Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Question about auto232

Author: Olivier Deville

Date: 21:22:12 07/13/04

Go up one level in this thread


On July 13, 2004 at 19:26:45, José Carlos wrote:

>On July 13, 2004 at 18:47:19, James T. Walker wrote:
>
>>On July 13, 2004 at 12:04:08, José Carlos wrote:
>>
>>>  Sorry if this question has been answered before.
>>>  I have a dual athlon. I run test matches there with ponder on under Arena. I
>>>would like to match winboard and UCI engines under arena vs old programs that
>>>support auto232 (I think) like Genius 6.5, CSTal and Fritz 6. Is there an easy
>>>way to do this in the dual? Do I need some extra software to do that?
>>>
>>>  Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>  José C.
>>
>>Hello Jose,
>>I don't have a dual but I think you need only a "null modem cable" to connect
>>serial port 1 to serial port 2.  Then you can run one program on cpu-1 with
>>serial port 1 and connected to cpu-2 through serial port 2.  Both programs can
>>run inside arena.  The problem most people have is finding a "serial modem
>>cable".  Note:  This is not an ordinary serial cable since it has some pins
>>crossed.
>>Jim
>
>  Thanks for the answer. Now that you say, yes I recall the null modem cable
>trick. Is there any way to do without it, doing the connection vitually in
>memory? And another question: I have two computers connected with a small hub at
>home. Can I use the LAN connection to automate matches between both computers or
>do I still need a serial cable?
>
>  José C.

I can run here matches between Chess System Tal or Genius 6.5 vs. other engines
running on Arena or Fritz, using a nullmodem cable. The problem with the new
computers is that you may have only 1 serial port.

You can do it without a nullmodem cable if using Arena or Fritz, but I'm not
sure at all if old CSTal and Genius can do that.

Olivier



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.