Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:47:44 05/26/99
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On May 26, 1999 at 17:17:42, Robert Pawlak wrote: >There's been an awful lot of teeth knashing concerning the new Rebel-CP. While >there is some justification for this, consider that there may be some very good >reasons for Ed's decision to go this route. > >Has it occured to anyone that Ed may still be developing his own windows GUI for >Rebel? Possibly (and this is only conjecture at this point), this development >may be occuring in parallel with that of rebel-CP. Perhaps the schedule slipped >on the rebel-developed version, and Ed was forced to take measures to placate >the people that were told there would be a windows version of Rebel this summer. > >In any case, this would be an honorable decision on his part. His customers get >an improved engine and windows interface, at the time that it was promised. Ed >gets to pay everyone's salary and continue development of a standalone Rebel for >windows. > >The CP interface is not all that bad. It does not stack up to Fritz, but few >programs do. It still has most of the features that people need, including >support for variations, and opening book tools. Asking for Rebel to produce a CB >compatible engine will not make it happen. Ed has stated many times in the past >(in no uncertain terms) that this would not be an option. > >Furthermore, the CP interface will at least have a decent 2-D board, which took >Chessmaster YEARS to develop. The lack of 3D and other unecessary features >should not really be an issue. Rebel's strong point has always been it's playing >style, and this should be unobscured by the UI. > >Really, I think people are going a bit overboard on this. For me, functionality is the key. I *hate* all three-d boards, except a "real" one. I wish the commercial programs would be as functional as Winboard. The biggest benefit of a Windows version of Rebel for me is that I don't have to switch my computer into DOS mode (which currently means that I can only run Rebel at home, since my work machines get pop-up messages at night, which cans my batch runs). I expect Rebel to run much better under NT than DOS anyway.
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