Hello Bryan!
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Bryan Whitby
1. What is the reason that the pieces cannot be displayed in the MESS Chess UCI program?
Well, I've written the support for pieces long time ago in the drivers of MAME/MESS 0.175, but there's no such code in the current MAME version.
Since the MAME team is continuously (and very quickly) changing the code of the MAME system, the current version is lightyears away from my old version - it's just like a completely different language, and it's impossible to simply add my additional code to the current version, because these versions are not compatible anymore.
I would have to completely rewrite my code for the current MAME version, and this for more than 100 different chess modules - that's something I won't even consider.
MESS-Chess on the other hand is based on MAME 0.205, because it requires LUA-plugins, but these plugins are not supported in my old version 0.175, so you only have the choice between using CB-Emu with pieces and lots of other additional features, or MESS-Chess without my impovements but with UCI/WB support.
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2. In your CB-Emu program you have put in your History notes that the Mephisto B&P is a clone of the following chess computers when the aren't.
Mephisto MM IV Turbo Kit [HG440] Mephisto MM IV Turbo Kit (modified ROM) [HG440] Mephisto MM V 5.1 [HG550] Mephisto MM V 5.0 [HG550] Mephisto MM V 5.1 Turbo Kit [HG550] Mephisto Rebell 5.0 v2 Mephisto Rebell 5.0 v1
Hmm? Where did you see such a statement from me?
I've just looked at my file 'Info_Mephisto.txt', but I couldn't find any such statement, and I'm sure I never said anything like this.
Regards,
Franz