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ajhager
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Gameroom Crashes
« on: Mar 6th, 2006, 9:41pm » |
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I'm having the same problem it seems a lot of people have had under linux, with the gameroom crashing around move 20, and then every move after that. I've tried firefox, mozilla, and opera.
I'm wondering if anyone has figured out a stable way to play on linux. Also, I'm wondering if I would be allowed to make a simple curses gui utitilizing the bot interface code if there isn't a stable alternative.
Playing Bomb_2005 with 1 minute moves and having to restart my browser, connect to arimma, load the gameroom, watch its move, think, make my move...gives added meaning to a blitz game. 
Thanks,
Aaron Hager
p.s. I did read the forum post:
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/forum/cgi/YaBB.cgi?board=talk;action=display;nu m=1135295242
The only conclusion was that opera sucked as much, less of the time. And that it wasn't the browser's fault anyway. Omar, do you plan on eventually defining an arimaa protocol like winboard or UCI; allowing others to develop and maintain frontends. (and also allowing a consistent interface if someone else were interested in developing a server.)
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Fritzlein
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #1 on: Mar 7th, 2006, 7:09am » |
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Thanks for offering to make a front end, Aaron. Maybe Omar will be willing to offload that responsibility even if it takes some up front (yuk yuk) effort on his part to define the protocol.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #2 on: Mar 7th, 2006, 6:05pm » |
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There already is a protocol, but I just need to document it. I'll try to do that pretty soon.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #3 on: Mar 8th, 2006, 9:46am » |
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I got the same crashes under linux and i already started to build a GUI for Arimaa to play against my bot. The GUI is nearly ready. You can already play against yourself  . If there will be a documentation for the protocol i will implement it.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #4 on: Mar 8th, 2006, 11:33am » |
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I just finished writting up the protocol specs. You can find it here.
http://arimaa.com/arimaa/protocol/
This should allow anyone to develop a client program with the same level of features as the current Flash client. This protocol is based on HTTP. So you may encounter some problems with connection lags and connections being closed while waiting for data. I plan to eventually define a protocol for a telnet type connection.
If you encounter any problems send me a message through the 'Contact' link on the main page.
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ajhager
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #5 on: Mar 8th, 2006, 12:22pm » |
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Wow. Thank you for your quick response. It brightened up even a cold rainy day such as this. (in Indiana no less) I will keep you all informed of my progress.
Aaron Hager
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #6 on: Mar 8th, 2006, 12:57pm » |
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Awesome. Now I can fantasize about a non-Flash Windows client, in case some of the problems are due to the Flash rather than an inevitable consequence of http connections.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #7 on: Mar 8th, 2006, 1:44pm » |
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Very nice!
I made a small but stable version of my GUI:
http://homepages.uni-paderborn.de/olaf/arimaa/SAG.jar
You will need an up to date java virtual machine and you can start it with java -jar SAG.jar.
I never tested it on Windows or MacOs, but it should run there.
Now i will start to implement the protocol.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #8 on: Mar 8th, 2006, 2:55pm » |
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on Mar 8th, 2006, 11:33am, omar wrote:| I just finished writting up the protocol specs. You can find it here. |
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Nice development.
One observation:
The "get game state" command pair returns *loads* of data. In order to reduce the network traffic it might be useful to have a command of the type "update game state", which only returns the most recent move, together with the time reserves, server time, and recent chat messages.
But I don't really know how important network traffic is anyway.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #9 on: Mar 9th, 2006, 6:08am » |
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Good suggestion, Toby. The chat text and the move list have the potential of getting very big and can start to make the client feel a bit slugish. I will add an update command to the protocol.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #10 on: Mar 9th, 2006, 8:45am » |
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Added the 'Update Game State' command.
Also changed the 'Login' command so that either username or email can be given.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #12 on: Mar 9th, 2006, 9:54am » |
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It was checking to make sure you were a bot Fixed it.
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #13 on: Mar 9th, 2006, 10:23am » |
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ok, now it works
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Re: Gameroom Crashes
« Reply #14 on: Mar 9th, 2006, 6:49pm » |
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on Mar 8th, 2006, 1:44pm, borg wrote:
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but I get these error messages:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: while resolving class: ArimaaGui.Board
at java.lang.VMClassLoader.transformException(java.lang.Class, java.lang.Throwable) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.VMClassLoader.resolveClass(java.lang.Class) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.Class.initializeClass() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at ArimaaGui.Main.Main() (Unknown Source)
at ArimaaGui.Main.main(java.lang.String[]) (Unknown Source)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.call_main() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at gnu.java.lang.MainThread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.lang.Enum not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:SAG.jar], parent=gnu.gcj.runtime.ExtensionClassLoader{urls=[], parent=null}}
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.VMClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.ClassLoader, java.lang.String, byte[], int, int, java.security.ProtectionDomain) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String, byte[], int, int, java.security.ProtectionDomain) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(java.lang.String, byte[], int, int, java.security.CodeSource) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String, boolean) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(java.lang.String) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
at java.lang.Class.forName(java.lang.String, boolean, java.lang.ClassLoader) (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)
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