Jason, John and Quackle team, You are the ones that rock. Thanks so much for all that you do to further better Scrabble play for all.
Best regards, Chris Cree ----- Original Message ----- From: Jason Katz-Brown To: Crunchy Gelatinous Prolans ; [email protected] ; uk-s ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; ozscrabble ; world scrabble Cc: Prof Clair Brown ; Richard Katz ; Dan Matza-Brown ; Dorian Lidell Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2008 2:53 AM Subject: [quackle] QUACKLE 0.96 RELEASED Rabbito! John O'Laughlin, John Fultz, Matt Liberty, and I are frabbit to announce Quackle 0.96, available for FREE download from http://quackle.org Here's a quick link to the 0.96 Windows installer: http://quackle.org/downloads/quackle-0.96/quackle-0.96-windows-installer.exe Quick link to the 0.96 Mac Intel installer: http://quackle.org/downloads/quackle-0.96/quackle-0.96-macosx-intel.dmg Here are the new features in Quackle 0.96: 1. Specify partial opponent rack during simulation. 2. Endgame solver generates a list of the top moves, instead of only the single best one. 3. Add 5-point challenges to especially swinging moves. Boo-yah. 4. Dapperly improved simulation details dialog that includes bingo likelihood on future turns. 5. Forward/Backward commands to easefully traverse completed games. 6. British words can optionally be marked with # and colored red on the gameboard. (Check out the new "Settings" menu to disable this feature.) 7. Play Scrabble in Greek. Mad thanks to Dorian Lidell. 8. Bethwack computer players into giving you an answer right now. 9. Add and view positional notes that are saved in GCG. 10. On Windows, click on a .gcg file to open it with Quackle. 11. Load and save gcg's that include mis-scored plays gracefully. 12. Updated French ODS5 dictionary. I am extremely happy that Quackle has had such a warm international impact. You all rock. Thank you very much. --Jason, John, John, Matt
