Re: [pbmserv] For linux- ***and windows-*** using xiangqi players!

[joss <joss@nekrodomos.net>]

All,

Sorry to keep spamming about this topic. This will be the last message, 
I hope.

I just noticed that there was a bug in boardparse where a piece taking 
another piece wouldn't overwrite the old piece. I have now fixed this, 
and updated the downloads on the webpage. If you downloaded and tried 
this code, then you _really_ want the new version:

http://www.pseudonymity.net/~joss/games/xiangqi/board_parse.html

Thanks a lot,

Joss

joss wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have now had a chance to test the Xiangqi board parsing program under 
> Windows XP. I am happy to say that it seems to work perfectly with the 
> latest version of Ruby. I cannot test this, but I see no reason why it 
> won't work on other version of Windows that are supported by Ruby.
>
> You do have to install Ruby first, however. This is not difficult, but 
> requires you to download about 20Mb of files. My apologies to people 
> with slow connections.
>
> I have updated the page at: 
> http://www.pseudonymity.net/~joss/games/xiangqi/board_parse.html to 
> include instructions for installing this program under Windows. Thank 
> you to the people that pointed out it would run in that environment 
> after all.
>
> If anyone has any (relevant) problems then I will be happy to try and 
> help you sort them out.
>
> Yours,
>
> Joss
>
>
> Jian wrote:
>
> >    Hello joss,
> >
> > I am a player of xiangqi and it has been a long time since I wait for 
> > an interface graphic as for the one that you propose to be able to 
> > play on the PBM server.
> > It is damage that you propose it only for the users of Linux. For my 
> > part, I use Windows XP and I think that most of the players use Windows.
> > The game of xiangqi is not practically more played on the PBM server 
> > probably because we have only diagrams ascii for the moment.
> > Would not it be possible that you study the possibility to propose us 
> > a graphic interface turning under Windows?
> > You can see examples for other games to : 
> > http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/dologin.php
> >
> >             Greetings
> >
> >                  jian (on PBM server)
> >
> > ==============================================
> >
> > joss a Ãcrit :
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I recently signed up to this server because I wanted to play Xiangqi. 
> > > I wasn't completely overwhelmed by the text-only board, though. I 
> > > couldn't find a graphical interface, so I quickly threw together a 
> > > program to take the text-only board and display a graphical version.
> > >
> > > If you run Linux, play Xiangqi (and are interested), I've put it up 
> > > on my website at:
> > >
> > > http://www.pseudonymity.net/~joss/games/xiangqi/board_parse.html
> > >
> > > It's not hugely polished, but it displays a board in a more appealing 
> > > fashion than you get from the emails. I don't intend to develop it 
> > > further, but if you have any problems I'll try and help.
> > >
> > > Enjoy!
> > >
> > > Joss

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