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- Velena Engine Source Code V1.00 (written by Giuliano Bertoletti)
- Copyright (C) 1996-97 Giuliano Bertoletti & GBE 32241 Software PR
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- Released 27/07/1997
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- This is a Connect 4 AI core engine. Please download Velena for the whole
- documentation.
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- Velena can be found at the following adresses via Internet:
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- http://www.ce.unipr.it/~gbe/velena.html (official homepage)
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- ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/ai/velenaXX.zip
- where XX is the current version of Velena (now is 18).
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- Acknoledgements
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- Velena Engine Source Code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the following conditions:
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- 1 - If you make a derived work, the full source code must be distributed
- and placed in public domain.
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- 2 - You must not charge a fee for this software nor for any derived work
- in which this software is included.
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- 3 - You must not delete the copyright notices in the source code
- (but of course you can make your own layout for graphics and copyright notices on
- the screen, provided it's clearly expressed that you used the Velena Engine Source
- Code and that's a derived work).
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- Disclaimer
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- This software is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- without any warranty; including but not limited to implied warranties
- of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose with respect to
- the software and accompanying written materials.
- The author takes no responsibility for use or misuse of this software.
- Although every effort has been made to produce a solid and efficient product
- the author cannot assure that the operation of the software will be
- uninterrupted and error free. The user takes every risk.
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- Actually the source code has been tested under Watcom C/C++ V10.0 and
- Linux gcc compiler. The default makefile is for linux. If you want to
- compile the code under watcom use makefile.wcc
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- Greetings
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- During Velena development I have been helped by many persons:
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- This program is based on the knowledged approach of L.Victor Allis which
- designed and implemented a sophisticated AI engine in a program called
- Victor. Velena is basically the same, except that even newer concepts and
- techniques were introduced in order to reduce the problem complexity (of
- solving the game) to a more tractable factor of magnitude. Moreover Velena
- is available to anyone, while Victor (currently) is not. I thank L.Victor
- Allis for his support while I developed Velena and for the theory he made
- for solving Connect Four. Without him this program wouldn't have come to light.
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- I also thank Filippo Ghilardi who helped me to build the opening book data base
- which took several days of work on his Pentium 133 computer, and Davide Mazza
- who created the Velena intro logo (MSDOS version).
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- The author:
- Giuliano Bertoletti
- E-mail gbe@ce.unipr.it
- gbe@netsis.it
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