From: Jens Mueller-Koppe GESCHICHTE UNI-BREMEN DE> Date: 12 sep 1996 Subject: Re: Kiwami Shogi Hello Colin Paul! I hope you would not blame me, if I send you the KIWAME programm with this mail. I got it from some friends, and I think it would be no problem for a japanese company if some of the very few european shogi players help each other a little bit. Together with this here is a copy of the menu description Hans Geuns wrote for shogi-l sertveral months ago. Hope you`ll enjoy it. Best greetings Jens Mueller-Koppe Kiwame II (almost but not quite complete) "cheat sheet": After starting Kiwame you get the --------- Main menu --------- 1 new game 2 file 3 replay game 4 options 5 solve tsume (<= 19 zetten) 6 more Playing with plain DOS, you don't see nothin' (except some katakana sometimes), but your selections will be highlighted as black blocks.) -Move around in menu with mouse or with cursor keys. -Select: mouse left button click or Enter. -Back to previous menu: mouse right button click or Esc (except in submenu 4). (You know you're back in the main menu when pressing Esc no longer makes the highlighted black block flimmer.) (Don't use Ctrl or Alt (?) unless you love the unexpected or know what you're doing ! I fiddled around a bit with pressing left-Ctrl + some random keys -- forgot which -- and Kiwame jumped to DOS and DOS threw an error message at me and I just had to reset my machine and was very relieved nothing really bad had happened...) 1. Submenu: new game -------------------- 1.1 begin play 1.2 who gets sente (black) 1.3 who gets gote (white) 1.4 start position 1.5 options/setup 1.6 study 1.2/1.3 -> 1.21 you (play sente / gote) (default = you sente, Kiwame gote) 1.22 kiwame normal [katakana] 1.23 kiwame hyper [katakana] 1.24 kiwame time-system (haven't tried this out, so I don't know what this means exactly) 1.22 -> 1.221 level 0 [katakana] 1.222 level 1 1.223 level 3 1.224 level 4 1.225 level 5 1.23 -> 1.231 hyper 0 [katakana] 1.232 hyper 1 1.233 hyper 2 1.234 hyper 3 1.4 back to start position (of a normal game) 1.5 -> 1.51 show thoughts on/off (defaults to ON, but better left OFF) 1.52 normal/fast thinking 1.6 -> 1.61 to 1.64 (not yet tried out) 2. Submenu: file ---------------- 2.1 load 2.2 save 2.1/2.2 -> gives a DOS-like prompt where you can choose (or type) a filename and save your game or restore a saved game 3. Submenu: replay game ----------------------- 3.1 go back to beginning (first move) 3.2 go to end of game (last move) 3.3 go one move ahead 3.4 go back one move 3.5 study game(s) 4. Submenu: options/setup ------------------------- 4.1 equal game 4.2 2 piece handicap (is the only handicap available) 4.3 tsume input (1 King) 4.4 tsume input (2 Kings) 4.5 cancel 4.6 end setup (OK) (You can only get out of this submenu by selecting 4.5 or 4.6 !) 6. Submenu: more ---------------- 6.1 joseki editor (+one extra submenu underneath, not yet lookes at) 6.2 switch pieceset 6.3 QUIT Hope this was any help. Hans Geuns geuns euronet nl