[Bug-XBoard] FW: crafty

[Peter Zachariades]

Hi,

I have tired everywhere including Bob Hyatt.
Can you please email me and attach the speak.exe file, which I need to get
sound working on my crafty. 


-----Original Message-----
From: Robert M. Hyatt [mailto:address@hidden 
Sent: 17 August 2007 16:17
To: Peter Zachariades
Subject: RE: crafty


I do not see a reference to "Speak.exe" that I mentioned.  You must have 
that in your home directory.  A google search should discover one 
somewhere that you can download (I don't have one as it is a windows 
executable and I only use linux here).

You must create a crafty.rc file yourself as I explained in my last 
email.  In that simple text file, you need one line that says "speach 
on" without the quotes.  

Until you have both of those things done, it won't work.  xboard sound 
settings have absolutely no effect on crafty's speech output.


Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D.          Computer and Information Sciences
address@hidden                   University of Alabama at Birmingham
(205) 934-2213                  136A Campbell Hall
(205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170

On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Peter Zachariades wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> Firstly, I would like to thank you for your patience in trying to help 
> me get the sound working on crafty.
> 
> Unfortunately having tried everything you suggested I simply have not 
> succeeded.
> 
> 1. I have created a folder called crafty and placed it on c 
> drive/Program Files. 2. My operating system is Windows XP.
> 3. I run crafty on Winboard4.2.7
> 4. I have also placed the executable crafty20.14 (which I renamed crafty)
> and files book and books and the sound folder english, which contains the
> wav files in my folder crafty.
> 
> 5. I need to know what settings to make to winboard, presumably on the 
> sound menu because it is set to sound off, it seems to want a wav 
> file? 6. I do not have crafty.rc.
> 
> 7. Can you please send me all the files, in addition to those I have 
> mentioned here, that I need to get the sound working on winboard, just 
> attach them to the email you send me as this is the only way I am ever 
> going to have all the necessary files I need. Pleas also include 
> detailed instructions on how to get the sound working especially 
> regards the winboard settings.
> 
> Thank you
> Peter Zachariades
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert M. Hyatt [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: 14 August 2007 16:27
> To: Peter Zachariades
> Subject: RE: crafty
> 
> 
> 
> You usually have a crafty.rc file (for windows) or .craftyrc (for
> unix/linux), where you put configuration stuff such as hash=384M to set 
> a default hash table size, and so forth.
> 
> If you don't have such a file, create a file with the correct name 
> from
> the above two choices, and then insert a line that simply has "speech 
> on" (no quotes) on a single line followed by a <return> as is usual for 
> text files.
> 
> 
> 
> Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D.          Computer and Information Sciences
> address@hidden                   University of Alabama at Birmingham
> (205) 934-2213                  136A Campbell Hall
> (205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
> 
> On Tue, 14 Aug 2007, Peter Zachariades wrote:
> 
> > Hi Bob,
> > 
> > I'm not very good with computer languages, executables and source 
> > code
> > etc, and as such I'm not sure what to do when you say add "speech on". 
> > Also I don't have crafty.rc or .craftyrc or Speak.exe files in the 
> > crafty-20.14 source code, it does contain a file named Speak. I have 
> > windows xp installed. Can you please help me by providing the files I 
> > need and idiot proof instructions so that even I might be able to get 
> > the sound working, especially what settings must I set on winboard and 
> > how? I have created a folder on c drive/Program Files and named it 
> > crafty, it contains the executable crafty-20.14 which I have renamed 
> > crafty so that I could select crafty with winboard-4.2.7, also in the 
> > folder are the files book and books. It works really well and I love 
> > it but no sound.
> > 
> > Regards
> > Peter Zachariades
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Robert M. Hyatt [mailto:address@hidden
> > Sent: 13 August 2007 19:26
> > To: Peter Zachariades
> > Subject: Re: crafty
> > 
> > 
> > Step 1..  add "speech on" to your crafty.rc/.craftyrc file
> > 
> > Step 2..  make sure you have either "speak" or "Speak.exe" (linux or
> > windows) in the same directory where you actually run crafty.
> > 
> > That should do the trick...
> > 
> > 
> > Robert M. Hyatt, Ph.D.          Computer and Information Sciences
> > address@hidden                   University of Alabama at Birmingham
> > (205) 934-2213                  136A Campbell Hall
> > (205) 934-5473 FAX              Birmingham, AL 35294-1170
> > 
> > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007, Peter Zachariades wrote:
> > 
> > > Hi Bob,
> > >  
> > > I run crafty chess through winboard-4.2.7. Please can you tell me
> > > how
> > > to get the sound to work, I have tried but without success.
> > >  
> > > I use the crfty executable 20.14 (if you have a more recent one
> > > would
> > > you please attach it together with its source code), I have the sound 
> > > folder providing English & German wav files.
> > >  
> > > I have tried manipulating the Winboard sound options, thought it
> > > might
> > > be the setting which asks you to browse for a wav file, but couldn't 
> > > work it out, am I on the right track?
> > >  
> > > Regards
> > > Peter Zachariades
> > > address@hidden
> > > 
> > 
> 
>