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Subject: Re: Arena 1.0 by Martin Blume released ...

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 05:31:00 11/27/03

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On November 27, 2003 at 08:16:39, Odd Gunnar Malin wrote:

>On November 27, 2003 at 03:03:35, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>after a long time is the first official release verison of Arena available.
>>Our project for version 1.0 is over and we start now phase two with a lot of new
>>projects for Arena Chess GUI. Thanks to all persons which help us to develops
>>Arena Chess GUI in a really short time.
>>
>>Arena by Martin Blume:
>>http://www.playwitharena.com
>>
>>But ...
>>I need a little bit time for create the setup files for Arena 1.0.
>>
>>At the moment availalbe:
>>
>>Arena 1.0 ZIP file!
>>
>>Arena 1.0 Setup 2:
>>Setup 2 is 5Mb bigger as Setup 2 of Arena 0.95!
>>The reason is that I need a good Setup for publicity information on Shareware
>>and Freeware pages in the next month. For new Gladiators is important to have
>>the important files with one Setup version.
>>
>>Included are:
>>
>>- 40 flags
>>- 40 national anthems
>>- 17 languages by our TORSLATORS "gladiaTORS transLATORS
>>- PGN database by Olivier DEVILLE (good for PGN Random features too)
>>- Arena opening book, created with the PGN Database by Olivier DEVILLE
>>- English move announcements by Jörg Borchardt
>>- and of course, our UCI partner programs!
>>- my favorite graphics and one intro!
>>
>>= 10,8 MB
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>>
>>PS:
>>We have a new language translation = Swedish (by Peter Fendrich)!
>>Arena is now in 17 languages available! Everyone can see how strong a work a
>>good work in a bigger group is. In the last two years we got questions /
>>impresssion / ideas from around 2.000 persons ... better 2.000 Gladiators!
>>
>>The grafic on Arena main page with Ruffian 2.0 in Multi Variants Mode is in
>>Swedish!
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>I just had a quick look, I will try to look deeper later.
>
>As an wb-engine-author:
>- It's a nice feature that you get the inifile up when clicking on configure
>engine. I would have liked that this feature in addition check the file
>extention and if it is .exe it start the program instead of opening it in
>notepad.
>Why! Then an engine-author could write a simple dialogbased program to configure
>the engine and the engine would look very nativ for the gui.
>- When writing an installation program for my engine I was a little confused
>that the engineproperty was named ArenaBeta2 in Arena. Is this a bug or is it
>meant to be like this. Also I didn't understand what the third field in the
>engine-entry should be, set it to '0' seems ok though.
>- When a user resign the result (or resign) isn't sent to the engine, but it
>proceed with pondering.
>
>As a user:
>- Nice pieces, board look.
>- You can't resign when engine thinking but have to wait for it to play a move.
>- Missing tooltip when the mouse was over a tool button.
>
>I'm a busy right now but will test more this weekend.
>
>
>Odd Gunnar

Hi Odd,

could you add your very interesting message directly in our support forum. I
listed such messages in ASA and Martin can check important message very easy in
a list.

Thanks for your interest!
This answer is the part of Martin ...

Best
Frank



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