Re: computer-go: GNU

[Daniel Bump <bump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Where can one find the latest in Windows  98 executable form???
> 
> Thanks...    Tris....

Normally to get the latest GNU Go you need to download the
source code from

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/devel.html

and compile it yourself. You have a choice of compilers.
At least:

DJGPP 
Cygwin, with or without GLIB 
MINGW32 
Visual C++

are known to work. (The first three are variants of GNU GCC
and are recommended.) 

Information about windows compilation is in the INSTALL
directory. We welcome feedback on the accuracy of this
information.

A fairly recent Windows binary was made by Teun Burgers and is
available on the internet at:

http://www.geocities.com/teunburgers/binary.html

This gives you 2.7.229. The absolute latest version is
2.7.230 which runs substantially faster than 2.7.229 
because we changed the default level from 10 to 8. Of
course you can set the level yourself at runtime using
the --level option. I recommend level 8 because level
10 is slow unless you have a very fast machine. Level
10 is stronger but level 8 is still 3 stones stronger
than GNU Go 2.6.

A binary for Macintosh OS X was contributed by Pierce Wetter
and is linked from the GNU Go main page at:

http://www.gnu.org/software/gnugo/gnugo.html

He has been successful running GNU Go with Jago, so a
graphical GNU Go on Macintosh is now a reality.

Daniel Bump