Help for Horizon 1.0 released for windows

[Brithney]

Hi all programmers and good year to everybody.A minute of silence please for Feike Boomstra. Thanks. I am Brithney and I work In " Croix Rouge" in Sénégal.I am from Florida. I want please to know if someone ED or Bert can permit to us to have a copy of Horizon to play.Thanks you.

[Ed Gilbert]

Brithney, the present state of horizon on Windows is that it can run only as a DamExchange Follower for playing automated games against another program. There is no user interface, no board display, and no way to use it manually. It would be a nice project for someone to connect it to a GUIDE user interface as described by Bert and Michel, but AFAIK no one has committed to doing that work.

-- Ed

[Brithney]

Thank you Ed for the precision.I have Truus i want to know if i can do dxp game against your version of Horizon.and Idont understand perfectly dutch is itpossible to help me withe the menu of Truus (it is the analysis version).Thanks again.

[Ed Gilbert]

I have Truus i want to know if i can do dxp game against your version of Horizon.

I don't think this is possible yet, as presently horizon only implements the Follower side of DXP protocol (Bert can correct me if I'm wrong), and the same is true of the truus dxp server. If you have flits, or dam2.2, (or another program capable of Initiator) then a match is possible because these programs can do the Initiator side DXP.

-- Ed

[BertTuyt]

Ed,

you are right, i have only implemented a follower side of DXP.
Nevertheless it is possible to play a game (as Human) against Horizon by using the Dam 2.x GUI.
However the more sophisticated things like move back etc.. are not possible .

Bert

[Marcel Kosters]

Hello Brithney,

Interesting to read that you are in Senegal. In Dakar? Last year, the Senegalese and Dutch Federation started a cooperation project. Do you also play or teach draughts?

Marcel
(board member Dutch federation)