Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 17:18:00 06/25/98
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On June 25, 1998 at 16:54:00, Stuart Cracraft wrote: >On June 25, 1998 at 11:06:37, Chess Clooectors Worldwide wrote: > >>Can anyone give me an evaluation of TASC's autosensory board. It is called the >>Samrtboard. Is there anything less expensive on the market witht he same quality >>that is less expensive? > >I've heard support for the smartboard is not very good. Due to its >increased complexity, it is likely to be more fragile than a a >regular electronc board. Support is bad because they are too lazy to send descriptions of it to the programmers. I asked whether i could get the description, and they said: no problem, they would email me how to support it. Still need to receive it. >I considered the Smartboard but due to the unclear legal issues >surrounding it in the U.S. as well as the support issues and also >the above complexity issue leading to the possibility of greater failure >rate over the board's lifetime, I bought the Novag Universal board instead, >though without piece-recognition. >Happily, I also obtained the Novag's protocol and interfaced GNU Chess >5.0 (not yet released) to it over the IBM-PC's serial port using some >publicware assembly language for manipulating the PC serial port. The >happy result is being able to play games on a 3D physical board with >full source to make changes to, and at a decent price (free program >and low-priced chessboard.) Interesting, where can i get this stuff, so including the board? >--Stuart
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