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07/18/02 03:11:59 PM  
Name: Kimmo
Best expert: 63
Best intermediate: 20
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Roelof (and others as well), I posted here last time about a year ago. I didn't play minesweeper for a very long time but now I've played some weeks and even got new records. And I'm getting better all the time. I also found Active ranking and maybe it keeps me playing more. Good luck everyone!
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07/18/02 02:36:14 PM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Yoni, sorry. I don't have the 51 of Vincent, but his 54 with a 3BV of 113.
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07/18/02 02:29:53 PM  
Name: Sorin
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Comments: I concentrated on Int today and I got 16 2x17 3x18 3x19 and a 58 on expert. Great job Damien. I'm still far away from you...
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07/18/02 01:02:30 PM  
Name: Dan
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Comments: Shit, Damien. I haven't been able to play like that since January. I've gotten mostly 54s and 55s this period with one 52. I've had a few games that should have been upper 40s, but I can't finish those.
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07/18/02 12:46:40 PM  
Name: damien
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Comments: you're providing tough competition owen...decided to get some scores for the rankings last night and got 2-13-48. i surprised myself for a bit...last time i played i lost two 50's on the last click and lost a 49 last click as well...last night i won a 51, 50, 48, 50, 51 in a row in 15min (and i had to find the last mine on the second 50), and i got another 51 and two 52's (other scores were a 56 and 54)...i don't normally play that well.
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07/18/02 11:30:21 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: Ranking, I'm not able to mail you on my updated score as my mail is not working at the moment. 2-14-52
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07/18/02 11:28:35 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: It wouldn't install properly on my pc so I can't use it. I might give it a retry soon though. Sounds like a very interesting program. Soon, we'll all bve talking about differant 3BVs! I still haven't been able to beat my 14 for this period. Although in two days sweeping this week I got, 15x2*, 16x3*, 17x3, 18x3, 19x8, 14* on Dans infamous board, 15*, 16x2*, 17, 18x6, 19x5 That's 35 sub 20s I do believe. I'd love to get the dreamboard again. It's been a year nearly
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07/18/02 10:56:33 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Yoni, I can send you Vincent's video. Must have it somewhere. Ben, 3BV can be counted with Benny's program. You count 1 click for each possible opening, and 1 click for each number square except from these which are "border" of an opening. Hope you understand. btw, I think my personal lowest 3BV is 112 (not finished).
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07/18/02 10:36:58 AM  
Name: Ben
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Comments: How do you count that 3BV? Is it with Benny's program? I tried it, but it doesn't work . Help?
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07/18/02 08:32:29 AM  
Name: Active Ranking
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Comments: **** Deadline tomorrow @ 20:00GMT/4:00EDT ****
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07/18/02 07:34:51 AM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: Where can I find a picture of Vincent's 51 board?
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07/18/02 06:30:28 AM  
Name: Dan
Best expert: 46
Best intermediate: 11
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Hehe, I guess I forgot I had that 103 3BV board on my homepage.
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07/18/02 02:49:23 AM  
Name: Elmar
Best expert: 66
Best intermediate: 19
Best beginner: 2
Comments: i got my exp best on a 156 3BV board. that's pretty much isn't it? the same speed on the 98 3BV board would've gotten me a 42!
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07/18/02 12:12:22 AM  
Name: Georgi Kermekchiev
Best expert: 73 with 133 3BV
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Comments: Dan, The friendliest board I've ever counted was Vincent's 51 - only 98 3BV as I remember ... and the second best board is the missed one at 35 seconds that can be found on your home page - 103 3BV! For the expert board theoretically the friendliest board has 1 3BV and the slowest one has 381 3BV ....
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07/17/02 09:48:21 PM  
Name: Gabe
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Best intermediate: 32
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Hello everyone!
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07/17/02 08:08:05 PM  
Name: David Barry
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Comments: I got a 54 on a 111 3BV board.
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07/17/02 06:23:26 PM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: I passed through many of my expert images and the board with the smallest 3BV was 118. Someone probably got something lower- but 113 is definitely very-very low.
