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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #50 on: July 18, 2006, 05:05 PM »
hmm.. im not sure that's it - i login as administrator so that shouldnt be any problem i dont think..
but im willing to test any new version..

btw: smirf
the new free VirtualPC would be ideal environment for testing such stuff.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #51 on: July 18, 2006, 09:58 PM »
Now I hope to have made the installation routine a little bit more intelligent. Please report your experiences with the updated installation routine and GUI. Thank you!

Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #52 on: July 18, 2006, 10:01 PM »
Quote from: mouser on July 18, 2006, 05:05 PM
... the new free VirtualPC would be ideal environment for testing such stuff.

You probably are right ;-) , the problem is, I hav'nt that tool.

Regards, Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #53 on: July 18, 2006, 10:14 PM »
virtualpc is now free:
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=4330.0

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #54 on: July 19, 2006, 07:17 PM »
I am still waiting for (+) or (-) reactions after exploring the new SMIRF installation package. It really would be fine to hear anything about successes or failures ... thank you !

Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #55 on: July 20, 2006, 07:51 AM »
hi reinhard i had similar trouble with the old installer got the new one and no problems with the new installation. :Thmbsup:love the program by the way.Have you thought about drag and move for the moves(that isnt a critisism) the curent interface is great.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #56 on: July 20, 2006, 04:52 PM »
Hi Martyjn, thank you for your message! The SMIRF GUI is my first working chess GUI. Thus I am gathering a lot of experiences. Drag and drop will be in my next approach for this. Actually I am not sure to continue development with Borland Studio, because C++ yet is only supported half compared to Delphi. Nevertheless there will be some smaller improvements of the current SMIRF GUI and engine.

Regards, Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #57 on: August 13, 2006, 07:46 PM »
SMIRF's chess engine has been updated to BC-163f to finally participate in this contest.

Regards, Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #58 on: September 07, 2006, 06:59 PM »
There of course is again a new version of the SMIRF engine BC-164a, despite of the contest's ending.

Best regards, Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #59 on: September 23, 2006, 09:36 AM »
The GUI now released with the new version 164c has a reduced board flickering (as I hope) and also shows a material balance.

Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #60 on: September 23, 2006, 10:30 AM »
cool  :up:

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #61 on: September 30, 2006, 04:27 PM »
The GUI has been released now in version 1.5.1 which:

a) has reduced flickering while drawing board
b) has scalable GUI (one bigger piece symbol set added)
c) will show material balance (last position)

Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #62 on: September 30, 2006, 05:22 PM »
scalable gui - great.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #63 on: November 04, 2006, 10:46 AM »
Again in SMIRF some smaller improvements have been made.
Now there is GUI version 1.6.3 and engine version 165d.

Regards, Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #64 on: November 19, 2006, 10:08 PM »
a) Again new improvements have been implemented into the SMIRF engine + GUI.

b) Thank you very much for finally receiving the Borland Pro Studio !

Best regards, Reinhard.

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #65 on: December 30, 2006, 12:53 PM »
SMIRF is migrating to Mac OS X. The web pages have been closed. Maybe there will be a comeback in far days.

Best regards and a happy new year 2007, Reinhard.

P.S.: see also notes at: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/external.php?itemid=SMIRF
« Last Edit: December 30, 2006, 03:54 PM by Smirf »

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #66 on: October 30, 2011, 08:13 PM »
For some reasons and e.g. maybe to get some testing results of other 10x8 activists I have decided to publish again an actual donationware version of the SMIRF GUI and its engine BC-176f-2 which also may by used by Winboard-F in combination to HGM's smirfoglot adapter.

Download-link: https://files.me.com/r.scharnagl/ktgt2z

Regards, R. Scharnagl

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Re: Entering SMIRF 8x8 + 10x8 Chess Program
« Reply #67 on: October 30, 2011, 09:02 PM »
Cool  :up:
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