist and some people might like winboard better. But it is also possible that >Arena will become 100% winboard compatible, gets ICS support, and then extends >the protocol and gets loads of other features so that it just ends up being the >defacto choice of interface. Who knows... Maybe. But Tim Mann owns the protocol? >/David
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