Hi,
danke an 'hap', Berger und Sean für die neuen Geräte (und für die viele Arbeit, die ich damit wieder hatte ).

Beim Novag Sapphire hab ich intern eine zusätzliche Version 'SapphireX' eingebaut, die beim Aufruf von Sapphire in CB-Emu und MessExtra benutzt wird und ein externes Schachbrett hat - das hat allerdings keine Verbindung zum Sapphire, d.h. die Züge muß man selber eingeben (wie ja auch schon bei diversen anderen, brettlosen Modellen).

Die Verwendung als UCI/WB-Engine (mit Plugin) funktioniert nur mit MessChess (oder direkt in WinBoard, Arena usw.).
Das Plugin war wieder eine echte Herausforderung, speziell die programmierbaren Levels (bei diesen muß man hinter den Bezeichnungen ein '+' eingeben, anders war das kaum zu realisieren) - findet man alles im Menü 'Help > Show Engine Levels'.

Einen schönen Sonntag noch,
Franz

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Not as much as us!
I'm not one to complain. Unless I get completely stuck, I enjoy spending hours or sometimes days programming emulation. Likewise, the money spent on 2nd hand chess computers is worth it as well.

Berger and Sean disassembling / dumping / tracing the PCB is also time consuming, but in the end it's all worth it.

Are you sure? I doubt that you had to change/modify/update about 100 files for this new version.

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This feels like I'm bragging, and I'd rather don't want to. But since you asked, yes, I'm certain our combined effort overshadows this CB-Emu update, especially Berger's work into getting Sapphire's H8 internal ROM to finally dump.

Yes, I know this Sapphire wasn't easy to emulate - Berger told me how difficult it was to hack this H8-ROM and I also saw that you had to solve problems with a MAME hardlock first, but as usual both of you finally were successful (as expected from experts like you ).

But don't underestimate the work for each new machine in my CB-Emu package: it's not enough to add the new driver in MessNew and compile it again - I must also implement the new engine in CB-Emu and MessExtra/MessChess, write a new plugin for it, and have to include the new engine in almost 100 different files (folders, artworks, levels, messinfo.dat, WinBoard/Arena configurations etc. etc. ...).

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Yes, of course it takes work by you as well to port those drivers over and make everything fit nice in CB-Emu.

Just please understand why I didn't appreciate your sarcastic remark that the MAME update made you have to work for it, when you know full well how much effort it takes to get this emulated in the first place.

Sorry for ruining the mood, let's continue with the good stuff. =)

Yeah, let's get on with the good stuff!

At the end of the day, after all the work we all do, there will always be some user who writes that this new update is nice, but if the chess computer X or Y are not emulated yet, then... the work done is still imperfect. LOL xD

I will complain... lol... you have made my life X*5 to 10 easier. So yes, I will complain once I am through with Mess and have to go back to remaining dedicateds. That's assuming I don't find random deviations with Mess once I check against originals

Regards
Nick