Engine Updates

Info Only: Cyclone 4.0 & Demon 1.0
These engines have re-appeared and are fully open source now, with Cyclone
being a Toga/Fruit clone and Demon being a Viper clone
While the readme in Cyclone gives credit to the original programmers, Demon does not
Norman Schmidt (Kranium) is the very controversial 'author' of these clones
http://www.cyclonechess.com/
http://www.cyclonechess.com/cyclone.htm
http://www.cyclonechess.com/demon.htm
http://www.chesslogik.com/cyclone.htm
http://www.chesslogik.com/demon.htm

Info Only: Down chess websites
Averno site down for 32 days
Brama site down today
LarsenVB site down today
Pierre site down for 65 days
SharpChess & Sharper site down today
110Mb sites: ChestUCI & Numpty back up
BabyChess site back up

Chess News

Update: Harry Schnapp books
- HS-20moves.abk updated (Arena 2.xx book)
http://americanfoot.free.fr/echecs/hsbook.htm

Bonus Notifications (free stuff)

WPG System 64 1.3b
a 64-bit Native Portable Build and Development Environment for Windows
http://www.cadforte.com/system64.html

Description:
64-bit Windows native development and posix environment for GCC and other languages
GCC supported languages: c, c++, obj-c, obj-c++ & fortran
cygwin dll is *not* required!
after extraction: 50K files, 3.5K folders & 1.9GB of stuff
although WPG System 64 is still beta, it seems to work
NOTE: extract downloaded file to root of C drive, otherwise paths will be wrong!

Featured Components:
- GCC 4.4.1 & GCC 4.5.0 (installed side-by-side) w/ mathlib toolchain and auxilliary & multilib libraries
- Java: Sun Java SDK x64 (Sun Java JRE6), Apache Ant 1.7.1 (Java 'Make')
- Perl: ActivePerl 5.10 x64
- Python: ActivePython 2.6.2.2 x64
- TCL/TK (GnuWin 8.4.1.1)
- GIMP, GTK+, Open SLL, GDB, etc, etc...
- all the usual Unix/Linux utilities
- SVN: Silksubversion 1.6.3 (client & server)
- Msys shell w/ Make, SED, grep, Berkely DB, Perl 5, etc.
- mingw64_make (stand alone)
- Libtool/ltdl 2.2.6 (64-bit), Autoconf 2.63 (noarch), Automake 1.11 (noarch), Automake 1.10 (noarch)
- etc, etc, etc...

This was released yesterday. For me the download was very slow, perhaps because it had just been announced.

Miranda IM 0.8.5
an open-source multi protocol instant messenger client for Windows
http://www.miranda-im.org/