Subj : Re: more chess To : Klaus Meinhard From : Jasen Betts Date : Thu Dec 06 2001 09:56 pm Hi Klaus. 06-Dec-01 08:46:44, Klaus Meinhard wrote to Jasen.Betts@xspamp42.f531.n640.z3.f KM> From: "Klaus Meinhard" KM> Jasen, KM> I think I have now wrestled my new WinXP machine to the point were KM> I can savely breathe again KM> I have played around a bit with your chess batch, and I am KM> impressed: KM> You can take up a game where you left it. You can undo your draws KM> or restart, all with simple keystrokes or commands KM> Small niggles, easily fixed: I got a "missing parentheses" error KM> from line 39 (second line of the knight sprite). All sprites were KM> 1 column too small, leaving a %bg column after each square I'm sure you didn't mean 39... but that's how it reads here. It seems that something's been modifying posts in both directions... as I drew it it said: ` /`%=``| ` back-quote space space slash back-quote percent equal back-quote back-quote pipe space space back-quote KM> Future enhancements, if you seek a challenge: manually set up the KM> board (for chess problems) with figures of your choice. A KM> "restart" should then fall back to that position That'd be a good feature... probably fairly easy to add too. I've also been thinking of using allowing save files with different names. Results depends what the weather does this week... KM> If it's alright with you, I 'd like to put CHESS on my Batch of KM> the Month page (as a small christmas presence to all 4DOS fans :-) fine with me -=> Bye <=- --- * Origin: Predestination was doomed from the start. (3:640/531.42) .