re: DOS programs work under Windows XP.
Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:12 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by marc margolies
(8 messages posted)
your work sounds interesting to me. there is a moderated chess programmer's bulletin
board called talkchess.com
have you heard of it? you might find some like-minded friends there!
I think also that alot of early adopters of WinXP long-ago disabled the go-to-sleep
options on their systems because of the known bug where the machine would hibernate
during long downloads ( and download will fail). I do not recall MS announcing a
fix for this, but I never honestly bothered to look for it.
On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 8:52 am, Bill Morris wrote:
>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.
>
>
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> 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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