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07/17/02 05:21:37 PM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
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Comments: I'm sure this has come up before, but does anyone know what the friendliest expert board(bechtel standard) is that we know of? I just got a 113, but I'm pretty sure there have been a few a bit better. Have there been any below 100? By the way, I guessed wrong on a 50/50 near the end of the game mentioned above that would have been a 48 or 49.
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07/17/02 03:39:02 PM  
Name: :-)
Best expert: 28
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Comments: Cool Site!
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07/17/02 12:04:33 PM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: Well done Elmar, Lance and the other person!
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07/17/02 11:11:00 AM  
Name: James
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Comments: Hmmmmmmmmmm..........I think that this summer heat is getting to me. Yesterday I sent a desperate sounding e-mail to the AR hoping that i had not missed the deadline.. Well, at least i have 2 more days. Yesterday I realized that my Exp. record (86) was my 8th sub-100. Since then I have had 42! other sub-100s but have not broken my record! However, I am now much faster than I was then, as my Int was at 32 then, and is at 22 now. James
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07/17/02 06:46:04 AM  
Name: Active Ranking
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Comments: **** Active Ranking 2 Day Warning ****
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07/17/02 02:59:10 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
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Comments: Congrats Lance, Elmar, Trung! James, I just love Europe
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07/16/02 07:02:24 PM  
Name: Brad
Best expert: 92
Best intermediate: 28
Best beginner: 1
Comments: AHHHHHHH.... finally an update and none of my times get up there??? I guess im going to have to send in my screen shots again
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07/16/02 06:06:24 PM  
Name: Trung Do
Best expert: 64!!!
Best intermediate: 25
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Wow, it's been a lucky day for me. First I got up early (700) then my prof decided he didn't wanna teach for 3 1/2 hours, so he let us go 45 minutes earlier than usual. Then just around 530 I got it. Was kinda a lucky board, things were pretty spreaded out. Yay, 4 secs off my previous 68's. Haha
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07/16/02 04:17:17 PM  
Name: Yoni Roll
Best expert: 65
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Congrat Elmar! You might pass me soon if I won't start beating records.. You're only 3 seconds back. Manu, I've just sent you an E-mail.
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07/16/02 02:10:40 PM  
Name: James
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Comments: I do not *have you, I *hate you.
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07/16/02 02:09:05 PM  
Name: james
Best expert: 86
Best intermediate: 22
Best beginner: 3
Comments: Well my internet is still down, but my playing has been going very well. I've proven to myself that my 22 was not so lucky by getting two 24s. I do not think that sub-20 is imposible with my curent speed. I have stugled with Expert but had one game that was a sure sub-80 if I could have goten a guess right. My goals are 2 - sub-20 - sub-80 by October. I have you European bastards. Do you guys realize how lucky you are? I hate this fucking continent. James
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07/16/02 01:23:19 PM  
Name: Elmar
Best expert: shouldve been 65!!!!!
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Comments: aaaaaaaaaaah, i just missed a new exp best because of a stupid click on the last mine!
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07/16/02 11:59:48 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: hehe, I also got my girlfriend addicted to Minesweeper!
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07/16/02 11:31:56 AM  
Name: Elmar
Best expert: 66
Best intermediate: 19!!!!!
Best beginner: 2
Comments: well, what can i say? new week, new record! got my first sub 20. it was about time after i had more than a hundred sub 30s this week(i've started to keep record of all my times). with 6 sec improvement i might even become "biggest jumper" in the active ranking this period. Elmar
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07/16/02 08:24:42 AM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: 61
Best intermediate: 14
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Yoni, I just said it was fun to play, don't imagine that we are good at it ! The higher level i went to is 160 or smg like that, with a total around 1800 pts. I don't even know exactly how to do to make more than 10pts/level ! Email me if you don't mind giving me little explanations...
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07/16/02 07:40:54 AM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: Congratulations Lance! I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who play Icy Tower after all, although I haven't played it for a pretty long time. I almost didn't play minesweeper too (In the last month I finished 8(!) intermediate\expert games- that is only one game every 3.75 days...) What are your\ your girlfriends records, Manu? (My record is 40829 and the highest level I got is 326 (The points record and levels record are not in the same game)
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07/16/02 06:09:02 AM  
Name: Manu
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Comments: Congrats Lance !
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07/15/02 10:20:07 PM  
Name: Lance Votroubek
Best expert: 62
Best intermediate: 16!!
