Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:22:04 12/10/99
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On December 10, 1999 at 19:51:52, paul bedrey wrote: >As an avid and sometimes frustrated computer chess addict I've often wondered >what it would be like to play various commercial programs against each other >in a neutral chess interface. I have racked my brain to try to balance the >rights of the commercial programers(just financial rewards) with that of the >needs of consumers(enjoyment of computer chess battles). I propose the following >compromise. Old versions of a program be converted to the Winboard interface for >a price. I would gladly pay $ 15-20 for slightly outdated version of commercial >program X. This way a programer could get a few more miles out of an older >version and hopefully not canabilize the most advanced version of their program >and the consumer still have the enjoyment of playing both commercial and >shareware against one another in a neutral environment. Maybe >this might avoid the loss of an independent program like Mchess. I like Winboard, but I fail to understand the desire to throw out perfectly good interfaces and make the old programs run in Winboard. Besides having seen Winboard more than enough times, some (most) of these older programs had the ability to be run in the good old 16 bit world. Why should everything (paticularly the antique programs) need Windows 95 or later to run? Pete
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