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david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 35
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 6:03 am: | |
At long last I have uploaded the first alpha release of the new Unity player for Zillions to Github. Please download and try it out.
Binary only release at this stage. I'm looking for feedback on compatibility, bugs, new features, whatever. Please submit a Github issue or let me know by email, as per the readme.
https://github.com/david-pfx/AmzPlayer |
Astrit Bardhi (Aepasa)
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Username: Aepasa
Post Number: 43
Registered: 1-2007
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 2:57 pm: | |
Hi DaviD,
Did you include AmzEngine.exe?
Cheers,
Astriti |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 36
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 14, 2021 - 5:45 pm: | |
Yes. It's in the Engine folder, and there is a BAT file to run it if you prefer.
I'll update the readme. |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 37
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Tuesday, July 20, 2021 - 3:46 am: | |
Oops! Looks like I really made this hard to find. Forgot to publish the draft and forgot to give a link to the actual release. Fixed (I hope)!
Web site: http://www.polyomino.com/2021/07/20/a-modern-zillions-player/
Release: https://github.com/david-pfx/AmzPlayer/releases
Please download, try it out, let me know if there is still any problem. |
Dezeree (Filipp77)
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Username: Filipp77
Post Number: 2
Registered: 7-2021
| | Posted on Sunday, July 25, 2021 - 12:59 am: | |
Nice, I will try it as I am free now in my property in Portugal https://tranio.com/portugal/ I will write my review later |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 39
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2021 - 7:41 am: | |
@Dezeree: is that just an ad, or have you really have bought a property?
{Portugal is lovely, everywhere except the Algarve!] |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 40
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Sunday, August 01, 2021 - 7:44 am: | |
This is to announce a new release of AmzPlayer, with fixes for dependency problems, and animation with sounds.
https://github.com/david-pfx/AmzPlayer/releases
Release 3.0g30 |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 42
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Friday, August 13, 2021 - 6:34 am: | |
This is to announce a further release of AmzPlayer, with fixes for piece scaling and crashes.
https://github.com/david-pfx/AmzPlayer/releases
Release Amz-21h13 |
Shigeki Watanabe (Watanabe)
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Username: Watanabe
Post Number: 48
Registered: 3-2018
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 10:22 am: | |
That's great!!
I want to emulate it too.
I am also using Unity to make a successor to ZoG.
https://w.atwiki.jp/zillionsofgames/pages/505.html |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 43
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Wednesday, August 25, 2021 - 11:24 pm: | |
Amazing! Looks like a Japanese skin over Zillions 2.0 and not like Unity at all.
How are you doing it?
Is this something we could work on together? You can reach me off list if you like david@polyomino.com. |
Shigeki Watanabe (Watanabe)
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Username: Watanabe
Post Number: 49
Registered: 3-2018
| | Posted on Friday, August 27, 2021 - 11:59 pm: | |
Actually, it's made in Unity.
As you know, this interface is the Japanese version.
The game system of chess interpersonal match is almost completed.
But it for the match against AI is in not completed.
https://w.atwiki.jp/zillionsofgames/pages/504.html
https://w.atwiki.jp/zillionsofgames/pages/485.html |
Shigeki Watanabe (Watanabe)
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Username: Watanabe
Post Number: 50
Registered: 3-2018
| | Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 1:25 am: | |
In my system, the transparent of certain color in BMP images is realized, so the piece images for ZRF in ZoG can be used as it is.
(Of course, it also supports transparent PNG images.)
The type and number of captured pieces can be displayed on the outside of the board.
Users can flip the board at any time with the touch of a button, and flip the board automatically every changing turns.
It has function that zooming in and out on the board, and scrolling the board while zooming in.
It is supported to change the piece image in the forward direction and the reverse direction.
These are the features I hoped to implement in the original ZoG.
https://w.atwiki.jp/zillionsofgames/pages/517.html |
Shigeki Watanabe (Watanabe)
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Username: Watanabe
Post Number: 51
Registered: 3-2018
| | Posted on Saturday, August 28, 2021 - 1:42 am: | |
My first desire was to be able to scroll the board in a window of ZoG.
This is because the Taikyoku Shogi, which uses a huge board, cannot be displayed on the screen.
The board of Taikyoku Shogi will stick out of the screen.
My second desire was to be able to zoom in and out the pieces and board in window of ZoG.
Also, I thought it would be convenient if the board was automatically flipped in an interpersonal match (1P v.s. 2P).
I communicated these requests to Zillions, but they were rejected because ZoG was no longer in development.
I would like ZoG compatible software developers to implementation these features. |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 44
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 3:44 am: | |
Have you checked out Polygamo and AMZ? https://github.com/david-pfx
Polygamo already does most of that, and it has an AI of sorts. But getting a generalised AI as strong as Zillions turns out to be a really really hard problem, so I had to give up.
AMZ uses an adaptation of the same player as Polygamo, but with the original Zillions engine behind the scenes. It plays a very strong game. If you can achieve that I shall be most impressed.
AMZ supports both BMP and PNG; it has zoom but not scroll or flip. I shall be very happy to add more UI features, but my strong preference is for a game-like UI, not a Windows-like UI. |
Shigeki Watanabe (Watanabe)
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Username: Watanabe
Post Number: 54
Registered: 3-2018
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 7:27 am: | |
I have played and confirmed both of the software (Polygamo and AMZ) which you developed.
I was impressed with both softwares.
Unfortunately, chess and shogi did not work in Polygamo.
In AMZ player, all the games I checked were able to play against AI, so I was very impressed.
I have played and confirmed both of the software (Polygamo and AMZ) which you developed.
I was impressed with both softwares.
Unfortunately, chess and shogi did not work in Polygamo.
In AMZ player, all the games I checked were able to play against AI, so I was very impressed.
I see, I understood that AMZ player uses the original Zillions engine behind the scenes.
This is a great technique and I also want to apprentice this.
And the versatile AI of the original Zillions engine is also amazing.
I implemented various internal processes such as checkmate, stalemate, threefold repetition, 50 moves rule and other judgments myself, so my software's code is very complicated.
If I can, I want to use the Zillions engine in AI matches in my developing software.
Unity is a great game development environment for various platforms.
Once I've organized the code for my software, I'd like to publish it to you.
It may take a little longer. |
david bennett (Dpoly)
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Username: Dpoly
Post Number: 45
Registered: 4-2017
| | Posted on Sunday, August 29, 2021 - 5:04 pm: | |
Yes, I gave up working on Polygamo with a few features not yet done, including check/checkmate, triple repetition. They would be easy to add, but without the AI not very useful.
If you look at Amz you can see the engine is a local HTTP API server. The interface is not yet stable, but it's easy to call from other programs. |