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Subject: Re: Dgt support in Fritz

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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