From: J Andrew Lipscomb <ewwa <at> CHATTANOOGA <dot> NET>
Date: 26 apr 2003
Subject: Re: Shogi Database Program for Mac OS X

The Macintosh's Cocoa development environment can be used with Java 
programs. Sounds like what is needed therefore is to create a good Mac 
interface to GSDB.

Le Samedi, 26 avr 2003, à 10:38 America/Montreal, Eric Cheymol a écrit :

> 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
>