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- From: wewila@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au (Alan Wilkie)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.sources.games
- Subject: Re: Looking for a chess game.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.152621.27@iwsd01.itwol.bhp.com.au>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 15:26:21 +1000
- References: <1992Dec21.105423.1@madre.dasd.honeywell.com>
- Organization: BHP Information Technology
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- In article <1992Dec21.105423.1@madre.dasd.honeywell.com>, tas@madre.dasd.honeywell.com (Todd A Sorensen) writes:
- > Does anyone know of a good chess game for Xwindows machines (I have a
- > VAXstation 4000 model 60)?
-
- We have managed to get GNU chess (version 3 I think) running on a VAXstation
- 4000/60. The chess program itself has no X interface, but there is a program
- called Xboard which goes along with it that provides one.
-
- There was a fair bit of work involved in getting Xboard to work under VMS,
- mainly due to the use of the Athena widget set and UNIX fork/pipes. I have
- "VMSed" the pipes using mailboxes and have removed the Athena widgets in
- favour of OSF/Motif. I never actually finished the port since it got to a
- workable state and people got bored with the game, so the Motif part is not
- a complete implementation of the command set (the rest could be added though).
-
- One other problem : at the time, we didn't have YACC on VMS and the source
- code distribution for GNU chess uses it for saving/retrieving games, so we
- just commented that part out and ignored saved games.
-
- Of course, I am willing to share the VMS modified source code (and it might
- be worthwhile finishing it off...).
-
- P.S. E-mail to here is a bit dodgy - should work
- to wewila@vulcan.resmel.bhp.com.au but probably won't to the
- address below.
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