Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 05:43:35 11/04/03
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On November 04, 2003 at 08:21:15, Matthew Hull wrote: >On November 04, 2003 at 08:04:37, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: > >>Hi guys, >> >>since the new generation of computers tend to suppress com ports (many laptop >>already don't have any, while some desktop lack), I was looking forward for a >>way to test engines on two machines with no com port connection. >> >>I was thinking of using a minimal ICS server on one of the two PC's as mediator. >>Does anybody know if such thing exists? I mean an ICS-like implementation with a >>minimal support of instructions to enable just a game at a time. >>regards >>Franz > >I do engine matches over a network with xboard. At the end of a match, it >outputs a file with the match results. I'm sure you can do the same with >Windboard. I doubt that it's as easy as under Unix, because iirc you need the remote shell to do this. Usually Win-32 systems don't support this by default. Btw, the auto232 of many commercial guys supports auto-play via network. However, you need NT compatible systems to do this. Win-95 or Win-98 won't work. Uli > >Matt
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