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fermat@fermat.dartmouth.edu (Michael Glenn) writes:

>> Anybody else out there have Mike Ferris' excellent Risk.app and spend
>> as much time with it as I do?  :~)  I'd be interested in an exchange
>> of computer players with anybody who's written them.

>I downloaded the pre-release version 0.95, and was waiting for 1.0 to come  
>out.  I looked again, and all I could find was 0.95 on sonata.  This  
>version is very slow (compared to the mac version that ran on my macintosh  
>SE which is at least 25 times slower than my NeXTStation Turbo...)  It  
>also had only 1 computer player... (it had 2, but the other one just sat  
>there and never moved)  And this guy is very easy to beat.

>I think the interface is really nice, and look forward to its completion.

I, too, was waiting for version 1.0, which Mike said to me in email once
had been sent to the maintainer of sonata for posting there.  It didn't
appear before I lost my ftp access.  :~(

Anyway, agreed that the computer players shipped with 0.95 are not a
challenge.  They're not intended to be.  Diagnostic is only there to be a
predictable foil to your own players while you're developing and testing
them, while Chaotic is intended to serve as a sample of a sort of full-
fledged player and show you how to use various features of the API.

I've developed a few players in the last few weeks, most of which were no
good.  :~)  But my latest seems to be not bad.  I can still beat it pretty
regularly, but every now and then it kicks my butt good.  I'd be happy to
NeXTmail it to you, if you're interested.
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