From: Matt Casters <matt <at> INNET <dot> BE>
Date: 10 feb 1998
Subject: GSDB 2.7 beta

Hello Shogi friends,

It's been a while since you heard any news from the Shogi Database.
Well, some radical changes were needed and things could not get
released after they were all implemented.  A few :

        Multiple clients/boards
        Unlimited number of moves and variations.
        A Graphical game-tree window
        Better (hopefully) colors
        Instant switch between color and black&white screens.
        Reduced memory usage
        Better overview with the use of menus
        ...

The whole GSDB client looks less like an applet and more
like a real application, and it should.

Please help me iron out the last details as my total amount of
available time is limited to 25 hours a day.  Check out :

        http://www.netpoint.be/~matt/2.7/

for the GSDB client version 2.7 beta. (total size is about 180k)

In a week or two you can then expect the final version.

Enjoy,

Matt Casters
matt <at> innet <dot> be

P.S. because of the way things are (re-)written now, you can
expect a complete graphical java application and a native
Windows95/NT executable in the near future.

P.P.S. 8847 lines of source code are available at
        http://www.netpoint.be/~matt/2.7/java/client/

 4762 Feb  7 00:58 Client.java
 2520 Feb  7 16:30 Comment.java
 6358 Feb  9 22:15 Const.java
12649 Feb  7 16:39 Data.java
29645 Feb  9 20:56 Decode.java
12358 Feb 10 00:28 Game.java
 4979 Feb  7 16:11 GameSelect.java
43146 Feb  9 20:56 Gen.java
95774 Feb 10 00:31 Gsdb.java
 4016 Feb  7 19:31 Help.java
 2782 Feb  8 12:14 MainGsdb.java
 5092 Feb  5 23:00 Move.java
 3485 Feb  9 22:33 MyDialog.java
 6167 Feb  7 18:59 Search.java
 3186 Feb  5 23:00 StreamAnalyser.java
 7556 Feb  7 15:57 StreamListener.java
 7120 Feb  9 23:16 varCanvas.java
 2870 Feb  9 23:11 varChoice.java
 7824 Feb  9 23:23 varFrame.java