From: Phil Holland <ek44 <at> BCS <dot> ORG <dot> UK>
Date: 31 oct 1996
Subject: Re: tenjiku and dai (and chu and wa) shogi

Benjamin Good wrote:
> if anyone wants to play tenjiku, dai, chu, or wa (wa w/ or w/o
> drops) with me, or knows of another venue for playing these
> games, please let me know.  thanks.
>
> also, i have tried to run phil hollands shogi variant computer
> program w/o success.  i have asked my friends who know a great
> deal more about computers than i do to get it to run for me, and
> they have also not been successful.  if anyone knows any secrets
> about getting it to run, please let me know.
>
> thanks,
> ben
> bg18 <at> andrew <dot> cmu <dot> edu

Ben,
Sorry to hear that you have not managed to get my Shogi Variants
program to work.  There are 2 possible reasons for failure:

(1) 'Error 13' - caused by the decimal character being set to ','
    (comma) and not '.' (full stop).
    Solution: edit SHOGIVAR.INI to change Mobility Weight from '0.5'
    to '0,5'.
(2) 'File not found' - caused by not having MSAFINX.DLL in the
    system.
    Solution: get MSAFINX.DLL and install in SYSTEM sub-directory
    of Windows.  Can be obtained from following FTP site:
       ftp://bwl.bwl.th-darmstadt.de/windows/util/mem/1mbfort

Let me know if you still can't get it to work.

I also run a postal/email Shogi and Tori-Shogi group, called the
Postal Shogi League.  Several of the members play other larger
variants.  Maybe I could persuade you to join us?  It costs only
2 Pounds per year for non-UK residents, which covers postage and
administration.

HTH..................Phil Holland

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