Blowfish Backgammon Analyser - FREE - Merry Christmas

[Mike Rudman]

BG Enthusiasts

Announcing the release of Blowfish, a backgammon match analyser tool based
on GNUBG. It can read matches in most text formats (eg. Jellyfish (MAT),
FIBS Oldmoves, Gamesgrid (SGG), Gammonline (TXT), BGBlitz, BGX.

Runs on any 32-bit version of Windows, although if you don't have a fairly
recent version you may have to download and install Visual Basic 6 runtime.

Download from briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/bgpaladin

The download is 3mb+. Unzip to any directory (I suggest the default of
Blowfish_ and run Blowfish.exe. See help icon for rudimentary help in HTML
format. Alternatively, use a web browser to look at
C:\Blowfish\Help\Default.htm.

Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy it. Its taken me 18 months so far, and
is still something of a "work in progress".

Feel free to email any questions, comments, bug-reports etc. to
bgpa...@yahoo.com.au. So far, it has only had an airing in the GNU
backgammon development forum. I think its now ready for its final public
beta.

Regards,
Mike

[JP White]

Mike Rudman wrote:
>
> BG Enthusiasts
>
> Announcing the release of Blowfish, a backgammon match analyser tool based
> on GNUBG. It can read matches in most text formats (eg. Jellyfish (MAT),
> FIBS Oldmoves, Gamesgrid (SGG), Gammonline (TXT), BGBlitz, BGX.
>
> Runs on any 32-bit version of Windows, although if you don't have a fairly
> recent version you may have to download and install Visual Basic 6 runtime.
>
> Download from briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/bgpaladin

I got

Access to this Briefcase has been disabled.

JP

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[Kennedy Fraser]

"JP White" <jpwh...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
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> Mike Rudman wrote:

> > > > Download from briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/bgpaladin
>
> I got
>
> Access to this Briefcase has been disabled.

So did I - even when I logged in with my YahooID.

Kennedy

[Michael Howard]

Too bad... it worked for me.
This is a nice program although a little buggy. The cube doesn't show on my
graphic board and I can't get batch analysis to work (if it is supposed to).
Everything else seems great although I have to monkey with some files and
filenames to get them to load.
As expected GNU finds Snowie and JellyFish brilliant in checker play but
alomost useless (Novice/Beginner) with the cube.
I like this a lot and if the bugs are sorted it should be very useful. It
is good to get another opinion on the big two programs.
I look forward to Tony Lezard completing his version of the Dueller which
will play GNU against the others.

Michael Howard
"Kennedy Fraser" <kennedy...@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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[Mike Rudman]

The program has handled all files I've thrown at it. If you have some it
cannot decipher, please send me a copy.

For batch analysis to work, you first need to rollout (or batch eval) the
file. See help icon for more info.

The cube shows only for values 2+.

You should not have to change any file names. By the way, you need to put
them in the C:\BLOWFISH\MATCHES directory (or sub-directory within). It does
not have to be installed to C:\BLOWFISH. but the MATCHES sub-directory must
be there.

Hope this helps and I appreciate any feedback / bug reports. Its been fairly
stable for me for a couple of months now.

Regards,
Mike

"Michael Howard" <mi...@howard666.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Mike Rudman]

Whoops! It seems the traffic to my briefcase has been too high. Try again in
a day or two or send me an email. I can send a Lite version (excluding
bearoff database, which you can get from the GNUBG site), which is 1mb
instead of 4mb.

Regards,
Mike

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