On 10/24/10 23:11, Adrian Petrescu wrote: Hi!
> After seeing this thread, I found a Dream Cheeky board on eBay for $12, > and bought it. I can confirm that it works quite well (at least, the > software does. The hardware is appropriately primitive). > > I think it's definitely worth having an option in mainline Scid for > this, it's actually pretty neat. Ben, do you have any objections to your > Scid changes being rolled in, and your libhid driver being put in source > control somewhere, so people can find it more easily? I'm not much in that board, but if you just write a simple wrapper that does some stdio we can easily support it like we do with the DGT. See http://dgtdrv.sourceforge.net/dgtdrv-3.html for the protocol description used there. I think reusing this approach would be cleaner than adding yet another stub of code and yet another hw interface. What do you think? cu Alexander BTW: the main point about the DGT is not transmission of moves only, it also tells you which piece is on which square _based on the wood_ you place. They've quite a sophisticated electronics behind it. So you'll find some commands in the above protocol that you have to emulate with a simpler board. E.g. getposition that sends FEN of current board position. You'd have to answer that request by your driver in some way. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Next 800 Companies to Lead America's Growth: New Video Whitepaper David G. Thomson, author of the best-selling book "Blueprint to a Billion" shares his insights and actions to help propel your business during the next growth cycle. Listen Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/SAP-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
