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Subject: Re: Ed Schröder: Can you make Rebel12 engines into UCI engines?

Author: José Carlos

Date: 02:18:15 05/14/03

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On May 14, 2003 at 04:49:38, Harald Faber wrote:

>On May 14, 2003 at 03:12:47, Ed Schröder wrote:
>
>>On May 13, 2003 at 21:06:42, Matthew White wrote:
>>
>>>On May 13, 2003 at 13:23:03, Ed Schröder wrote:
>>>
>>>>Eran,
>>>>
>>>>Thanks for your compliment in the first place. I must disappoint you, if there
>>>>ever will be a Windows version it will be limited to the Lokasoft interface
>>>>only. I have retired from active competition and being commercial, my interest
>>>>in computer chess is limited to playing strength just for the fun of it,
>>>>interface issues are of no interest any longer. I have a fine working DOS
>>>>interface and I am most happy with it.
>>>>
>>>>Nevertheless there still is a small chance there will be a Rebel 12 working
>>>>under the Lokasosft interface, much will depend on my mood to finish that job.
>>>>So now and then I still work a couple of hours on the Lokasoft interface, today
>>>>was such a day and I made some progress, don't hold your breath because tomorrow
>>>>I could drop it with ease for the 20-30th time and take a long rest.
>>>>
>>>>Perhaps the author of this cartoon was right all the time:
>>>>
>>>>http://www.computerschach.de/winrebel.gif
>>>>
>>>>Ed
>>
>>>Ed,
>>>   Would a stack trace help to fix the XP problem, or do you just not have the
>>>interest to get it working? If so, I would understand, but I would love to have
>>>Rebel working at full strength on my XP machine.
>>>
>>>Regards,
>>>Matt
>>
>>Matt, it makes no sense, a phone call to Microsoft learned me that DOS support
>>has been thrown out of XP, it explains my failed tries to get the thing to work
>>under XP. So I gave up because there is nothing to fix.
>>
>>Ed
>
>
>Ed,
>you're a real nice guy, but in this point read it from my lips:
>
>DOS IS DEAD.
>
>Commandline sucks, VESA/VGA suck and full screen too.
>DOS is for old-fashioned dinosaurs who like to have a coal oven and a 14" b/w
>display.

  I must add that yours is a very respectable opinion, but I disagree. So you
have _your_ opinion and I have mine. I like DOS and I like Rebel interface. I'd
like to be able to run Rebel under other interfaces, but that's not incompatible
with liking Rebel interface.

  José C.



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