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Subject: Re: Novag Star Sapphire strength

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 08:06:54 09/22/03

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On September 19, 2003 at 04:19:30, bryan whitby wrote:

>Nothing to do with the Star Sapphire playing strength but have you seen those
>terrible graphics. There similar to old LCD displays from the very first
>generation of dedicated hand held chess computers all those years ago.
>If I was going to pay the ammount of money Novag want for their new model, I
>would expect decent chess graphics. I have produced the 'Challenger' chess
>pieces that are available now for the Palm Chess Tiger and in the future for the
>Pocket ChessGenius and PocketGrandmaster. Believe me, anyone could have produced
>better graphics than those Novag ones.


You're 100% right.  It completely turned me off on any possibility of acquiring
(or even lusting after) one of those units.  I'll stock with my Palm and my
Pocket PC.  If I need something stronger (certainly not necessary to defeat
me!), I'll use my PC.



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