Author: Kerry McDermott
Date: 20:24:18 08/16/02
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On August 16, 2002 at 15:49:34, John Merlino wrote: >On August 16, 2002 at 15:34:05, Stuzzi Kadent wrote: > >>On August 16, 2002 at 14:18:56, John Merlino wrote: >> >> >>>At its highest setting (which could take forever to make a move), I would say >>>that the original Gameboy version played no better than 1750. At a more >>>reasonable time control, it was probably less than 1600. >>> >>>The Gameboy Advance version was done by Ubi Soft programmers in Romania. I >>>honestly do not know if they used the same engine that was in the Gameboy >>>version, or if they used something else. We did send them our PC code and >>>artwork for them to use (as a guide, if nothing else), but I don't know how >>>much, if any, was applicable to their program. >>> >>>jm >> >>I am puzzled by what could be a callous attitude to the franchise. Programming a >>specific machine's hardware is one thing, but I wonder why they do not ask the >>original Chessmaster programmers to do their best to scale down their chess >>engine size to ensure the basis remains as good as possible. Such as pruning it >>to 32K or whatever, and then let conversion programmers implement that. Rather >>than employ hardware specific programmers with no particular record in Chess >>programs to make all the decisions. Why Romania for instance? Because it is >>cheap? What is wrong with America? >>I don't know, I just wish I got the feelings companies cared. > >The companies cared enough to make a new Gameboy version, which is more than the >last three owners of Chessmaster bothered to do. And the programmers in Romania >have done several Gameboy products, so they know what they're doing. Sure, they >are probably cheaper than having it done in America (as is every other country, >I expect), but they are also good. > >Ubi Soft is a French company, not an American one. They are based in Paris and >they have development houses around the world. They assign products based on the >appropriate available development team. Cost is, of course, an issue, but I'm >glad that THEY did it rather than the Windows team, who collectively have zero >experience with anything other than Windows (well, a little bit of Mac, but >that's going back several years). > >jm I recently purchased TouchChess by Excalibur. I was looking for info on it and came across this web site that gives some details re: Chessmaster Gameboy. Hope it is helpful. http://home.earthlink.net/~kantack/lcdchess/exclvgmby.htm Regards, Kerry
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