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authorJay <ld.jay@protonmail.com>2020-11-07 09:17:57 +0700
committerWilly Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>2020-11-07 09:17:57 +0700
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games/zseal: Added (FICS Timeseal client).
Signed-off-by: Willy Sudiarto Raharjo <willysr@slackbuilds.org>
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+zseal
+open source client for FICS Timeseal v2 for Linux/Unix systems
+
+Timeseal is a protocol for network lag reporting and compensation used by the FICS chess
+server (freechess.org). Version 2 of the protocol provides better delay stats as the server
+actively pings the client periodically. FICS's FTP repository was taken down a few years
+ago and was never put back on.
+Since then, there has been nowhere to download a trustable timeseal client for Linux systems.
+
+
+To use with xboard, append "-icshelper zseal" to your normal xboard command line.
+
+ xboard -ics -icshost freechess.org -icsport 5000 -icshelper zseal
+
+
+Assuming Slackware's gnuchess package is already installed on your system,
+the install script will integrate and enable zseal in eboard automatically.
+(Otherwise, follow the instructions for eboard configuration in /usr/doc/zseal-1.0/README.)