Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 09:35:34 06/10/02
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On June 10, 2002 at 02:57:30, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >On June 09, 2002 at 23:34:31, Terry McCracken wrote: > >>On June 09, 2002 at 22:06:36, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote: >> >>>I just notice that if you connect a DGT-baoard to Fritz it would take up half of >>>the CPU time. Have it allways been like this? I tested with ver. 1.03 and 1.04 >>>of the DGT-driver. >>>So if you run engine matches be sure to set the 'connect hardware' to none (or >>>auto232). >>> >>>I have played mostly with Shredder Classic when I use the DGT-board and there I >>>don't see any such failure, but it stoped sometimes to move so I decided to give >>>Fritz a try. I'm not 100% sure that my trouble with Shredder isn't a user >>>problem since it wasn't me that played. >>> >>>Odd Gunnar >> >>If you use the DGT Board through USB, which you need a converter, it will not >>use resources and likely little CPU cycles. >>OTOH the USB converter doesn't work with the new driver 1.04 but works well with >>1.03. > >Hmm.. USB, that doesn't work with NT or ...? It seems a bit too much to both >change the OS and add a converter. And all because the DGT programmer did a >simple shortcut when making the device driver. The comm-port input on a Win32OS >signal an event when the board send field_update message so there should be no >need to make a loop here without a timeout on the port. Here's a link to Belkin and USB Serial Adapters. http://www.usbstuff.com/serial.html > >Well, i just stick to the Classic gui then. I have build in dgt support (and >sound) for my own engine so it will run in console mode when I play against it. > >By the way, is it the Dgt Project group that make the device driver for >Chessbase, and not Chessbase themself? Yes I believe DGT Projects make the device driver. > >Odd Gunnar > >> >>There is a bit of fuzziness when using a USB to Serial conversion, but >>communication breaks down using the latest 1.04 driver. >> >>Jeroen got it to work with the latest driver, but I can't duplicate his results. >> >>Regards, >> Terry McCracken Terry
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