Eul_Bofo

Everything works fine now. Thank you. No licensing problem, as I have an old window$ 98 provided with a former computer. \bye Eul_Bofo

What is wrong with a different interface if it provides the same functionnality ? I think you see this from a very pessimistic point of view. Generally, people needing an alternative interface, like me, work on everything but Window$... and know a bit more about programming than the usual window$ user. For example, BOINC (a massively parallel network computer grid) propose an open source client, and accepts alternative clients, and there is no such things as "users complaints". Again, this is very pessimistic. I personnaly had to hack a window$ copy to be able to play bridge for a long time now. I'm happy NetVuBridge works (quite) fine under wine now, but I sure would have prefered a Linux client. Just give the protocol, people using alternative systems will handle it. If the protocol is correctly designed, this shouldn't be a problem. No such things as "seeing the four hands" bullshit (why do you play bridge ? To be the best, or to PLAY ?). Your point of view about one/several person taking decisions is quite misplaced : a person can take the decisions, and share the knowledge with others to take care of alternative solutions. As long as one person owns the server... where's the problem ? Who denies the right for Fred to handle all this as he wants ? Yeah, funny thing ! There are open source clients for online chess, go... and quite a lot of games now, going quite OK, but no bridge project. Well, there is a gnu project of a game server, but I don't know where it is now. I think BBO gained quite a lot of the "market", and at this point, it should be good to allow ANY user to play, regardless of is operating system. But it's only my point of view, I know this has been thoroughly discussed, so I'll just take the wine client... at least this is better than bloody window$ ! ;) \bye Eul_Bofo PS : please see my other post about fonts problem under Linux :)

I found it quite nice to have NetVuBridge work under wine. I only have one problem : the fonts for colors (♠♥♦♣) doesn't appear right on my screen, so I have to translate @ to heart... which doesn't make the game easy to follow. Does anyone know how to solve this problem ? Thanks for any tip. And thanks for the nice work. But I'm definitly not rich enough to have window$ on my computer. \bye Eul_Bofo