ktw@att.att.com (01/03/90)
Saw Cracraft's posting to gnu.chess about the new version. Do I get the tar file from you? According to the posting the full address is prep.ai.mit.edu:u/emacs/gnuchess-1.55.tar.Z Any help will be appreciated. Ken Wolman mhuxo!ktw
ktw@cbnewsm.ATT.COM (Dr. Miracle) (01/05/90)
I didn't intend for this note to be posted to the net. However,
this is a useful place to follow-up with the info that the files
arrived for 1.55. For those that might be interested, this is an
edited version of the note I set Stuart Cracraft (from whom the
sources came) about the modifications I needed to make:
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Much easier to compile than the previous version! I got it up and
running less that 15 minutes after editing out all the mailer lines!
I note the "types.h" line is now inserted before "times.h"--that was
one of the major bombs in the version I had.
The only modifications I had to make (and they were reasonably easy)
were definitions of W_OK in the nondsp.c and uxdsp.c files, and of
SIGINT and SIGOUT in nondsp.c. This was done by inserting "int W_OK;"
around line 48, right after the "int mycnt1,mycnt2;"; and, in nondps.c,
adding "int SIGINT;" and "int SIGOUT;" after the W_OK definition.
You've just saved me having to buy a Fidelity Display 2100!
--
Ken Wolman AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ
mhuxo!ktw (201) 564-2085
Comfort the afflicted
And afflict the comfortable.gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (01/16/90)
Well, my old Fidelity Chess Challenger 7 overpowered GNU in the 5-minute game (the Challenger 7 took about 35 minutes; GNU only took 5). I figure this might be a fair comparison since GNU is running a 32-bit processor while Challenger 7 is a Z-80. Fidelity's endgame was so weak it overplayed by 15+ moves when mate was immenent, acquiring material. I finished the game for it. Installation was trivial; congratulations on a fine piece of software. One problem I'm having is getting from the help page back to the game page. Maybe this is a bug, or maybe it's a user interface problem, but normally I expect to see the help, and then expect a single keypress to return me to the game. I haven't yet figured out how to get back to the game.
dl2n+@andrew.cmu.edu (Daniel Edward Lovinger) (01/16/90)
> One problem I'm having is getting from the help page back to the game > page. Maybe this is a bug, or maybe it's a user interface problem, > but normally I expect to see the help, and then expect a single > keypress to return me to the game. Well, the bug is that the line saying 'Hit <esc> to return' is gone is version 1.55. It still works like 1.53 though. dan
mathew@jane.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Mathew Yeates) (01/16/90)
In article <63000001@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: > >Well, my old Fidelity Chess Challenger 7 overpowered GNU in the >5-minute game (the Challenger 7 took about 35 minutes; GNU only took >5). I figure this might be a fair comparison since GNU is running a >32-bit processor while Challenger 7 is a Z-80. > >Fidelity's endgame was so weak it overplayed by 15+ moves when mate >was immenent, acquiring material. I finished the game for it. > >Installation was trivial; congratulations on a fine piece of software. > >One problem I'm having is getting from the help page back to the game >page. Maybe this is a bug, or maybe it's a user interface problem, >but normally I expect to see the help, and then expect a single >keypress to return me to the game. > >I haven't yet figured out how to get back to the game. hit the escape key.