From: Stephen J Lamb <SJL <at> DEV <dot> ALS <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 22 may 1997
Subject: Re: SHOGI (sorry)

> >[snipped]why hasn't anyone developed
> >a client that everyone, including us 3.x cave dwellers, can download for
> >use on a telnet server, like Chess and Shiangqi players have done?  I ask
> >
> >Until then, I guess we'll have to wait until the rest of the world
> >catches up with WIN95.
>
> I would just like to say that there is a browser that has a Java
> Virtual Machine under Windows 3.1.  It's called the Microsoft Internet
> Explorer version 3.02a.


Also Netscape Navigator 3.01 for Win3.x supports Java.  This may
be more compatible with the JavaShogi site.  (The JavaShogi usage
notes say that the Win3.x version of Netscape Navigator won't work
but it's unclear whether or not they're referring just to version 2.x)
Go to http://home.netscape.com to download it and try it out.


By the way, although I sympathize with your feelings regarding the
advantages of something like a telnet site to play shogi (available to
all) rather than a java site (available to some currently), I can't
help feeling that the massive growth and advantages of the WWW
combined with Java will more or less kill off technologies such as
telnet in the not so distant future.  IMNHO of course.


Best wishes,
  Steve.