Short: Experimental Chess Author: dch@vlbi.astro.brandeis.edu (Dan Homan) Uploader: dlorre caramail com (Dominique Lorre) Type: game/board Architecture: m68k-amigaos EXChess is a recent chess program with some interesting features. It seems to be a quite good tactician and is interesting because it has not the same "view" than others strong chess programs which can make its moves weaker or stronger. For creating the book, you will need a PGN file without errors. This version is compiled for the 68000 and works with AmyBoard. INSTALLATION First, you must have a minimal Geek Gadgets distribution. If you don't, please do the following : Makedir /GG Assign GG: /GG Assign GNU: GG: Assign ADE: GG The two Assigns for ADE and GNU are for ancient names of the ADE distribution. If you do this you will not have any trouble in the future. Makedir GG:lib Makedir GG:bin Makedir GG:Sys A few words of explanation : The geek gagdets is providing a library named ixemul.library which is a NetBSD kernel. So it is very Unix-like. I don't want to go into details but when you want to install a new Geek-Gagdets utility it will have to be installed here, in the GG: drawer. Now, install the ixemul.library, the name depends on the flavor you choose : Cd GG: Copy ixemul-bin.lha "" Lha x ixemul-bin And ixemul will be extracted to your Sys directory If the archive is in the form tar.gz : Cd G:: copy ixemul-bin.tar.gz "" gunzip ixemul-bin.tar.gz tar xvf ixemul-bin.tar Of course, in this case you will need tar and gzip in your path. If the ixemul is a special flavor you may need to rename it : Cd GG:Sys/Libs Rename ixemul020.library as ixemul.library Rename ixnet020.library as ixnetlibrary Now, all you need is to add the following in your user-startup : Assign GG: /GG Assign GNU: GG Assign ADE: GG: Path GG:bin ADD Assign LIBS: GG:Sys/Libs ADD As I said, this is minimal, you might need other assigns such as info: for GG:info but this is not needed by EXChess. If your are interested, you should have look on the Geek gadgets docs on the Aminet in dev/gg or on the geek Gadgets site at http://www.ninemoons.com. When you have done this, or if you have already a suitable Geek Gadgets installation, crafty can be installed : Cd Copy EXChess.lha "" Lha x EXChess The directory EXChess will be created. DEVELOPER INFORMATION This is the list of modifications I have done for making the Amiga version of EXChess. I have set UNIX to 1, created a makefile and it compiled without any problem with g++ ! Dominique Lorre (dlorre@craramail.com) 01-Oct-98