Chessbook software

[Ted Gould]

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Phil,

I don't know much about chess, so I couldn't really help you there.  But
what I would recommend is creating a site on Sourceforge
(http://www.sf.net) or Savannah (http://www.nongnu.org) to put your
source up there.  (I guess I'm going on the assumption that you'd like
to Open Source your work)  (OT: Has anyone used
http://forge.novell.com?  It looks interesting, but I haven't seen any
good reviews)

By doing that you'll get some attention in that if people search those
repositories they'll come up with your application.  And, it will also
give you a website that you can point to from Freshmeat.net.

Good luck, I would mind looking at your app, but I don't think I'd have
any good ideas.

		--Ted

On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 08:16, Phil Winninghoff wrote:
> When I retired I decided to learn how to play chess and bought a few
> books to that end. As someone not experienced with the game I found that
> I had to have at least one, and many times several, boards in front of
> me to follow the moves. The diagrams in the books were helpful, but not
> frequent enough. I am afraid I lack a photographic mind. Several years
> ago I tried to address this problem by purchasing some chess software
> that runs on MS Windows machines. It was not exactly what I wanted so I
> began to write my own. I only knew MS Dos at the time (:>( ) so that is
> what I began with.  My monitor was old so I used graphics mode 19 (320 X
> 200 pix resolution) and was unable to get text and graphics on the
> screen at the same time. Big time limitation. Then I discovered Linux
> and Xfree86. Now I have a rather crude version working that is an
> improvement over the printers ink on paper varieties of chess books and
> I want to share it with others without photographic minds who read such
> books.  I went to a couple meetings of this group and decided I may be
> able to find someone interested in having a look at what I am doing. I
> can email the source, the data file and Makefile. It should compile on
> anything that has the Xfree86 library. It requires 1024 x 768 the way it
> is set up, but a simple change to the source can change that.
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