[OLPC-Games] Play Go issues for laptop

[Paul Barchilon]

I sent this message last week, but it came back with a message that it  
needed moderation (I guess because I included a screen shot).  It  
appears to have never been posted to the list, so here it is again  
without the image:

Hi Andres,

I spent a good deal of time playing with the program and overall was  
quite impressed!  It looks great, and plays fairly well.  There are  
many little problems, and a couple of major ones.  The scoring engine  
got the wrong result on every game I played, there are clearly some  
mistaken instructions in the module itself.  Should I post the  
problems to this list or would it be better to talk about them on the  
phone, or during a game on KGS?  This week is looking pretty busy for  
me, so it would have to be next week for the latter.  I am on mountain  
time in the US, where are you?

Also, I am unable to right click in the software.  I think the  
emulation doesn't recognize my mouse.  Option click or command click  
don't trigger it either.  This means I can't access the jabber online  
play option you were mentioning.

When I browse the web, sites are enlarged to the wrong screen  
resolution.  As a result, fonts are huge, and you can only see the top  
left corner of a web site, even one that is at 800x600.  Is there a  
way to control this in the program, or from outside of it?  Is it  
doing this because I am on a Mac and using an emulator?  I attach a  
screen shot of our Tiger's Mouth site so you can see the problem.

Thanks,

Paul

http://tigersmouth.org

Paul Barchilon
1005 36th St.
Boulder, CO 80303-2139
303-440-7124



On Oct 12, 2008, at 1:50 PM, Andrés Ambrois wrote:

> On Sunday 12 October 2008 17:28:15 Paul Barchilon wrote:
>> Hi Walter,
>>
>> That was exactly the right question to ask!  I was trying the LiveCD
>> method with XO-LiveCD_080919.iso, which didn't work.  When I  
>> created a
>> "new PC" in Qemu and told it to use olpc-redhat-stream-ship.2-
>> devel_ext3.img then it worked.
>>
>> Still trying to figure out how to get the screen size to the
>> appropriate dimensions, and now I have to figure out how to use your
>> OS.  From there I will load PlayGo and get back to all of you.   
>> Thanks
>> for the help, I am glad I got in finally!
>
> Great! I'm glad you got it. To install PlayGo just head to
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/PlayGo with the Browse activity and click  
> on the
> PlayGo.xo link in the box on the upper right. Then you can launch it  
> from the
> Journal or in the list view in the Home.
>
>> Here is another comment from the kid who is giving me feedback on his
>> laptop:
>>
>> From	leinad
>> Date	10/11/2008 23:39
>> Subject	RE: one thing about playgo i can
>> i dont think it is online i think you have to be physically near
>> another XO...
>> and i do not have access to wi-fi that frequently...
>> also i noticed that the program does not take away dead stones...
>>
>>
>> I am not sure if he means it doesn't take dead stones off during  
>> play,
>> or at the end, both are important though.  I will definitely want to
>> play a game with Andres on KGS, I think we could figure out all the
>> problems quite quickly that way.
>
> I'm not sure about what he means by that either. The game does take  
> away
> dead stones, and supports collaboration. To play it "online" you  
> will need to
> connect to an online jabber server. If you have a recent version of  
> the
> system, this is done by right clicking on the "XO guy" in the home  
> view ->
> Control Panel -> Network and typing: jabber.laptop.org in the  
> "Server" field.
> Then, you will need to click on the "tick" mark and restart Sugar.
>
> Sure, I'm on KGS now as a guest, my handle is aambrois. Please go  
> easy on me
> =P.
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Paul
>
> Thank you!
>
>> http://barchilonceramics.com
>>
>> Paul Barchilon
>> 1005 36th St.
>> Boulder, CO 80303-2139
>> 303-440-7124
>
>
> -- 
> -Andrés