Author: Anthony Cozzie
Date: 18:54:22 04/24/04
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On April 24, 2004 at 20:51:56, Mike Byrne wrote: >I just finished a special update to Crafty 19.12 SE that allows "move >annoucement" under Winboard. (For the uninitiated, 'move announcement" is the >computer "speaking" its moves to you as you the computer plays its moves. > >This feature when combined with Odd Gunnar Malin's new dgt2wb.exe adapter allows >a Crafty user to play Crafty through the DGT board to the Winbaord GUI with move >annoucement. Although it sounds trivial, the move annoucement is a great >feature in this setup as the user do not have to look at the screen at all >during his play - you just look at the real 3D DGT chess board as if you were >playing in a tournament. Also, this allows the user to set the winboard gui to >a very samll size on the desktop so the user can surf the net with most of his >desktop space as he plays the computer with the audio move annoucement when the >computer plays its move. > >You will need these downloads > >http://home.online.no/~malin/sjakk/download/Dgt2Wb.zip > >ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/common/winspeak.zip > >plus the .wav files (the move annoucement files)from either Arena or the DGT >websites. > >a DGT board and my yet-to-released Crafty 19.12 SE update (just email me with >the word "Crafty/DGT" for the lastest. Note there is no other change from the >earlier release, so unless you want to test the DGT board with Crafty and move >annoucnement, there is no sense in getting this. Also, I suggest this is for >experienced Winboard && Crafty && DGT board users at the moment as I may not >have the time to a lot of hand holding with this. > >Best, > >Michael Perhaps you should get "Odd Gunnar" (is that really his name?) to add the speaking commands to his adapter. That seems like a better place for them anyway. anthony
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