Author: Amir Ban
Date: 06:13:26 09/15/98
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On September 15, 1998 at 07:17:34, Peter Herttrich wrote: >> >>There is no new protocol and interface planned by anybody. > >Amir, so i have a question to you: You will ignore for the future >the Windboard/Xboard interface/protocol ? > If it becomes important, why should I ignore it ? More precisely, how will I be able to afford to ignore it ? If it's not important, why should I invest my time in it ? Are there any winboard tournaments being played ? Are the users demanding winboard compatibility ? Let's ask: SSDF folks ? Shep ? Thorsten (both of you) ? others ? Consider this: I implemented auto232 because I wanted to be tested and rated by people (SDDF and others) who told me they prefer to test automatically, and asked me to implement this, according to this protocol. Redesigning the protocol was not on their mind or mine, because they and I knew that the thing would play games successfully only if done this way. I also support PGN. I don't know why it's designed in this way, but I know that if support it, others can read my games and I can read games. I'm not really interested in why PGN is as it is, but even if I was and knew how to imporove it, I wouldn't do it because then I would no longer be able to exchange games with anyone. I can also read EPD, a notation I was never fully able to understand. So what ? I want to run test-suites, so I support it. If you're still not convinced, go into a US electricity shop, and ask them why they don't sell phones with the much more advantageous French connector ? > >No way for a new protocol over a lan? >Sticking with old unstable/incomplete yunkie-232 Protocol? > >In the moment i get the impression, the better way has no chance, >because it's from the freeware-scene and not from the commercial >one. Sounds and smells very like Micro$oft behavier. > >1.000.000.000 flys can not go wrong, so eat more .... ? > >Amir, this is not a personal attack against you. It's against >the whole group, which favors the old RS232 Interface. > > >Hey, for the xth time, every stupid shoot-em-up-game is able, >to communicate through a lan. >We have 1998, not 1979. > >If every developer would glue at such old standards, where is >the progress? > 1998 ? progress ? Give us a break, we just want to play games automatically. Amir
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