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Subject: Re: A nice game by Kiwi

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 02:56:27 10/05/04

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On October 05, 2004 at 04:15:40, Stan Arts wrote:

>Ahh you've got a nice website, with lots of interesting interests!

Thanks Stan! Now that I have to look after my little son it's become difficult
to find time for the site and most other hobbies, though I still manage to add
something every couple weeks or so.

>Tried to run Kiwi this morning, but after it starts it doesn't receave winboard
>commands and also in console mode I can't type anything in it. :( The logfile
>stays empty too. Any idea what it could be? (old computer with win98, maybe
>because of memoryswapping Kiwi thinks it has too little on startup or so?)

The version linked from the programming page doesn't work for Win98 and I forgot
to update the link. Version 0.1c should work with Win98 and at least 64Mb of
RAM:

http://www.ascotti.org/programming/chess/chess.htm

>I'll try some of your programs and games during the week. I already took a look
>at online Yawn, and it seems a nice and probably addictive game, once I figure
>out all the buttons and how it works. :)

Yeah, sort of poker with dice... *very* addictive, at least for a while... I
think I have played hundreds of games over the years! You'll probably find
several other versions around with names like Yahtzee, Yacht and so on... maybe
those explain the rules better, I remember I struggled a bit with that piece of
English!

>Do you perform with your juggling and magic interests?

I don't perform prefessionally, just for friends and family sometimes. I kinda
like the idea of setting a goal and study and practice to reach it, and both
fields provide very interesting and never-ending challenges. Besides,
conventions are a great place to meet people, make friends and often drink more
than your daily share of beer! :-)



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