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Subject: Re: Anyone can send me Voyager?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:25:05 09/01/99

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On September 01, 1999 at 12:15:32, James Robertson wrote:

>On September 01, 1999 at 04:13:35, Frank Schneider wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 1999 at 20:45:54, Pete Galati wrote:
>>
>>>On August 31, 1999 at 17:45:50, Côme wrote:
>>>
>>>>Anyone can send me Voyager please?
>>>>
>>>>I have seen a lot of Voyager's Game and i dream to have Voyager.
>>>>Where can i have Voyager?
>>>>
>>>>Best regards
>>>>
>>>>Alex Come
>>>
>>>You can download Crafty at: ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ Voyager is said to
>>>be Crafty with some modifications.
>>As far as I know Voyager started as a Crafty-clone, but there are more than
>>just 'some' modifications. In fact some time ago the author planned to rewrite
>>all code remaining from crafty - I'm not sure if this has already been done.
>
>Based on what was originally Crafty wouldn't that entail writing a whole new
>program?
>
>James
>


pretty much.  And I can tell you that as of about 6 months ago, it was not a
'modified version' by any stretch of that description.  It seemed to be using
R=3 all the time for null-move, where I use R=3/R=2 dynamically.  It seemed to
have a few eval terms changed... but all the eval _patterns_ were identical, as
were all the bitmap masks, the bitmap update stuff, the procedure names, etc...

This guy was a snake-oil salesman...  not often that a completely _unknown_
person bursts upon the scene and starts beating everyone in sight overnight...

>>
>>Frank
>>
>>
>>>
>>>Pete



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