Author: Ed Schröder
Date: 20:01:48 03/25/99
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On March 25, 1999 at 22:37:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On March 25, 1999 at 10:02:37, Eugene Nalimov wrote: > >>On March 25, 1999 at 08:05:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: >> >>>On March 25, 1999 at 07:08:57, Robert Ericsson wrote: >>> >>>>I have just read at Gambit-SOFT News that Crafty will not be for free >>>>download anymore. >>>> >>>>I can understand Dr. Hyatt's decision and all I can say is a BIG thank you >>>>to Bob for all previous free downloads of Crafty!! >>>> >>>>I enjoy Crafty very much. I hope we will hear from you here at CCC though. >>>>Good luck with your future programming! >>>> >>>>Yours sincerely, >>>>Robert Ericsson >>> >>> >>>Crafty will continue to be available. Just not via anonymous ftp, so that I >>>can maintain some sort of control over it. I don't know how it will be done >>>just yet, but details will be posted here soon. >> >>Maybe you can distribute executables by anonymous FTP. My guess >>is that at least 80% of Crafty users will be happy with it. >> >>Eugene > >That doesn't solve the 'drafty' problem.. because it is not terribly hard to >use a hex editor to find the various strings in crafty and change them to some >sort of profanity. You can add a checksum to the Crafty executable. I have done this myself in every Rebel release. If one byte is changed then it is exit program. It's also a good protection against a virus. Ed Schroder >Tablebases and the PGN game collections are 'up' still. And crafty will be >again once I find a way to exert some control over it. IE the license agreement >will likely change, although the cost will _always_ be what it is today. :)
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