Re: Scramble boards

[mike ledoux <mwl@mclinux.com>]

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Mark Thompson wrote:

>> | It'd be relatively simple to make a backend that creates a GIF/PNG
>> | image and transmits this to the users in the emails...
>>
>> Uh... "relatively simple" ?? Compared to what? Where would all these
>> images come from? Shogi, for example, traditionally uses Japanese
>> ideograms for pieces. Some shogi players would prefer this, while
>> others would probably want some sort of international set of images,
>> and there would probably be much discussion about what that should be.
>
>I write programs in QBasic, inventing a lot of my own tools, and recently
>figured out how to write a program that produces a .BMP file and plot
>points, lines, etc. in whatever colors desired.  I'm sure other people who
>use better languages and have access to those huge libraries of canned

This is at least the third copy of this message that I've seen.  Did
somebody subscribe pbmserv-users to itslef?

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