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From: jmg@cernvax.UUCP (jmg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Chess, curses and Megamax
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Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 07:04:58 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  5 07:04:58 1987
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Since someone posted the chess program, someone else the curses package,
I thought to try to get the two together via Megamax. Various problems,
which some people might have fixes for.

1. The curses package has a routine called overlay. However, Megamax
   uses this as a keyword for its own overlays. Thus, the header
       overlay()
   is rejected because Megamax expects a string after it! Will it be
   fixed in Megamax 2? Will Megamax 2 ever exist? Stay tuned (until 1990?).

2. The chess program uses scanw and printw. They are supposed to be in
   curses, but ain't in this ST version.

3. You also need bzero and time routines. bzero is easy to frig, and time.c
   was recently posted (but it includes getenv, which Megamax equally
   does not have, plus a source code bug which Megamax rightly resents).

4. Even fixing all of the above, two mushrooms. I suspect that the curses
   package compiled under Megamax is not yet right.

If anybody has anything to help all this (debugged curses, library
routines not in the normal Megamax library, Megamax 2) I would be happy
to know.