Version 1.02 of OS/2 PM port of GNUCHESS 3.1. Modified by Benny N. Ormson. Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990 John Stanback This file is part of CHESS. CHESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer to the CHESS General Public License for full details. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute CHESS, but only under the conditions described in the CHESS General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been given to you along with CHESS so you can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all copies. PM Chess Version 1.02 The following fixes and enhancements have been made to PMChess in version 1.02. * Pawn promotion was not presenting the correct new piece. Queens were given as Knights, etc. * Initial position of window changed so it does not overlay icons at bottom of screen. * Size of initial window increased slightly and resized and repositioned several text fields in the window. They were not coming out right on my 8514/A setup here. * PMChess now linked with the emulator math library so it will use a math coprocessor if installed. * Exit on the File menu has been corrected so that it does exit the first time you select it. Before it cleared the window but did not remove the window and terminate until you selected it a second time. * New game no longer forces Tone on. It now leaves Tone set as it was in the previous game. * Option settings for Tone and Coords are now saved in the ini file and are therefore carried across executions. These along with the color configuration are the only options saved at this time. These options are saved only if you terminate PMChess via EXIT on the FILE menu. * PMChess now runs idletime priority when minimized. It runs in regular priority all other times. * After a checkmate and a new game is requested, the program would set up the new game with black to move first and would then wait indefinitely. This has been corrected. * PMChess was not using the opening book. Now it does. I also fixed a problem where memory would be eaten up by subsequent loads of the book. Turns out that this is a performance enhancement when starting a new game as well. * The FILE-LIST option has been reactivated. It writes the game record to a file called PMChess.Lst in the current directory. * The FILE-OPEN, FILE-SAVE and FILE-SAVE_AS options have been reactivated. These features are only available when it is your turn to move. Things get really hosed up when they are used while the computer is do its thing. The menu options are disabled when the computer is moving. You can save multiple games. A list of saved games is displayed when OPEN is selected for the user to choose from. * Adjustments made so that the frame window is not displayed until it is resized during initialization processing. * Silenced the logic which tells you that the opponent or the computer will soon mate. I don't want the computer to know about my mating habits and I don't care about its mating habits either :-) * Remove the Review Game item under the Edit menu. There was no code to support. * Changed the initial window placement on the desktop. It now lets PM decide where to put it. This should correct the problem where the top of the window is positioned off screen with low res video. * Corrected a minor gliche in the icon. * Release executable compiled without codeview. This makes the exe file much smaller and improves load time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Version 1.01 of OS/2 PM port of GNUCHESS 3.1. Modified by Kent Cedola for use under the OS/2 PM environment. Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990 John Stanback This file is part of CHESS. CHESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer to the CHESS General Public License for full details. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute CHESS, but only under the conditions described in the CHESS General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been given to you along with CHESS so you can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all copies. >>> The PM version of GNUCHESS is a hard port of the Windows port done by Daryl Baker. My goal was to do the initial port of the code to PM and then hope that another programmer (someone that enjoys chess abit more than I do) will continue with future enhancements. I myself prefer games with lots of hexes. While I did clean up some of the code when I did the translation. The overall structure of this application needs some work. The board should be moved to it's own window for example. I would also like to thank Daryl Baker for his much harder task in converting GNU Chess from a character mode to Windows in the first place. Without his effort I would of never attempted the PM port. *************************************************************** <<<< The below is from the Windows version of GNUCHESS 3.1 >>>> *************************************************************** Version 1.01 of MicroSoft Windows port of GNUCHESS 3.1. Modified by Daryl Baker for use in MS WINDOWS environment Copyright (C) 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Copyright (c) 1988, 1989, 1990 John Stanback This file is part of CHESS. CHESS is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY. No author or distributor accepts responsibility to anyone for the consequences of using it or for whether it serves any particular purpose or works at all, unless he says so in writing. Refer to the CHESS General Public License for full details. Everyone is granted permission to copy, modify and redistribute CHESS, but only under the conditions described in the CHESS General Public License. A copy of this license is supposed to have been given to you along with CHESS so you can know your rights and responsibilities. It should be in a file named COPYING. Among other things, the copyright notice and this notice must be preserved on all copies. Fixes/changes since 1.0 1) Fixed bug where "computer is black" never changed when switched sides 2) Fixed problem with promoting pawn. 3) Changed File Get ... to File Open ... 4) Made fancier Open dialog box, (includes scroll bars amoung other) 5) Properly frees memory when program ends. 6) Made text color selectable 7) Added GNU copyleft to source files. ToDos 1) Code needs to be looked over and cleaned up, routines made "static near", and such. Maybe use -GW switch for several modules. 2) Scalable/scrollable graphics (Probably won't get done) 3) Once pawn is promoted UNDO does not restore to pawn. This also appers in the dos and unix versions of gnuchess. Not sure if I'll fix it. I have tried not to change (this is debatable) the orignal source except to "windowize" it. release notes: 1) I have only tested this under windows 3.0 386 enhanced mode. Seems to work ok in real mode though slower. 2) It requires at least 282k of memory. 3) Fits on a EGA screen, no scrolling implemented. 4) Most of the GNUCHESS commands are implemented. 5) When computer is playing itself abort by clicking on any square. The last move made will most likely show "draw" or "mate", ignore this message. You may have to remove the last move. 6) To have the computer think while it is your turn, select "easy" from the menu. Clicking on square to take your turn will abort the look ahead. 7) There is no help file. 8) The file gnuchess.boo must be in the same directory as the executable. 9) The program create a file "chess.ini" in your windows directory to store various settings. Currently only the screen colors. Enjoy. Daryl Baker dkb@mitre.org