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Windows: Blowfish (analyser) From:   Mike Rudman Address:   bgpaladin@yahoo.com.au Date:   24 December 2001 Subject:   Blowfish Backgammon Analyser - FREE - Merry Christmas Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   a9xV7.8863$wD1.51871@news-server.bigpond.net.au BG Enthusiasts Announcing the release of Blowfish, a backgammon match analyser tool based on GNUBG. It can read matches in most text formats (eg. Jellyfish (MAT), FIBS Oldmoves, Gamesgrid (SGG), Gammonline (TXT), BGBlitz, BGX. Runs on any 32-bit version of Windows, although if you don't have a fairly recent version you may have to download and install Visual Basic 6 runtime. Download from briefcase.yahoo.com/bc/bgpaladin The download is 3mb+. Unzip to any directory (I suggest the default of Blowfish_ and run Blowfish.exe. See help icon for rudimentary help in HTML format. Alternatively, use a web browser to look at C:\Blowfish\Help\Default.htm. Merry Christmas and I hope you enjoy it. Its taken me 18 months so far, and is still something of a "work in progress". Feel free to email any questions, comments, bug-reports etc. to bgpaladin@yahoo.com.au. So far, it has only had an airing in the GNU backgammon development forum. I think its now ready for its final public beta. Regards, Mike   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

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Windows: Backgammon-To-Lose  (Gamer Cafe Software, Mar 1998) 

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Windows: Jellyfish 3.0 (player, analyzer)  (Fredrik Dahl, June 1997) 

Windows: MVP Backgammon (player)  (Michael Quinn, Feb 1996) 

Windows: Monte Carlo (player)  (Gamer Cafe Software, June 1998) 

Windows: Penguin backgammon (player)  (Pojchara Jatupoj, Sept 2003) 

Windows: Sconyers's bearoff database  (Hugh Sconyers+, June 2003) 

Windows: Snowie 3 (player, analyzer)  (André Nicoulin, Dec 1999) 

Windows: Soumille, The First Trictrac Program  (David Levy, May 2003) 

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