Aaron Putnam  	  May 27 1992, 11:34 am     show options
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From: a...@vector.uoregon.edu (Aaron Putnam) - Find messages by this author
Date: 27 May 92 22:00:31 GMT
Local: Wed, May 27 1992 3:00 pm
Subject: Eaststar ICS bad news.
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You may have noticed that the eaststar ics is down; This is because the machine
it is running on can no longer be used to run it.  So, again, I am looking for
a new site to run / develop it from.  I remember talking to someone on the
server, around the time that it moved to eaststar, and they said that if there
were ever a problem finding a site, to talk to them - well, this seems to be
a problem, but unfortunately I can't for the life of me remember who I was
talking to. :(  If you're that person, or if you have a machine available
from which it could be run (preferrably in the western half of the US, and
definitely not out of the US), please contact me at a...@vector.uoregon.edu.
I would need an account, and probably around 4-5 megs of working disk-space.
The game usually does not use over 2 megs of ram, and that amt will be reduced
drastically soon, I suspect, once I start fixing up the data structures. (ie,
once finals are over and I have free-time again).  The machine should probably
be >= a 68040 NeXT in processing power, or there could be some speed-problems
on the game. (While recompiling, anyways - I doubt it would impact regular
performance).  The faster the machine's link to the internet, the better.

  -Aaron

PS - Please don't offer any accounts that the system administrator would not
     know about. (ie, talk to him/her about the possibility of a chess server
     before just letting me run one on the machine, as many of them will not
     want the resources used for something like this).