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- From: royce@splunge.uucp (Royce Howland)
- Subject: Re: Mike Ferris' Risk.app
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.161439.1593@splunge.uucp>
- Organization: Ashley, Howland & Wood
- References: <1993Jan3.024648.221@splunge.uucp> <1993Jan3.060714.20777@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 16:14:39 GMT
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- fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:
-
- >> Anybody else out there have Mike Ferris' excellent Risk.app and spend
- >> as much time with it as I do? :~) I'd be interested in an exchange
- >> of computer players with anybody who's written them.
-
- >I downloaded the pre-release version 0.95, and was waiting for 1.0 to come
- >out. I looked again, and all I could find was 0.95 on sonata. This
- >version is very slow (compared to the mac version that ran on my macintosh
- >SE which is at least 25 times slower than my NeXTStation Turbo...) It
- >also had only 1 computer player... (it had 2, but the other one just sat
- >there and never moved) And this guy is very easy to beat.
-
- >I think the interface is really nice, and look forward to its completion.
-
- I, too, was waiting for version 1.0, which Mike said to me in email once
- had been sent to the maintainer of sonata for posting there. It didn't
- appear before I lost my ftp access. :~(
-
- Anyway, agreed that the computer players shipped with 0.95 are not a
- challenge. They're not intended to be. Diagnostic is only there to be a
- predictable foil to your own players while you're developing and testing
- them, while Chaotic is intended to serve as a sample of a sort of full-
- fledged player and show you how to use various features of the API.
-
- I've developed a few players in the last few weeks, most of which were no
- good. :~) But my latest seems to be not bad. I can still beat it pretty
- regularly, but every now and then it kicks my butt good. I'd be happy to
- NeXTmail it to you, if you're interested.
- --
- Royce Howland, DKW Systems Corp. | "And since OS/2 2.0 is a 32-bit
- Everything is IMHO | operating system, programs are easier
- royce@splunge.uucp (NeXTMail OK) | to write and run faster, too."
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