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Subject: Re: La Petite 1.0 (download)

Author: James Robertson

Date: 10:26:58 10/24/99

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On October 24, 1999 at 10:08:45, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 24, 1999 at 05:59:40, Frank Schneider wrote:
>
>>
>>I haven't tried the 'strings lapetite.exe', but I believe you that there are
>>lots of strings that were just translated. I agree that is strong evidence
>>that lapetite's I/O is based on Crafty. But is there any evidence that the
>>engine is still a crafty clone?
>>
>>Copying an engine is, from my point of view, much worse than reusing the
>>I/O stuff and structure of the userinterface.
>>
>
>Run the second test I mentioned:  start "La Petite" under a debugger, and
>look for the area where all the 64 bit masks are in memory.  You will find
>patterns like 80000000 00000000, 40000000 00000000, 20000000 00000000, etc.
>then look for the rotated masks which are like the above, but in a different
>order (64 bits, 1 bit set).  Then compare to crafty.exe.  Look at data.c to
>find the pre-initialized scoring array patterns.  See if you can find 'em in
>La Petite.  :)
>
>etc.

How would I do such a thing with MSVC++ 5.0?

James



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