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Subject: Re: Zappa Retail: No UCI?

Author: Wolfgang Battig

Date: 12:46:59 09/04/05

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On September 04, 2005 at 12:58:38, A. Cozzie wrote:

>>Is the rumour true, that Zappa 2.0 retail will NOT be sold as UCI engine and
>>therefore NOT be used under Fritz, Shredder and Arena but only under its own
>>GUI?
>
>It is still under debate.  Basically we don't trust certain interfaces that set
>your hash to 1MB and do other evil things of that nature.  Vincent especially
>thinks that such trickery will only increase in future versions.

the "1 MB-Bug" is solved under CB-GUI with new UCI.dll and there are (as far as
i know) no problems under Arena

>
>His solution is to not support UCI.  My solution is to not care.  A possible
>compromise solution may be to release with WB2 support only.

not supporting UCI is a big mistake. In case you support WB2 only, people will
take another adaptor (WB2UCI) to let it play under CB-GUI. And that, Anthony, is
not a good solution for your program, because if there are problems under CB-GUI
they occure with WB-Engines using the mentioned adaptor.

>
>>If so: Who shall buy it then?
>
>Realistically speaking the number of people that would use the engine in fritz
>is very small.

i don't think this to be true. and it is not only Fritz-gui. many people use
Arena (free and really good) or Shredder-classic by SMK. so we have enough good
GUIs and there is no real need to have another one.

>Also, the new gui really is rather nice.

without UCI-support it is useless for me and for many other users as you can see
in this thread

>
>anthony

Wolfgang



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