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Well, at long last, I've finally beaten my intermediate record. I have felt as thought I've had really great speed recently, I've just bumbled a few really great boards. Ten minutes after I got the 16, I messed up what would have been a 15 at 12 seconds when my hand slipped. This active ranking period is turning out very good for me, it is already my best, with a total of 80 seconds, where my best overall total now stands at 79 seconds. My previous best active ranking total was 83x2, and I still have a few days to try and sit down to play expert and maybe make a new record there. I know I have sub-60 speed, I just need finish some more games, like I was doing last night on intermediate. Anyway, happy sweeping all! Lance
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07/15/02 04:02:11 PM  
Name: Paul
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Comments: I've played Icy Tower about half a dozen sessions. My biggest combo is around about 2.5k, and my highest score about 6k. Finding it hard on the rare occasions I get to level 200+ though.
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07/15/02 01:23:01 PM  
Name: Manu
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Comments: Hi Ben ! It's nice to hear from you ! I don't know if I can make your girlfriend addicted to something too, but the aim is just to find a game that you can make her think she plays better than you ! ( I hope Ilse won't read that... ) More seriously, the only thing I want before to go on holiday is to improve my 18 for this period on inter, a 16 or 17 would be better with a 2 and a 61 !
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07/15/02 07:43:20 AM  
Name: Ben
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Comments: Hi everybody! I just returned from a week on the Eolic Isles (small volcanic islands just above Sicily, Italy). Great! I saw a volcano erupting... And again, during my holiday heroic things have happened on OTHER people's minesweeper boards. I remember Sorin's sub-50, of course, but to him and all other record beaters: yeehaw! During the first week of August, I'm going to seek for sweeping inspiration in Denmark. Should be a great destination to do that I guess. After that, holidays are over for me. shite. The last two weeks of August, however, I will be in Marburg, Germany for "professional purposes". In the meantime, I have to work on a paper I should have had examination about on July 5th. Due to loads of work, I postponed that exam to September 6. So not much time left for mines. I was just wondering whether any of you was interested in this information... Hey Manu, how do you get your girlfriend addicted? Tell me, it could save large portions of my life.
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07/15/02 07:05:01 AM  
Name: Manu
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Comments: Hey Yoni, my opinion has changed about Icy Tower... it's really fun ! Even my girlfriend is addicted now !
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07/15/02 12:17:07 AM  
Name: damien
Comments: hey sam: most people here are 15-21. hey mike...great to hear from you again. know who Tom Kelsh is? (3-15-56) he found the site this week (he was listed on chris paradise's rankings) but he is only 38, but he's still playing. There is also a 45 year-old homemaker and mother of three who has something like an 86+ and then there's a doctor from china whom I haven't posted yet who's 56. About the vid...i just cleaned my box out now so there's room to receive your vid...someone sent me a ridiculously big attachment that filled my allotted space. great to see you back. hey owen...i do the same as dan...reset the clock to the month i downloaded it in. enric...i'm remembering you...you'll definetly get posted when i update the site again to july.

07/14/02 07:07:03 PM  
Name: Sam Beane
Best expert: 107
Best intermediate: 30
Best beginner: 5
Comments: I am only 17 years old and I'm wondering if there are any other young players out there. I was also wondering about the XP version. I think that is the best version just because to my knowledge, it is impossible to cheat, although all of my scores are on the win98 version. good luck in your clicking.
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07/14/02 02:15:13 PM  
Name: Matt McGinley
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Comments: I just got my 5th 12 amongst 32 other sub-20's today. Still no sign of the dreamboard. I got Damien's 13 board but missed on the second click. If I can improve my 56 for this period I can sub-70 total.
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07/14/02 01:21:33 PM  
Name: Grzegorz Gorny from Poland
Best expert: 83
Best intermediate: 27
Best beginner: 4
Comments: Damien i sent you my scores(screenshots).Would you put them on the list?
