Archive for 2008

U3DC massive rendering and video export

Written by alejo on December 4th, 2008
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I’ve just been playing with the new 1.02 version of Universal 3D Chess and having fun with a couple of new features. Acutally, they might not be the most useful features in the net, but the video export may be welcomed for viewing games when the platform doesn’t allow SGF files (i.e. some portable devices). [...]

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Universal 3D Chess 1.01

Written by alejo on October 27th, 2008
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A couple of days ago I received the new version of U3DC. According to the developer (and I agree on most of them), these are the improvements: – Add a title bar to the main 3D view with short cut to functions (Next/Prev games, Full screen, Edit game info …) – New file format decoding, [...]

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Google Chrome and KGS

Written by alejo on September 4th, 2008
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Yesterday Google launched a beta version of his new browser: Chrome. On one hand, first independent analysis show that this application uses less resources than Firefox and Internet Explorer. It introduces some good features, as the internal task monitor… On the other hand, as it’s a beta version, there are already 3 security bugs described and [...]

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Study tools for Unix

Written by alejo on September 3rd, 2008
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The more I’m using unix systems, the more homesick I’m of windows. It is very secure and has lots of advantages when compared to Microsoft’s operative system, but the lack of powerful go software for Unix as well as good drivers for 3D cards are two of the major drawbacks. Today I’ve been playing with [...]

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“What’s your rank” poll results

Written by alejo on August 25th, 2008
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On the 20th of June I started a new poll in order to know the level of the players who usually visits this blog. Back from holidays I checked the results and the highest mark had already gone over 100 results, so it is time to extract some conclusions from the poll. The ones who [...]

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Universal 3D Chess Review

Written by alejo on June 27th, 2008
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Here you have a review on the final release of Universal 3D Chess: Currently you can only watch it through youtube or download this version with a 1036×676 resolution HERE (encoded with Xvid). The final public realease is already available at the project’s homepage: VoilaMonsieur

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