Author: Harald Faber
Date: 09:11:33 08/26/99
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On August 26, 1999 at 10:37:09, Andrew Dados wrote: >>> Duh... here we go again... >>>I will repeat myself: *noone talked about modifying CM file* (in fact it would >>>be impossible probably). We were discussing writing external adapter for King >>>engine... >> >>For The King is implemented in the CMXX.EXE you need to hack this .EXE file and >>can't extract an engine file like .dll or .eng >> >>Consider every change in the program code is called hacking, at least if you are >>not allowed to do so. > > FYI: exe, dll and eng are all the same file format... (try renaming *.eng to >exe and running it...). While *.eng are in fact dlls and can't be run as >standalone programs ( only difference between dll and exe ), you can not 'hack' >exe file to behave like dll or vice versa. All you can do is to write external >program acting as adapter - in analogous way as winboard can 'connect' 2 >external engine exe files. Would you claim that Tim Mann hacks all engines to >work with winboard? >-Andrew- You know it is vice versa. ;-) Seriously, of course you can call each chess program (GUI +) engine. Some system seperate it clearly with the engine-concept like Fritz, Winboard and MCS and for legality this is handled much clearer. Some don't. Take Rebel and CM. You certainly hurt copyright laws when extracting the engine code from the exe. Isn't it obvious?
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