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07/14/02 08:41:01 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
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Comments: It was fantastic Stephan. I hardly dared to watch when that Latvian guy tried to get away over and over again... What a performance from Erik Dekker! Hehe, Kroon said before the race that he wanted to ruin "Le quatorze juillet"
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07/14/02 08:24:22 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: Yo Mike. First time I've ever heard from you. When I first came here you were miles ahead of me. My records were then 2-20-83 or so. Sorry to have overtaken you bro Thanks Yoni and Dan for your advice. But I'm glad to say that I cracked it myself. Dan you should crack it properly. Try out what yoni said. If that doesn't work I'll send you my crack that worked. No more resetting the time then..... I still haven't beaten my 14 this period or gotten a 2. The timer jump wrecked two would be 2s for me that I got on video. But i've been getting loads of 17s and going quick. I think I'm improving at int for definate and If I get a dreamboard, watch out Matt It's good to stir things up a little! Be afraid Matt, I'm going to eat your children. Flesh won't be enough, I'm going to take your title and your soul.
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07/14/02 08:19:31 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Roelof, you're interested in cyclism? Three dutch cyclists at the top of the current Tour de France stage, you must be proud?!
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07/14/02 04:18:23 AM  
Name: Benny Benjamin
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Comments: Yes Sorin, please send me the screenshots. 199 3BV is not very strange, I've seen 230 3BV. I've got a 78s on a 180 3BV board, why can't you get 199 3BV in 59 since you're much better than I am. 3BV is also relative and not absolute, especially if you flag. It is still in my opinion a good method to benchmark boards in general, but still it doesn't mean a lower 3BV count is always a faster board for all styles. It just *generally* is, not *always*. My program was not meant to cope with cropped screenshots, as I actually look for pixel coordinates. So edited and cropped screenshots can fling the pixel coordinates, and just one pixel off can screw it all. Even non-cropped screenshots can have different coordinates due to different title bar and menu bar fonts, so what I did was to find some colour patterns of pixels that mark the board starts, if these patterns are not present or if they are duplicated outside the board, then the detection will not work. Even if I map the pixels on the board's squares, the coordinates will be relative to the screenshots and not the screen, while your program would do it relative to the screen. My program works by scanning a picture which won't tell you where in the screen the picture was captured from. You might have to redo what I did and more, all from scratch if you want to make a video. What language was your mouse hook written in? It doesn't seem to be in VB, which I wrote my program in. The window seems to be manually coded, I'm guessing C/C++.
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07/14/02 03:17:33 AM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: 61
Best intermediate: 14
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Comments: I've been signing this guestbook for more than a year, but Mike was just a name in the list for me ! Welcome back Mike ! I thought your inter time was 18, not 17... so I think you must have the 13th sum ever !
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07/13/02 10:34:40 PM  
Name: David Barry
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Comments: Mike, I think that Damien mentioned a 56-year old sometime back, though I may be confusing minesweeper for something else. And sorry for doubting you at the time when you got your 53; I started to believe your times after a few other no-flaggers started to appear. Good to see you're back playing.
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07/13/02 08:18:43 PM  
Name: mike lowder
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Comments: Hi Dan, Yes, its been a while. When I said I retired I meant it. But I had so many people say that they didn't believe me when I say I don't mark bombs that I finally got some time starting last week and I decided to try and play some and record it. I thought it would take longer than a week to come up with a 60 second game. But I was lucky and had some good guesses and got a 60 second game recorded. Not too bad considering I haven't played for a year and a half. I was 8 spaces away from a 50 second game but I had to guess and I missed. Maybe the time off was good for me. I may try for another week or so to see if I can get a sub 60 recorded but I don't know if it is worth it. After that I really am officially done with minesweeping. I can't seem to be able to send the video to Damien though. I also would like to know from everyone if I'm the oldest minesweeper out there. I'm 40 this year is there anyone older than that out there?
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07/13/02 07:47:07 PM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
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Comments: Hi Mike, haven't heard from you in a LONG time.
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07/13/02 06:11:20 PM  
Name: mike lowder
Best expert: 53
Best intermediate: 17
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Comments: Damien, I tried to email you a video of a game I did, but I got a "could not deliver email" back. Is your email still "thefinerminer@hotmail.com" like its posted on the web site or is it something different. Please email me and let me know. Mike Lowder
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07/13/02 04:32:43 PM  
Name: Matt
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Comments: Was Khor the first person to get a 1 sec. beginner?
