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[Gatleos]

Current Version 1.2b, Updated February 23 2011

So, lately I've noticed that down in the Forum Games board people have been having ASCII chess matches.

...Okay, not that many. Anyway, it inspired me to program a piece of software to help out with just that. It's a game programmed in C++: ASCII Chess! I just finished up implementing all the core features I was planning on (which I will explain below), and it's officially in the beta stage. That's where you come in. Test it out for me! It's ideal for forum chess matches, and it has a built-in in-game screenshot function for quick image uploading. Have a chess match. Have a chess tournament. Or just screw around with it and tell me what you think. I'm open to suggestions!

Here's what we have so far:

Spoiler: Play... Uh... Chess! (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Save/Load Multiple Chess Games in Progress (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Change Settings, Including Rules and Appearance. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: No ASCII Game is Complete Without Randomization! (click to show/hide)

Download (.rar)
Download (.zip)

Give me any feedback, bug reports, suggestions, etc. here!

[Devling]

*High fives*

[de5me7]

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR100.dll was not found"

Running XP

[Gatleos]

"This application has failed to start because MSVCR100.dll was not found"

Running XP

That's the Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Dynamic Link Library a library you need on your XP machine to run C++ apps made in Visual Studio.

Try downloading this and installing it.

[breadbocks]

Can you save it as a .zip? My computer hates .rars with a passion.

[Neonivek]

Nice Parody/Satire of ASCII

[Gatleos]

Can you save it as a .zip? My computer hates .rars with a passion.

Hyup, there's two download links now.

[breadbocks]

At first glance:

...

It's generally accepted the white/the person with the queen on a white square goes first.

EDIT: Also, about halfway through, an error popped up, which I was too stupid to save.

[Xgamer4]

I don't play ASCII chess, but it seems ultimately pointless if you still have to printscreen the window and upload it. Might I suggest a "export board to clipboard" option, where it puts an ASCII representation of the board on your clipboard? Might be more useful for forums.

[Gatleos]

I don't play ASCII chess, but it seems ultimately pointless if you still have to printscreen the window and upload it. Might I suggest a "export board to clipboard" option, where it puts an ASCII representation of the board on your clipboard? Might be more useful for forums.

I was going to add something like that in but more along the lines of an in-game print screen function that could just produce an image from the whole window or just the board right away. I suppose a pure text-to-clipboard option could be nice too.

[ExKirby]

If this works, there will be a massive cake with your name on it.

EDIT: Alas, no cake for you. When I ran the .exe, my computer stopped responding to anything (I'm using Windows XP as my OS)

[Gatleos]

If this works, there will be a massive cake with your name on it.

EDIT: Alas, no cake for you. When I ran the .exe, my computer stopped responding to anything (I'm using Windows XP as my OS)

Any error message?

Try downloading this and installing it.

[ExKirby]

If this works, there will be a massive cake with your name on it.

EDIT: Alas, no cake for you. When I ran the .exe, my computer stopped responding to anything (I'm using Windows XP as my OS)

Any error message?

Try downloading this and installing it.

No, it just freezes up. Ah well, let's see if the download makes any difference...

EDIT: Good news and bad news. Good news is, it now works. Bad news is, I've found a glitch with Castling. Here's what I did.

1. Selected the King
2. Moved the cursor two spaces to the right, so it's next to the Rook
3. Pressed Shift
4. ERROR MESSAGE.

It's the default "The program needs to shut down, send error report to Microsoft?". No specifics.

[Gatleos]

If this works, there will be a massive cake with your name on it.

EDIT: Alas, no cake for you. When I ran the .exe, my computer stopped responding to anything (I'm using Windows XP as my OS)

Any error message?

Try downloading this and installing it.

No, it just freezes up. Ah well, let's see if the download makes any difference...

I just tried the program on an XP with no problems. I'm not sure where that error is coming from. You might as well download the new version instead of that download in that link. The new version includes that library in the download. Speaking of which...

Version 1.1b

• Bugfixes
• Screenshots! During a game press F1 to export the whole screen, F2 to export the board and captured pieces area, and F3 to export the board without the captured pieces.
• You can choose whether you want to see the randomized combat text in the settings.
• msvcr.dll is included in the download, so you don't need to install the redistributable.
• The version number on the title screen still says 1.0b! Crap.

[ExKirby]

You say Bugfix... but I still have the Castling bug.

EDIT: Good news and bad news. Good news is, it now works. Bad news is, I've found a glitch with Castling. Here's what I did.

1. Selected the King
2. Moved the cursor two spaces to the right, so it's next to the Rook
3. Pressed Shift
4. ERROR MESSAGE.

The error is "asciichess v1.1b.exe has encountered an error and needs to close".