Author: Kim Roper Jensen
Date: 00:12:57 01/02/06
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On January 02, 2006 at 02:21:25, A. Zanchetta wrote: >>Ohh this almost makes me wanna buy a ppc just for connecting my novag sapphire >>to it :) > >One important thing for the Sapphire : it seems to need a Novag Super >Distributor Box. I haven't been able to connect it to the PPC or a PC without >this piece of hardware. > >I don't really understand why it is needed for the Sapphire and the Super VIP as >the older Super Expert does not need it. >Sapphire II and Star Diamond can also be connected directly to the PPC/PC. Yes that seems odd, mostly because I have a Novag Sapphire and no distributor box :( >>Is it possible to make/release an UCI adapter to the Novag computers ? > >yes. >It is funny that you ask for it : I have been working on the Novag interface for >few weeks (and thinking of it for a few months) but I never thought of an UCI >adapter until this morning during my jogging ! >Anyway, I have other things in my TODO list first, so do not count on that very >soon (in addition, I have almost no experience with UCI and I found it not very >well documented when I ported Fruit to Pocket PC) I remember that someone had a Novag connected to ICC via some Perl scripts - but having it running on a PC makes it a realistic thing to have a program to beat :) Also I enjoy the playing style of the Novag computers(isnt it a Kittinger program, some sort of Wchess thingie ?) >Best, >Alain
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