Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 20:49:20 03/25/99
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On March 25, 1999 at 23:01:48, Ed Schröder wrote: >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 I can write some Win32-specific code - I know structure of the executables very well (before moving to MS I wrote Win32 linker). Of course, that can be broken, too, but at least some assembly knowledge is required. Bob, please write to me if you are interested. Eugene >>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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