Re: [Bug-gnubg] GNU Backgammon

[Ty Breaker]

> You can't play over a network connection at the moment (strangely the
> only network option is to play against gnubg remotely), I'll add it to
> my "things to do" list as a few people have asked for this and in theory
> it should quite easy to do (that doesn't mean I'll do it any time soon,
> but you never know).
>
> Jon

I've only written one small net game myself and the passive human vs human 
net play was easy.  You've done the hard work in all the glitz and having 
such an intelligent player in the computer.  I have a list of features I'd 
be interested in having available in two-player mode but you sound quite 
busy so I don't want to swamp you with my ideas.  Having said that I 
recommended GNUbg today at work to my colleagues so I have a team of 
"testers" ready as soon as you do get into the 2-player side of things.

On the bugs side of things, I have a DELL 9200 laptop which runs gnubg fine 
as it has a good graphics card inside.  My other PC is a PII with no 3D card 
at all and gnubg crashes when it tries to start up.  Is 3D acceleration 
required even if I just want to have a 2D view of the board on that PC?
The error I get from the Windows crash dialog is:

AppName: gnubg.exe       AppVer: 0.0.0.0         ModName: gnubg.exe
ModVer: 0.0.0.0  Offset: 0002f74b

Nothing is reported on the command line.  I ran the no-gui version and it 
gave the following before also generating the windows crash dialog.

GNU Backgammon 0.14.3-devel
Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 by Gary Wong.
GNU Backgammon is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License
version 2, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it
under certain conditions.  Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GNU Backgammon.  Type "show warranty" 
for
details.
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "C:\Program Files\gnubg/scripts\gnubg.py", line 52, in ?
   import os.path
ImportError: No module named os.path