Abbess new release

[Ras]

Does the engine use a compressed EXE that uncompresses itself after starting? That's a frequent source of such issues. Just don't do that, we're not anymore in the age of floppy disks with scarce storage.

[Gabor Szots]

I had zero problems with it a few dasy ago with this binary signature:

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   Datei: Abbess_2022.exe
     MD5: 23401bfc50626e8f4ab2a7142d31331f
   SHA-1: 2202ed0e400770f4ec0502c5e263429f3bff9e14
 SHA-256: 549a4b0b49f6aefd611fd07f40c8e17eb96f4c29a4d71eecfdaeaf5e98302fa6

But I remember, I had to create a download folder on my own server for a few programs, which
always were marked (false!) positives by google drive and the process to get ridd off this would
have been too annoying and time consuming, thus I decided for migrating those.

I also did not have problems till yesterday afternoon. Then, to my horror, I noticed that all Abbess games were forfeited on time and the exe had disappeared.
I think the virus definition file was replaced in the meantime which caused the virus alarm.

[Robert Pope]

Sorry for all the issues. Windows defender quarantined it on me too. The only other thing I can think of is I switched the compile option from being statically linked instead of dynamic, since not everyone has the .net installed.

I will see if I can figure a way around the issues over the weekend.

[Gabor Szots]

Sorry for all the issues. Windows defender quarantined it on me too. The only other thing I can think of is I switched the compile option from being statically linked instead of dynamic, since not everyone has the .net installed.

I will see if I can figure a way around the issues over the weekend.

Please remember my question about hash size.

[Robert Pope]

Sorry for all the issues. Windows defender quarantined it on me too. The only other thing I can think of is I switched the compile option from being statically linked instead of dynamic, since not everyone has the .net installed.

I will see if I can figure a way around the issues over the weekend.

Please remember my question about hash size.

At the moment, hash size is not adjustable. It is hard coded at 25MB (2 million 12 byte entries).

[Robert Pope]

Sorry for all the issues. Windows defender quarantined it on me too. The only other thing I can think of is I switched the compile option from being statically linked instead of dynamic, since not everyone has the .net installed.

I will see if I can figure a way around the issues over the weekend.

Please remember my question about hash size.

At the moment, hash size is not adjustable. It is hard coded at 25MB (2 million 12 byte entries).

This gave me pause, so I've implemented the winboard command "memory X" to set a X MB hash table, and saved it as Abbess2022B. Max hash is 768 MB.

Can somebody check if this version passes the virus check issues?

[Gabor Szots]

Can somebody check if this version passes the virus check issues?

No virus alert this time.

[Graham Banks]

Can somebody check if this version passes the virus check issues?

Okay here as well. Gauntlet starting soon.

[Robert Pope]

Ugh. Just one of those weeks. I linked to the wrong file and the Abbess2022 link was not the right file.

Abbess 2022B can now be downloaded. Thanks for your patience, everyone.

[Gabor Szots]

Correction.

I have just downloaded both NewAbbess2022 and Abbess2022B. No problem with the latter but Windows Defender complained about NewAbbess2022 that it contained Trojan:Win32/Wacatac.B!ml. I don't believe him.

Anyway, I'm going to use 2022B from now on. Thanks Robert for the memory command.