From: Tie Zeng <zeng <at> APPLE <dot> COM>
Date: 5 jan 1994
Subject: Re: MacShogi?

>Whatever happened to the Mac version of shogi someone was working on a
>couple of months ago? I never heard any more about it...
>

I was working on  the program. It turns out the project
takes much much more work than I expected. It is hard to even
try to load the openbook, without knowing Japanese myself.

a while ago, After a friend sent me a copy of Mac GNU Shogi he got from Japan,
I told myself there is no need to spend so much time to work on a similar
program.

But after the encouragement from the friend, I decide to finish the program
anyway.
But I don't have the time right now. So it will be a while before the program
is done.  I will notify the list at that time.

The current program can let people play Shogi over a network, generate a move
list from the game, or genearate a game record from a move list. But
the engin is not there yet, so people can not play against computer.

Sorry for not replying e-mails since last December. It has been an extreme
busy month
for me.


Tie Zeng