sronco/mame-chessengine

MAME Chess UCI/XBoard Interface plugin

mame-chessengine's Issues

Saving & Reloading Unfinished Games

Hi Sandro
I use Franz Huber's CB-Emu and I cannot find a way to continue saved games either in Winboard or Arena under MessChess.
I have already tried saving & loading games, saving & loading positions, states, default states.
The nearest I got to was in Winboard to save a position, Mess save default state. Exit program then load saved position in Winboard and load default state in Mess. Then make new move in Wnboard that actually is executed in Mess. Mess now makes its move but Winboard doesn't execute it.
Is there an easy fix for this?
BTW...many thanks for providing this excellent plugin.
Regards
Robotvinnik

MAME 0.189: no pieces on MAME board (academy), nothing happens in xboard

Hi Sandro!

Thanks for your work on Mephisto chess computer emulation in MAME!

I am trying to use academy together with your plugin and xboard, but the MAME chessboard is empty, the top right LEDs are blinking (meaning the Academy is looking for chess pieces, but they are not there), and nothing happens in xboard after my initial move with white, see screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/3Wnd3Xl.png

I think I have the latest artwork files, so I am not sure why this is not working.

Thanks,
Martin

Support for mephisto and glasgow drivers

I am not an expert in LUA. I tried to go over the other code. Whats a good way to add support to a whole family of engines under mephisto? The engine names can be different

Novag Robot Adversary plugin

Sandro, we need your help!
The Novag Robot Adversary plugin would be a challenge worthy of his talent.

mame-chessengine doesn't work with the latest versions of mame

chessengine doesn't work with the latest versions of mame, could you fix it?

Issues with xboard emulation?

xboard -fcp "./mame64 -skip_gameinfo -plugin chessengine chesstrv" does not transmit even the first move. I player e2e4 but only e2 gets transmitted. I locally installed lua 5.3

Support for Computers with special Level-Modus

Hi Sronco. I like your lua-scripts for the dedicated chess-computers. But I have a problem with some machines who have special ways to define a time control. One of many examples is Mephisto Almeria or Mephisto Berlin. It is possible to say e.g.: "Normal 01". But how can I define that I want to play with Tournament Modus and for example 40 moves in 2 hours? I can say: Use Tournament Modus (TOURN 01) but there is no way to define 40 Moves in 2 Hours without doing it manually. That problem exists in many drivers (not only mephisto drivers)