jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz) (01/13/86)
I am writing an 'Electronic Go Board' for the Amiga, which I hope to be able to use as a front end for Joseki tutors, showing games as movies, recording and commenting on games, with digressions, and as a front end for go-by-mail/network and programs like Nemesis. If anyone is messing around in this arena or would be interested in the result, drop me a line. The program will be strongly amiga specific (I think I can test for captured groups with the Blitter), so y'all run out and get one, y'hear? (Part of the purpose of this program is to get Burt, 3-dan, to buy an Amiga.) Source will be distributed, someway, someday. I don't have a good pointer to Bruce Wilcox, but you can try the recent SIGART newsletter or American Go Journal. On this subject, I wonder if anyone embraces a standard for storage or communication of a Go game, initial state of a game, digressions, and so on. I will use some variant of the Amiga/EA IFF format if I don't hear anything. I am having trouble mailing through ARPA gateways, so include USnail or phone if you want a response. {hplabs,decwrl}!pyramid!amiga!jimm (an Intuitive guy)