Short: GNU Chess frontend and ICS client Author: wiedmann@neckar-alb.de Uploader: wiedmann@neckar-alb.de Version: 330.5 Type: game/board Action: NoStart TITLE AmyBoard VERSION 330.5 (means: xboard-3.3.pl0, Amiga revision 5) AUTHORS Chris and Dan Sears (Original xboard) Tim Mann, mann@pa.dec.com (xboard since version 2.0) Amiga port: Jochen Wiedmann Am Eisteich 9 72555 Metzingen Germany Phone: (0049) +7123 / 14881 Internet: jochen.wiedmann@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de DESCRIPTION AmyBoard is a graphical chessboard, that can serve as a user interface for GNU Chess, for the ICS (Internet Chess Server) and for itself as a PGN (Portable Game Notation) file editor. The original xboard can also be used for electronic mail correspondence chess, but this possibility is not yet integrated into AmyBoard, as this requires cmail, which is a Perl script. As an interface to GNU Chess, AmyBoard lets you play a game against the machine, set up arbitrary positions, force variations, or watch a game between two machines. As an interface to the Internet Chess Server (ICS), AmyBoard lets you play against other ICS users, observe games they are playing, or review games that have recently finished. You can also use AmyBoard as a chessboard to play through games. It will read and write game files and allow you to play through variations manually. You can use it to browse games off the net or review GNU Chess, ICS, and correspondence games you have saved. These features are available at all times; even if you do not have access to GNU Chess or the ICS. CHANGES 322.5: Minor bug fixes 330.5: Incorporated changes from xboard 3.2.pl2 to xboard 3.3.pl0, most of them minor bug fixes SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS AmigaOS version 2.0 or later MUI version 2.0 or later (available on Aminet, dev/gui) Installer (available on Aminet, util/misc) To play against GNU Chess you need the gnuchess package (available on Aminet, game/board) To connect to the ICS, you need Internet access, either by - a standard telnet program using stdin/stdout, for example AmiTCP/IP's telnet or - a terminal program using stdin/stdout, for example IPDial (available on Aminet, comm/tcp) AVAILABILITY Aminet, for example ftp://ftp.netnet.net/pub/aminet ftp://ftp.uni-paderborn.de/pub/aminet Internet chess servers, for example ftp://chess.onenet.net/pub/chess/Amiga Distribution consists of three archives: AmyBoard-330.5bin.lha Binary distribution AmyBoard-330.5src.lha Original xboard-3.3.pl0 sources AmyBoard-330.5diffs.lha Amiga sources and a pathfile DISTRIBUTABILITY Freely distributable, most parts under GNU General Public License (except for DEC's interest) AmyBoard is Copyright 1991 Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts (Original xboard) Copyright 1992-1995 Free Software Foundation, Inc. (Enhancements since version 2.0) Copyright 1995 Jochen Wiedmann (Amiga port) Please read the files COPYRIGHT and COPYING for details. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 2169 749 65.4% 12-Aug-95 12:41:48 AmyBoard-3.3.pl0.patch 628 266 57.6% 12-Aug-95 12:45:24 +Amiga.info 48476 11580 76.1% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +amyboard.c 482 262 45.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +AmyBoard.guide.info 4726 1669 64.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +amyboard.h 601 358 40.4% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +AmyBoard.info 256 166 35.1% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +AmyBoard.texinfo 10055 2628 73.8% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +amyedittags.c 8072 2644 67.2% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +amygamelist.c 20126 6207 69.1% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +args.c 2043 841 58.8% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +args.h 12013 1801 85.0% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +bitmaps.c 678 172 74.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +b44x19o.bm 678 179 73.5% 12-Aug-95 12:35:28 +b44x19s.bm 770 199 74.1% 12-Aug-95 12:35:28 +b44x22o.bm 770 198 74.2% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +b44x22s.bm 678 185 72.7% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +k44x19o.bm 678 202 70.2% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +k44x19s.bm 87 67 22.9% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +k44x22o.bm 770 225 70.7% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +k44x22s.bm 678 191 71.8% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +n44x19o.bm 678 205 69.7% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +n44x19s.bm 770 209 72.8% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +n44x22o.bm 770 221 71.2% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +n44x22s.bm 678 158 76.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +p44x19o.bm 678 165 75.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +p44x19s.bm 770 172 77.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +p44x22o.bm 770 169 78.0% 12-Aug-95 12:35:28 +p44x22s.bm 678 232 65.7% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +q44x19o.bm 678 224 66.9% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +q44x19s.bm 770 252 67.2% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +q44x22o.bm 770 237 69.2% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +q44x22s.bm 678 156 76.9% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +r44x19o.bm 678 163 75.9% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +r44x19s.bm 770 184 76.1% 12-Aug-95 12:35:24 +r44x22o.bm 770 169 78.0% 12-Aug-95 12:35:26 +r44x22s.bm 31630 8567 72.9% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +childio.c 2324 833 64.1% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +config.h 8552 2255 73.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +DMakefile 767 480 37.4% 12-Aug-95 12:35:28 +ReadMe.mui 506 266 47.4% 12-Aug-95 12:35:28 +ReadMe.mui.info 2421 972 59.8% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +gettimeofday.c 33890 8939 73.6% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +Install 569 316 44.4% 12-Aug-95 12:35:20 +Install.info 39579 9599 75.7% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +muiclass.c 125321 30944 75.3% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +parser.c 4674 1540 67.0% 12-Aug-95 12:35:22 +time.c -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 376573 98416 73.8% 14-Aug-95 16:48:52 47 files