Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 18:42:30 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 17:18:32, Daniel Clausen wrote:
>Hi
>
>On January 02, 2000 at 19:34:33, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>The only problem, and that is the reason why Rebel is not tested by the SSDF
>>anymore, is that the Auto232 DOS driver hurts Rebel playing strength. It
>>overwrites random chunks of memory, which often leads to crashes or to unnoticed
>>weakening of the play.
>
>and:
>
>>I remember that because of this, Ed has asked the SSDF guys to test Rebel
>>manually, and not thru Auto232. So they could test Rebel, but nowadays it is too
>>much work and that's why it won't be on the next lists.
>
>Wouldn't it be much simpler to write an Auto232 which is actually bugfree?
>I don't know this product but it must be rather trivial to send moves back- and
>forward between two chess engines... I If remember right, Bob also has problems
>with Auto232 and Crafty, although his problem might be of a different nature.
>
>Kind regards,
> -sargon
Writting an Auto232 driver is far from obvious. I don't think everything is
documented, and when it is documented there are still timing problems and so on.
It took me a long time to have the interface between Tiger and the Auto232
driver working, so I'm sure the driver itself is a nightmare.
And anyway Rebel will have is own Auto232 driver when it will be a Windows
program. The Rebel-Tiger has already this driver built-in, and it works very
well.
Christophe
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