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

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 04:59:12 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. 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...
>
>/David

Hi David,

what is Tim thinking about all commercial GUIs with WB support?

For me is absoluty clear that we have:

1) A perfect working Winboard GUI
2) An for me perfect engine protocol

I hope also that in Arena works WB engins perfectly.
Martin Blume (Arena programmer) try 1:1 Winboard native and also in the future
support for ICS.

I believe it's OK if we have more of these great freeware software and hope that
Tim work a long time on WinBoard (101% important).

Best
Frank

PS:
WinBoard is my favorite GUI now many years!



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