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07/13/02 02:59:41 PM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: Sorin, your problem reminds the problem I had (with my "problematic pictures" if you remember those). Maybe if you send me the picture, and I think Benny will also want to see it- Him or I will be able to understand the problem. I think that maybe the video size on the screen is extended or decreased to fit the player's size- it should be visible on the screenshot. Owen, You can try using the following serial: Name: LibX \ TNT!Crack!Team Serial: B904067E94F5657B61 It worked for me
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07/13/02 01:29:57 PM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
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Comments: Owen, all you need to do to get rid of the green text at the bottom of the Camtasia video is set your computer's date back to within 30 days after you first installed Camtasia. That is what I do.
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07/13/02 10:29:25 AM  
Name: Sorin
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Comments: Yes so I did. The funny/weird thing is that I did exactly that at first(cut the player borders) and it showed me about three quarters of the board, the first 5 or 6 rows were grey. the lower rows were missing. When I removed the player borders then nothing showed any more. ...weird...
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07/13/02 10:07:02 AM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: Sorin, I took a screenshot from a video (from media player) and it worked fine. Be sure to cut the borders just as they are in a normal screenshot (directly from the minesweeper window and not from the video)- one or two pixels' lines different can make it not work.
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07/13/02 09:54:10 AM  
Name: Sorin
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Comments: First of all Benny! I got your propram and my 59 board has 199 3BV. How did I found that out? It's easy...at least I thought so. I played the video and when the game was done i saved the screenshot. I cut the minesweeper window, saved it, and loaded into your program and... nothing (all squares were grey in the window below and 1 3BV showed in the right). I tried a few things but the only one that worked was to cut the 480 squares from that 59 and place them in another screenshot (made from the game not from video) over the older 480 squares. I hope that's clear. If not try to make a screenshot from a video and then count the 3BV and you'll understand. Try it, maybe it just happened to me. I think I can make a program that can write in a file(as text for example) the time and place(pixel on the screen) where a click was made. Then the position of the minesweeper window should be found (I think there is a function for that). Third, you could write in a file a map of a board (from the screenshot). It could be a 16x16 matrix(for intermediate) containing 1,2..8 and M for mine, or something.
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07/13/02 07:37:37 AM  
Name: Stephan
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Comments: Congrats Sorin, Elmar and Manu! Really weird how many players lowered their records drasticly within the last months. I'm getting nervous as I recently finished 71,72x3,73x2 but got not a single sub-70. Probably I'll have to take the penalty one more time.
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07/13/02 06:46:03 AM  
Name: Benny Benjamin
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Comments: Congrats again Elmar You must feel really good now,
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07/13/02 06:44:33 AM  
Name: Benny Benjamin
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Comments: Congrats Sorin That's a lot of clicks to make in 49 seconds. My program will need a lot of further work if you want to know which square does a given coordinate belongs to. Actually it's so much work it's like starting from scratch. How I catch whether there are mines or not is just by getting a certain start point (at 10,11 of the top left square), and then check the blackness of that pixel, and then jump 16 pixel to get to the same position on the next square. So it doesn't map the squares as it would have if you want to know which square are being clicked. As it is now, my program is still a long way from being finished. But the next stage are dealing with files and storage, I don't think I'll be adding more into the reading algorithm unless they need to be fixed.
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07/13/02 06:39:52 AM  
Name: Elmar
Best expert: 66
Best intermediate: 20
Best beginner: 2!!!!!
Comments: damn, i'm on fire!!! after a new best expert on sunday and a new best int on monday, i just got my first 2 on beginner. it was a 3 click board. unfortanetly i don't have it on video. would be nice to see if the timer bug cost me a 1. but honestly i don't think so. that adds up to 5s improvement in less than a week! juhuuuuuuuu!!
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07/13/02 06:01:23 AM  
Name: Sorin
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Comments: Thanks for all your kind words. I got a 59 on video and I counted 197 3BV (or whatever you call it). I'll download Benny's program right now and check because that seems too much. We could record the place and time where a click was made and then make the screenshot at the end. Combine those two and a "video" can be made. It would take a lot less resurces, but it will be easily to cheat. It's an older idea but now it's possible due to Benny's program What can I say Owen... it just happened .
