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Hello everybody.
Stello 2.0 othello is out with features such as
- Works under Gem, all Atari computers, all screen resolutions, (x
resolution must be at least 640).
- Supports Multitos and WINX.
- Uses multitasking under Multitos.
- Advanced gameplaying algoritms, alfa-beta minimax, iterative
deepening, response killer table, saves game tree and uses the
zerowidth minimax modifikation.
- One of the best Othello programs in the world.
- Background pictures on the board as black/white or color.
- RSC files in english, german, french and danish.
- Dialogs in windows.
- Nice interface (3d buttons and checkboxes even under old tos
versions, niceline menus, animation of disc's).
- Printing of moves, board and transscript as ASCII, GDOS or Speedo
GDOS.
- Export of moves, board and transcript as ASCII or META file. This
means that you can take the output and use it in a wordprocessor
that supports import of META files.
- You can set the size of the output, (boardsize of 4 - 16 cm) 2
types of transcript, (with or without disc's) and turn on/off the
border text (abcdefgh, 12345678)
- There is a (very primitive) fontselector, and you can choose the
output device (printer from 21-30 and meta file from 31-40)
- Context sensitive help with St-Guide.
New in Stello 2.0
This is a major update. Here is a list of the most important
improvements.
- I have implemented the zero-width minimax modification in the
normal alfa-beta search, which means 10 % fewer nodes to examine.
- The "brain" has been much improved, which means that it now gives a
more accurate and stable evaluation of the positions.
- Endgame search now 10% faster. (16000-23000 moves/sec on a TT)
- Special endgame search mode where Stello can search for a "Win",
"Win/Draw" or "Max disc". The "Win" search is 10-50 faster than the
"Max disc" search, and in extreme cases up to 200 times faster.
- Stello now evaluates its commandline, so you can drag games to its
Icon, and it will then load it, and you can install Stello with a
DOC type of "GAM", so it will start and load a game if you click on
it.
- Stello now also supports the drag & drop protocol under Multitos.
- The filename is displayed in the game window so you can see what
game you have loaded.
- Manual input of games is now completely mouse controlled.
- GDOS and Speedo GDOS is now supported. This means very nice output
via printer and META file. If you don't have GDOS you can still
print and export as ASCII.
- Window with transcript of game.
- Context sensitive helpfile for St-Guide.
- various bugfixes (It should now finally be possible to load games
and pictures on TOS 1.0 and TOS 1.2)
More details in the documentation. Stello is a Shareware game. I have
uploaded the game to the following ftp sites, in the file
STELLO20.LZH.
ftp.uni-kl.de
ftp.uni-paderborn.de
ftp.cs.tu-berlin.de
atari.archive.umich.edu
micros.hensa.ac.uk
ftp.cnam.fr
Happy Othello playing.
Claus J. Pedersen.