Re: [Bug-gnubg] where to put hyper database on Mac OS?

[Michael Petch]

On 2014-01-15 05:00, Robert-Jan Veldhuizen wrote:
> Thanks for your response Michael. Unfortunately neither of the two
> people I'm trying to help, get it to work: it doesn't show up in the
> evaluation engine window, nor is it available as a game variation
> under Preferences.
>
> One of them mentioned his MacOS 10.9 is actually called Maverick; 10.8
> is Lion. Maybe that has something to do with it? It's also on 64-bit
> systems, for the record.
>

I only have a 10.8 system (64 Bit) here but the 10.8 and the 10.9
version are the same ones. I assume he is using the pre-built version
available at the gnubg.org website? (As well what version of GNUGB is he
using). If he built his own the location will be different. Before I
emailed you my original answer I used the makehyper program to generate
the files and I moved them to that exact directory and they were found -
and the About page verified they were loaded.

I can only think his files are corrupt or not named correctly. They do
need to be named hyper1.bd, hyper2.bd, and hyper3.bd . Any other names
and they will not work. Did he genrate his own or download them. If he
downloaded them where did he get them from?

I am thinking there is something they are missing and likely not a bug.

> Anyhow, thanks for the help, I hope we somehow get it to work and I'll
> report back. I had no problem using hypergammon on Windows7-64bit, one
> just needs administrator rights to move the file to Program Files
> (x86)/gnubg.

Yep, they load on my Win7 system as would be expected.

>
> Since I've been playing hypergammon in matchplay, I realised normal
> backgammon match equity tables will be off by a fair margin probably,
> because of the much higher gammon and backgammon rates in hypergammon.
> So I'm experimenting with building a special hyper3.met, which so far
> indeed is quite different from ordinary METs. If I reach some further
> progress on it, I'll post a version of it. Is anyone aware of an
> existing MET for hyper matches? I couldn't find one on a quick search.
>

I don;t now of any, but if someone created one we could integrate it
into GNUBG. Probably have to change the GUI so that we can explicitly
set a Hypergammon only MET. It would be used if someone starts a
Hypergammon match. At present you would have to manually change the MET
before a match.

-- 
Michael Petch
GNU Backgammon Maintainer / Developer
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