| Title: | AMIGA NOTES |
| Notice: | Join us in the *NEW* conference - HYDRA::AMIGA_V2 |
| Moderator: | HYDRA::MOORE |
| Created: | Sat Apr 26 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Wed Feb 05 1992 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 5378 |
| Total number of notes: | 38326 |
Once upon a time (a few years ago), a GO program was developed by
Bruce Wilcox and Prof. Reitman at the University of Michigan, Ann
Arbor. This was part of Bruce's thesis work.
After graduating, Bruce went to work at Intermetrics and has since
re-implemented the program. This was not a simple port. He went
from a mainframe to a micro, from a world where memory was cheap
and you were charged for cpu time to a new world where cpu time
was free but memory and disk resources might be in short supply.
Some of the algorithms were new, improved, etc. Oh yes, this also
involved writing it in C instead of some flavor of LISP.
Anyways, the commercial version of the program is known as Nemesis,
and was originally available on the IBM PC or thereabouts. It has
also been ported to a variety of other systems. Does anyone know
if an Amiga version is available? For that matter, is a VAX version
available?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 801.1 | Hah! Another Go player! | 16BITS::KRUGER | Tue Oct 13 1987 22:46 | 16 | |
I am also dying to play Nemesis, even though by all accounts it
is pitiful on an absolute scale. As far as I know, it has been ported
to the Mac and IBM, but not the Amiga. I believe he quit his job
and now works full time at go, right?
In any case, if you like playing go, perhaps we could get together
and play sometime?
For those who don't know the rules, I have posted them in note 679
in the games notesfile.
A friend is currently converting a net version of Pente to play
go, incidentally. As all the I/O is the same, I expect it will not
take very long.
dov
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