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07/13/02 05:52:09 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: PLease, are going f****** MAD here. I can't get a crack. I've gone to a good few crack sites for camtasia 2.1.1 and haven't gotten anything. Anyone got the answer?
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07/13/02 05:34:58 AM  
Name: Owen
Best expert: 52
Best intermediate: 12
Best beginner: 2
Comments: Chill out Damien. No need to apoligise! You are the founder of this site as the Ancient One says. You can have exceptions for yourself man Anyway. I'm gonna have another go at this crack thing for camtasia cause I got a 14,15,16x2 on video but those annoying green words at the bottom of the recording wrecks them Damn it. I forgot to say Well Done to Elmar, Manu and the people who I am currently forgeting about. Well done guys. Keep up the good work. And Sorin - you did have to beat your recrod by 5 seconds didn't you! hehe You know what I mean.
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07/13/02 02:25:50 AM  
Name: Enric Herrero
Best expert: 92
Best intermediate: 26
Best beginner: 4
Comments: Damien, I sent you my personal records at the three levels with the screenshots about three months ago. I improved them and I sent you my new records about three weeks ago. I've posted the records two or three times in this guestbook, but surprisingly I'm not on the lists . Don't worry, but please don't forget me if you update someday.
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07/13/02 12:05:56 AM  
Name: Hack
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Comments:
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07/13/02 12:04:15 AM  
Name: Hack
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Comments: Testing
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07/12/02 08:10:29 PM  
Name: MICHEAL
Best expert: 1
Best intermediate: 1
Best beginner: 1
Comments: SERUOIS, WHY DONT YOU GUYS USE THE CODES, AND STOP THE TIME.
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07/12/02 08:08:27 PM  
Name: BJ
Best expert: 1
Best intermediate: 1
Best beginner: 1
Comments: WHATS UP FAGS, YOU GUYS SUCK AT MINESWEEPER!!!
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07/12/02 07:36:02 PM  
Name: damien
Comments: well, it's a start...got 63 new people and 24 oldies updated from may 12th on...however, those of you after jun10 aren't listed but will be next chance...roelof! your 1 is up, but sorin and emmanuel and owen aren't updated yet, but congrats. I didn't get time to update the rankings, but the lists are fine. (87 changes and additions for less than a month...it's still picking up). I'm still impressed sorin... i apologize for having my 11 up even though it's june 20...i was planning on going to july 1st for this update but something's konked out on the server and i can't access the page to delete it, which i should out of fairness. have to quit for today. luck. ancient one's getting tipsy...

07/12/02 04:57:19 PM  
Name: David Barry
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Comments: And congrats Sorin! Both for the 49 and the novel way of expressing your happiness at it.
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07/12/02 04:51:54 PM  
Name: David Barry
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Comments: Sorry Yoni, you're right... I must not to post maths when tired, I must not post maths when tired, I must not....
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07/12/02 03:52:05 PM  
Name: Lance Votroubek
Best expert: 62
Best intermediate: 17
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Amazing, Sorin, Congrats! I like to dream that I'll be there someday, but I seriously doubt that will happen. I can imagine the exhilaration of seeing that 49... damn, that would be nice! Anyway, happy sweeping, all! Lance
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07/12/02 03:44:30 PM  
Name: Matt
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Comments: The Ancient One's rhyme schemes are becoming harder and harder to get a hold on A B B? A B C? Perhaps he has just gotten his drink on I hope I will sub-50 soon Becoming a member of that club myself But I must fend off Marc, Lukasz And the Irish master himself
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07/12/02 02:56:45 PM  
Name: The Ancient One
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Comments: Owen from Ireland - He loves the outdoors He switches style from time to time As he's never content and wants to improve more! He's a guy who likes to be extreme To create a laugh or two it seems Just off the top 7 he lurks Placed no. 8 in the world! Poor old Damien the Canadian The founder of this site Seems bogged down with updates his whole life! He's masterful at Expert Piano and Intermediate too He's world's no.3, can he make it 2?
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07/12/02 02:45:21 PM  
Name: Emmanuel Brunellière
Best expert: 61
Best intermediate: 14
Best beginner: 1
Comments: Just in case you decide to update Damien !
