Heh Don,
Paranoia attempts to keep hackers away hacking your software :)
On hacking: i found the fritz5 protection the most genius protection
ever.
You just had to modify 2 variables in an inifile to 'hack' it.
All hackers could do this, but the average user had no clue how to
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nt: Saturday, November 22, 2008 11:36 AM
> To: computer-go
> Subject: Re: [computer-go] On Don Dailey's first chess program
>
> Nearly all of my early games of go were against igowin. It's a great
> program that I recommend to beginners. I even got my wife into playing
> it.
Nearly all of my early games of go were against igowin. It's a great
program that I recommend to beginners. I even got my wife into playing
it. We've both looked into buying Many Faces. Igowin is an effective
marketing strategy, even if I'm too cheap :)
I've always wondered if we'll see igo
I see about 100 downloads of Igowin for every purchase of Many Faces, so it
is certainly true that free is far, far more popular than not-free.
David
>
> However, I would say to developers to not worry too much about a
> seemingly high rate of piracy. Most software pirates are those who would
>
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 10:44 -0800, Ross Werner wrote:
> Don Dailey wrote:
> > Rexchess doesn't run on todays computers because they are too fast.
> > One of the first things rexchess did was measure the speed of the
> > computer, because it had a function to simulate a specified ELO playing
> > str
Don Dailey wrote:
Rexchess doesn't run on todays computers because they are too fast.
One of the first things rexchess did was measure the speed of the
computer, because it had a function to simulate a specified ELO playing
strength. You could for example set it to play 1700 strength and it
wou
Don Dailey wrote:
The download site was a web site. The original source of my program
for free I don't remember, it might have been by software clubs where
it was common to trade such things. Also, well before the web was
popular there were still "bulletin boards", which you would connect to
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 10:36 -0800, terry mcintyre wrote:
> The term "web site" had no meaning prior to 1991. If we are talking about
> "decades ago", it might have been an ftp or gopher site, or a BBS.
I think rexchess came along in the late 1980's, early 1990's.I think
my first computer che
> From: Matthew Woodcraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Don Dailey wrote:
> > A few years later I was pointed to a site where I could download that
> > and just about any commercial chess program.We are talking several
> > decades ago, I didn't bookmark the site or use it myself and I have no
> > i
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 17:54 +0100, "Ingo Althöfer" wrote:
> Hello Don,
>
> thx for all your answers.
> I think, I found a website where old programs
> (from the 19_80s and early 90's) are listed:
>
> http://www.septober.de/chess/index.htm#
>
> There are also screenshots of RexChess
> http://www.
The term "web site" had no meaning prior to 1991. If we are talking about
"decades ago", it might have been an ftp or gopher site, or a BBS.
Terry McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-- Libertarians Do It With Consent!
> The download site was a web site. The original source of my program
> for fr
On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 15:13 +, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
> Don Dailey wrote:
> > A few years later I was pointed to a site where I could download that
> > and just about any commercial chess program.We are talking several
> > decades ago, I didn't bookmark the site or use it myself and I ha
Hello Don,
thx for all your answers.
I think, I found a website where old programs
(from the 19_80s and early 90's) are listed:
http://www.septober.de/chess/index.htm#
There are also screenshots of RexChess
http://www.septober.de/chess/pics/9102.gif
and "Colossus X" (by Martin Bryant)
http://ww
commercial software was freely available on BBSes when
i was a small child, and very, very many people had modems.
no internet access, but modems and local BBSes.
s.
On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Matthew Woodcraft
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don Dailey wrote:
>> A few years later I was point
Don Dailey wrote:
> A few years later I was pointed to a site where I could download that
> and just about any commercial chess program.We are talking several
> decades ago, I didn't bookmark the site or use it myself and I have no
> idea if it's still there.
It seems to me that only a very s
The program was RexChess and it goes back several decades. We only
sold a few thousands copies and it wasn't copy protected.
In Europe we sold something like 40 copies, probably mostly in Germany
but I can only guess.
In computer chess tournaments I constantly had people come up to me wi
Dear Don,
sorry to step in here, but I can't believe what you
write. So I would like to know some facts.
> My first chess program only sold a few copies in Europe.
What was the name of your program?
In which year was it published?
For what platform had it been?
> But I came to find out that t
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