Update Information: April 16, 2012 (Updates)
Engine Updates
RomiChess P3L (WB)
Win32/64
- C source code is no longer available
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/details1/RomiChess.html (Leo site)
Chess News
WinBoard 4.6.1 (WB/UCI)
the original Chess GUI
http://hgm.nubati.net/news.html (new features)
http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=51528 (Winboard forum download)
Zarkov 2.5/2.6
old DOS native engines
http://www.top-5000.nl/cp.htm (Ed Schroder site)
Down/Problem Chess Websites
Bestia homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Dann Corbit homepage down for 294 days
Lyapko Utilities homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
Tony's Chess homepage down today (a 110mb.com site)
NOTE: Google-hosted sites are going down, then coming back up. Maybe Google is upgrading servers?
Wiki Changes
Nothing new today
Bonus Notifications (recent releases of free stuff)
Warnings:
- do not install unwanted toolbars, etc.
- alpha releases have new features; crashes and bugs are to be expected
- beta releases have new features; they may contain bugs or crash
- release candidate software may contain minor bugs; crashes are rare
Aptana Studio 3.1.1
web software development in an IDE supporting HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Ruby, Rails, PHP and Python
w/ code assist, built-in debugging, Git intergration, built-in ftp, and more
http://www.aptana.com/
Comodo Dragon Internet Browser 18.1
Windows only; free; based on Google's Chrome browser, with improved security and privacy
stops cookies, no web spies, prevents browser download tracking, etc
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
Digital Mars D Compiler 1.074 & 2.059
free cross-platform compiler; an efficient and modern OO language
http://www.digitalmars.com/d/download.html
Orwell Dev-C++ 5.2.0.0
excellent cross-platform open source C/C++ IDE
- fully supports 64bit Windows MinGW compilers
http://sourceforge.net/projects/orwelldevcpp/
Meaning of Colors
Red = New or Warning
Green = Updated
Gray = Info Only
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