Re: computer-go: EGC Computer Tournament

[Daniel Hallmark <dgh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2 February 2000, Robert Jasiek wrote:

> We have to use the computers at the school. They do have Novell/
> Win3.11. I try to organize more modern computers (i.e. Win95 or
> Win98), but they will all be private property, so we should not
> expect more than a few. ASB, you can also bring your own PC.
> I am very sorry for the inconvenience, however, the EGC CG T does
> not have any computer company as a sponsor - that's the reality.
> I assure you that we would prefer modern PCs as well, but only
> old PCs are not enough reason to cancel the entire tournament.


I wonder if the windows applications that need a more modern version will
run under the windows emulater (WINE) available for Linux?  Since Linux is
free you wouldn't incur any additional expense and could set it up on as
many PCs as you like.

The authors of the programs would need to determine (or have someone else
test) whether their apps would run under WINE, but I doubt any Windows
program with a modern interface will run under Win 3.11.  That was a
16-bit OS and just doesn't support the 32-bit Windows API and controls
that are taken for granted by windows programmers these days.

Daniel Hallmark