Marius Roets wrote: Hi!
> > Does anybody know of a application running under GNU/Linux which > could > > convert a database in CB format to either PGN or, better, SCID4 > database > > format? > Does Wine+CB Light/CB/Fritz count? > > > Not really. In the latest CB light they have removed the ability to > write files in any format, including PGN. Even before that, size was a > problem, with CB light only allowing 8000 games. Usually, I use Fritz 8 in Wine for this. (However, I just got an issue of CB magazine for free which I was not able to load in Fritz; I'll have to check out what's going on there.) There is no other way as to use some CB product as they use a proprietary, undocumented format. You'd have to hack it. Note: according to my tests, Fritz8 is the last one that runs easily in Wine. Later versions caused trouble here. Note2: you might get it for an apple and an egg somewhere on ebay or whatever. I think I payed some 5 eur for this converter. Quite expensive IMHO but at the moment the only way. Note3: I wrote up what I had to do in Debian Sarge while ago in some detail here http://www.stellarcom.org/arwagner/chess/chessbase.html > Furthermore, CB light > PGN export (when it was still available) would not export all > information in a database, especially problematic if you have book style > databases (of which my coach probably have hundreds) You're lost with that. CB's ChessMedia stuff internally relies on pretty bad technology that will never ever be portable at all. (Unless M$ opensources Windows Media, to be expected right after the freezing of hell. ;) > This is probably a big hurdle for people switching to SCID or other oss > database programs. For what it's worth, this is the business model of CB these days. They produce the stuff in a proprietary format that only their programs can read, therefore you're forced to buy their programs. Actually, I feel that it wouldn't even be easy for CB themselves to port any of their stuff to another platform than windows due to some underlying designs. But why should they? As long as people buy their stuff, there's no need. And is there any competitor in sight? (If you look at the whole offer. Sicd is a nice database but we can not deliver the stuff discussed here.) BTW: just to mention that Scid has a similar problem as soon as it comes to more than PGN header and move record. How would I transfer e.g. the flags form Scid to CB... Not that I want to, but well. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
