From: Eric Cheymol <shogi <at> FREE <dot> FR>
Date: 26 apr 2003
Subject: Re: Shogi Database Program for Mac OS X

Le samedi, 26 avr 2003, à 15:59 Europe/Paris, Albrecht Heeffer a écrit :

> Eric Cheymol wrote:
>> I am currently writing a shogi program.
>> The idea is to design a chessbase like app for shogi, to help players
>> using Apple machines to improve.
>
> Great! But all functions you mention (and some more) are already 
> supported
> by Matt Casters's Gnu Shogi Database project 
> (http://www.ibridge.be/shogi/).
> This java program is platform independent and should also run on Mac.
> It does not support playing over the internet but we have 
> shogidojo.com.

Yes, Matt's excellent program does many needed things.

But unfortunately, I had in the past so many difficulties to use Gsdb 
in Mac OS 9 and previous versions. And even when I could see something, 
it was definitely too slow. It was really unusable on my machine.

Now Mac OS X runs java 1.4.1 and with adsl this should be faster. Let's 
try.
Ok, I see the board, I can move pieces, but I still have "Error: 
Couldn't connect to game server !" at the beginning.
And I don't have the menu bar, I need to try all Fn keys in order to 
find the possibilities. So I can only use the java app to enter games 
and try to copy & paster the moves. Same as before.

(I already have discussed about this with Matt long ago).

I prefer a standalone application.

Cheers,

Eric