Ancient Crafties Pack Available

[Jim Ablett]

Ancient Crafties versions v8.11, v8.22, v10.18(Jakarta), v11.13 & v.12.1 recompiled for modern machines.





Ancient Crafties pack JA.
https://drive.proton.me/urls/7DG32GF0A8#k9cPXXQELffU


Following a request from Wilhelm Hudetz I have recompiled these old Crafty dinos.

32bit and 64bit builds.

Crafty v8.11 and Crafty v8.22 need to have 'time per move' set on the command line in order
to function properly in Winboard or Arena eg "crafty ics st=<n>" where <n> is replaced by the number of
seconds per move. They also cannot use gui opening books but can use their own tiny books.

All the other later versions do not need this command line option set and can use gui opening books as well
as their own.

Crafties v11.13 & v12.1 are 32 bit only as 64 bit versions were unstable.

Crafties v10.18(Jakarta), v11.13 & v12.1 utilize 'Edwards tablebases' which I have embedded into the executables (4-man) using Enigma Virtual Box.

Jim.

[Wilhelm]

Hello Jim, this is incredible! Many thanks for this Dinos! No need for 64bit. At their time we all running single Monsters with Win98 and Xp, or was it Win3.11? There are some days gone since this time...
As I said, you are Legend

best
William

[Sylwy]

THANK YOU !!!

[Jim Ablett]

Crafty v8.22 had a corrupted 'books.bin' file (0 bytes) causing it to crash on start up.

Just copy over the 'books.bin' file from the v8.11 version.

The download package has been updated.

Jim.

[Graham Banks]

Welcome back, Jim. Hope all is well.

Any chance you could do 64-bit compiles for a few of the later versions (Crafty 25.0 64-bit through to Crafty 25.6 64-bit) that might run on my 5950x?

Graham.

[Jim Ablett]

Hi Graham,

nice to know you're still around.

Does my new v.25.6 compile not work for you ?

[Jim Ablett]

I found an issue with v12.1. Engine will not run. I doesn't like the opening books. Remove them from the folder and
it will work correctly.

Download package has been updated.

Jim.

[Graham Banks]

Hi Graham,

nice to know you're still around.

Does my new v.25.6 compile not work for you ?

Yes it does. Thanks heaps.

[Jim Ablett]

That's great.

I'll compile the others you wanted and p.m you with the links later.

regards,
Jim.

[Graham Banks]

That's great.

I'll compile the others you wanted and p.m you with the links later.

regards,
Jim.

Much appreciated, Jim.