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07/12/02 02:27:45 PM  
Name: damien
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Comments: going to be working on the site this afternoon... had a bad evening last time i played (two days ago)... lost a 49 on the last click and it wasn't even a 50/50 it was child's play, then i was going really fast and the cat hopped onto my lap (where i hold the keyboard) and hit the escape and minimized it; i maximized it and finished in 52, and then i lost stupidly with 80% of the board cleared (just the farthest right 7x15 squares left) at 27 sec, so my whole evening was a screw up (except for another 52 and two 53's). anyways, congrats sorin...total amazement.
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07/12/02 01:13:05 PM  
Name: James
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Comments: Yoni & Benny: Thanks for the explanation, that makes perfect sense. Unfortunetly I will not be able to try it because my dad's comp crashed and, although his company sent him a new one, we have no internet conection because our provider just cut 6000 jobs. (So Damien, if you are using Telus, try not to need their services for a while). (Right now I am on my lunch hour at work.) However, the new comp has Windows XP and I like it very much as there is no timmer bug. My first Intermediate game was a 30, which is 2 sec above my average (i only have 15 sub-30s), and in five minutes of Expert i nearly had a new record (50-50 guess at 82 sec). So things are certainly looking good for the remainder of the summer. Again, thanks to Yoni and Benny. Congrats Sorin, I also thought that Matt would be the next to sub-50. Come to think of it, I still do. James
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07/12/02 12:21:53 PM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: That should be: (99/479)*(98/478)*...*(92/472)
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07/12/02 12:20:37 PM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: Congratulations Sorin and Manu! I caculated 411288.1981 by (99/479)*(98/47*...*(92/472)
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07/12/02 11:50:30 AM  
Name: Dan Cerveny
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Comments: That's fabulous, Sorin. I haven't been able to sub50 in over six months.
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07/12/02 11:13:45 AM  
Name: Owen
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Comments: Damn Sorin Dude - You've re-Overtaken me in the rankings again Punk! Congrats on your magnificent score. I actually thought that Matt would be the one to sub 50 next. A well, that'll have to wait. But now It'll be even harder for you to beat your scores. hehe As for me I played for nearly 2 hours today - the most I've played in one day in a long time - and got a 14, 15, 16, 17, 18x4, 19x3. Have a low ones on video. Unfortunatley I haven't got the cracked camtasia. Anyone know how to get the crack? So Long Owen
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07/12/02 08:44:44 AM  
Name: Sorin
Best expert: 49
Best intermediate: 15
Best beginner: 2
Comments: There's no problem with that Manu. I don't use the so called "double click " texhnique Damien describes in this site. I release the right button and then press it again. It's the way i got use to doing it. Maybe I'll do a video.
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07/12/02 08:08:05 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
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Comments: Yes, I was
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07/12/02 08:05:38 AM  
Name: Roelof Smit
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Comments: Congrats Manu and Sorin! Was I the only one predicting Sorin would be the 5th sub-50er in the world?
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07/12/02 07:55:34 AM  
Name: Manu
Best expert: New...
Best intermediate: 14
Best beginner: 1
Comments: The first sub-70 of the period is a 61 ( video ) ! It took me 2 sec to find the last square ( as often... ). I had missed another sub-60 yesterday... I'm happy to have the best "french score" for all 3 levels : Pascal de Guélis got a "2" and a "15". Quentin Archer got a "62".
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07/12/02 07:20:15 AM  
Name: Manu
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Comments: Sorin, you've subbed-50 ? Whaooo ! Congrats ! But there must be a mistake about the number of clicks you've made, no ?
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07/12/02 07:10:38 AM  
Name: Paul
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Comments: and I get..... One in 378562.298702 Using (99*98*97*96*95*94*93*92)/(479*478*477*476*475*474*473*472). (Once a mine is part of the 8, it can't be used again). It'd be easier to express as factorials, but my calculator didn't like 479! Mind you, it is a good number of years since I've done any probability, I could be mistaken too! I'd just like to point out, too, that the chances in games where people start on edges, or in corners is precisely 0. A 3 in a corner.... about 1 in 116 A 5 on an edge..... about 1 in 2877
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07/12/02 06:16:23 AM  
Name: Sorin
Best expert: YAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Comments: You can count the O's in there... but i'll save you the trouble. There are 49 of them! It was a 132 click game I completed in 169 leftclks and 223 rightclks. Sorry ( no video. I'm getting a new computer soon. Maybe then Camtasia will work better. Next time go and bet Roelof!
