re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 8:52 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Bill Morris
(4 messages posted)
Marc, actually, what I've got is a whole DOS-based GUI that is not a Windoze clone
but an LCARS clone, called LCARS 24B. It includes a bundled chess program, but that
program can run independently under DOS or Windoze. Its screen display is set in
one of the LCARS screen types. The chess engine I used is Faile, with the original
author's permission. He had it set up to work with WinBoard, and I plugged his code
into my LCARS API. Basically, I could probably do the same with Ruffin, but I only
need one chess program. The one nice innovation I added that I would like to see
others consider is a halo behind the computer's piece that has just moved and on
the square where that piece was previously--in case you weren't watching when the
computer moved. Also, the program is not too big, and the user can easily add a
different book. I have six games bundled with the package. The whole thing is an
alternative to the whole Mac/Smalltalk/Win paradigm, with no scroll bars, icons,
etc. It looks like the computers on Star Trek Voyager and is programmed with DJGPP.
My original question was about the problem with XP's ACPI sleep mode. I'm wondering
if someone has or could put together a nonverbose (not producing any screen display)
Win32 program that temporarily turns that off and that my main program could spawn
at startup and again at shutdown to turn it off. Users could do it from the Control
Panel, I guess, but since this is a freeware thing, some people might have trouble
doing that or wouldn't (and perhaps shouldn't have to) bother.
Saturday, October 18, 2003 at 12:02 am, marc margolies wrote:
>thanks, bill that's quite kind of you. but i say no, at least for now.
>In fact I recieved 4!!!! new chess programs in the past two weeks, so my plate is
>kind of full. One of them is the excellent non-commercial program called ruffian1.05--
>winboard engine. my biggest problem chesswise at the moment is recompiling crafty19.4
>source under gcc.optimizing for my chipset.
>Incidently rebel12(the problematic example of my previous post) is now made as a
>commercial windows compatible version which runs under winXP; consequently that
means
>all the previous dos versions are available as a free download-- if collect analytical
>chess engines, you ought snap up the old rebel for free while it is still available.
>btw, bill,what is your program callled?
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