Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 23:42:32 02/07/03
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On February 08, 2003 at 02:39:17, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >On February 08, 2003 at 01:51:42, Dann Corbit wrote: >>On February 07, 2003 at 13:11:19, Ed Schröder wrote: >>>On February 07, 2003 at 09:11:12, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >>[snip] >>>>I'm still a big fan of the old Rebel-Decade release; I keep on using this >>>>program as a sparring partner for comet. It plays quite attractive chess and in >>>>addtion has got an interesting book. >>>>The GUI is nice, and the program runs smoothly under windows. I can't really >>>>understand why a windows-GUI should be a "must". >>> >>>Wish more would agree with you :) >> >>How about a version that understands Winboard commands? That would be the best >>of all worlds. > >Do you mean a DOS program which understands winboard commands, Dann ? > >I doubt that's really useful, because you need these special pipe-functions from >the win-library in order to poll correctly for input while pondering. I'm afraid >that a DOS engine would sooner or later "hang", just waiting for input. A long >time ago I had tried this. Just a DOS application is not what I am hoping for. Rather a console application that runs under Win32. That might be a lot more doable than a full blown Windows port. I suspect that Ed has most of the work already done, since he was working on a Windows version.
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