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Subject: Re: Is Arena a freeware? Are you sure? NT

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 04:35:08 02/02/02

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On February 02, 2002 at 06:56:53, Aaron Tay wrote:

>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..

How did you manage to get such an upbeat personality? ;)
Seriously, have you tested Arena? have you tried it out?
Of course ther are more people using Winboard at the moment, Arena Beta version
is 1 day old :)
Frank, i think, is tracking the # of Arena downloads to see how many are
actually testing and you have to "register" only to become a tester, i suspect
when people are done testing there will be no need to "register"

Jonas "king smiley"
Cohonas




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