From: "shogi.de" <shogi-l <at> SHOGI <dot> DE>
Date: 14 jul 2003
Subject: Re: WG: MacShogi is out

Hi Eric,

all I need this evening is a MAC OS emulator for WIN XP :-)

regards
Marc


> > -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: The Shogi Discussion List
> > [mailto:SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL]Im Auftrag von Eric Cheymol
> > Gesendet: Montag, 14. Juli 2003 17:40
> > An: SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL
> > Betreff: MacShogi is out
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > Second good news for shogi today : MacShogi is out !
> >
> > MacShogi is a Shogi Database program for Mac OS X. The aim of MacShogi
> > is to make a fully featured shogi database application such as the
> > wellknown ChessBase, but for the Macintosh environment.
> >
> > The program can already help you to :
> >
> > - Enter new games and save them in the psn format
> > - Load and replay games
> > - Sort loaded games in any order (sente's name, gote's name, grades,
> > event)
> > - All rules are implemented and fully tested, illegal moves are not
> > possible
> > - make diagrams, you only need to copy and paste them in your
> > magazine,
> > book or article
> >    -- using the tendo shogi font or tendo+text, the latter
> > one is useful
> > to make the number of pieces
> >       correctly printed
> >    -- using text only for sending an email
> >
> > The playing over internet has been deactivated, it works fine but it
> > need some time to make it more friendly.
> >
> > I made tests with many games (up to 30000, it should be enough for
> > storing all your games of your life :-). The program can handle many
> > more games, the limit is only the RAM amount. And I have ideas for
> > improving the memory usage. With 30000, I keep the details of
> > more than
> > 3 million moves, to be able to switch from on move to the other
> > immediately.
> >
> > MacShogi runs on Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or more. I have not tested it
> > on 10.1 or previous. But I use a feature introduced in Jaguar for the
> > sorting feature. It is available here :
> >
> > http://echeymol.free.fr/macshogi/MacShogi.dmg
> >
> > The user manual is not written yet. I will do it shortly.
> > If you already have downloaded MacShogi, you can update it now.
> >
> > MacShogi can read Matt Casters' Java Shogi Database games psn files
> > (the following archives contain the same psn files) :
> >
> > http://echeymol.free.fr/matt/gsdb.20030714.psn.zip
> > http://echeymol.free.fr/matt/gsdb.20030714.psn.tar.gz
> >
> > Except Tsume.psn (which has a specific format), MacShogi can read :
> >
> > Amateur.psn  1004 games
> > Jozeki.psn     85 games
> > Matt.psn        2 games
> > Pros.psn     1130 games
> >
> > If you merge those files, you can get 2221 games in one
> > place, sort and
> > replay them ...
> > The library list feature has helped me a lot for cleaning those games.
> >
> > MacShogi reads comments stored in the files but loses them if you save
> > the library file. MacShogi can handle variations as well. But the user
> > side is not implemented yet for those two features.
> >
> > If you have some comments, ideas for improvements ... send an email to
> > me. The current todo list will already give work to me for many months
> > :-))
> >
> > Best Shogi wishes,
> >
> > Eric
> >
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> >