Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 13:57:26 09/29/99
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On September 29, 1999 at 13:28:56, Ed Schröder wrote: >>Posted by Robert Hyatt on September 29, 1999 at 09:25:07: >> >>I have said this before, I will say it again. Auto232 is a piece of trash. >>It has always been a piece of trash. It still is a piece of trash. It will >>always be a piece of trash. Tony Hedlund and I spent many hours trying to >>figure out how Crafty would hang. Worked fine until it started probing the >>EGTBs rapidly, at which point the thing would hang, or the machine would crash >>every time. I gave up and any software that is so sensitive to how quickly or >>slowly a program produces a move (I have a delay function that is >>adjustable to >>help with this) or how quickly you access a disk drive, is, quite simply a >>piece >>of trash. >> >>Sorry for being so abrupt, but this is totally hopeless. The windows version >>seems to be more reasonable as it doesn't stuff an unknown piece of software >>into memory and hook on to the timer interrupt to check for moves by scanning >>video memory, etc. >> >>If you load the original auto232 software onto a windows system, you will >>notice that every time you look for it it will be gone. It will self-migrate >>to the trashbin. Exactly where it belongs. :) >> >>Bob > >ROTFL! > Nice for you to ROTFL... I wasn't when this was all going on, however. I was rolling on the floor going stark-raving mad... :) >Nice posting Bob but I believe too harsh. The problems you had IMO are >entirely related to the NONAME driver of auto232 which contains some >timing bugs. The specific drivers supported for Mchess, Hiarcs, Rebel, >Genius etc do not have this problem. > >Note that when Christophe implemented auto232 in his Chess Tiger using >the NONAME driver it communicates well with all programs except with >Rebel. The very same timing problems Crafty had and there is nothing >you can do about it. > >Ed
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