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07/12/02 02:54:27 AM  
Name: Benny Benjamin
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Comments: James: As Yoni has said, if you only specify the filename then the program has to be in the same directory as the program. If they are not in the same directory, then you have to enter the full path as Yoni has shown. If all your screenshots are in one directory, then an easy way is to copy the directory path and then you just have to change the filename when you want to check a different screenshot. Matt & Dan: Easy guys , I wanted to make sure that the reading part and associated functionalities are working first and so I focused on them and left the rest still very primitive. I've thought about having a way to browse on my to do list, so if they are no more to add into or fix on the reading functionalities, the rest would be dealing with files and browsing and storing them. And Matt, my program should work with .jpg's, did you have any problem with .jpg's? Garry: If you were referring to my program, it's just a program to read the board pattern so that later they can be saved and profiled, it's not to help you play. I downloaded your program and I'm not sure about what it should do, I tried it on a win3.1 version and nothing happened other than some text messages on the picturebox.
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07/12/02 02:39:48 AM  
Name: David Barry
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Comments: That's 99 to the 8th power.
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07/12/02 02:37:38 AM  
Name: David Barry
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Comments: Yoni, I get 1 in 283192.8445 as the probability of an 8 on first click. (99^ / (479*478*...*472) Either way, you need to have played a lot of minesweeper before it happens.
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07/11/02 10:40:20 AM  
Name: Owen
Best expert: still 52
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Comments: Hi guys. Thanks for your kind sentiments! Since the pressure has been taken off me, I have decided to recount my records and dig into my past. here's what I came up with Expert Records Records made on : Monday 1 Tuesday 3 Wednesday 5 Thursday 0 Friday 2 Saturday 2 Sunday 5 121 From 123 Tuesday 11-4-00 109 Saturday 15-4-00 108 from 109 ? 100 from 108 Friday 14-7-00 96 Sunday 20-8-00 91 Wednesday 23-8-00 87 Saturday 26-8-00 83 Tuesday 7-11-00 82 Wednesday 7-3-01 81 ? 79 ? 77 ? 76 ? 71 Sunday 8-4-01 69 Sunday 15-4-01 66 Wednesday 27-6-01 65 Sunday 12-8-01 63 Wednesday 17-10-01 62 Tuesday 11-12-01 61 Sunday 17-2-02 59 Friday 29-3-02 57 Wednesday 12-6-02 52 Monday 8-7-02 Intermediate Records Records made on : Monday 0 Tuesday 1 Wednesday 1 Thursday 1 Friday 2 Saturday 0 Sunday 1 28 ? 27 ? 24 from 27 Friday 14-7-00 20 Intermediate Tuesday 15-8-00 19 ?-2-01 18 Sunday 22-4-01 17 Friday 15-6-01 16 Thursday 30-8-01 12 Wednesday 12-9-01 Beginner Records 3 Monday 24-4-00 2 Friday 2-3-01 This very day last year my records stood at 2-17-69. Since then I've shaved off 22 seconds off my total and went from approximately 50th in the worldto 7th in the world. I will soon tally my amount of sub 20s. Matt, I rather liked your little piece about the Ancient One. David, Sorry - I never thought I would overtake you! hehe
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07/11/02 08:23:36 AM  
Name: Marc Schouten (in Trondheim, this time)
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Comments: Nice poems, O Ancient One
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07/11/02 06:07:08 AM  
Name: Yoni Roll
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Comments: If my calculation is correct then the chance to get a 8 on the first click is 1 to 411288. That is extremely low! James, you have to put the picture files in the program's directory or write in the filename box a full path (for example: C:\pictures\my minesweeper pics\picname.gif)
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07/11/02 05:30:37 AM  
Name: Enric Herrero
Best expert:
Best intermediate: 27 => 26
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Comments: I've just improved my int record !!! Damien, I'm not on the lists, I hope I'm one of the other 50 people... when will you update them?
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07/11/02 12:38:55 AM  
Name: Gary
Best expert: 168
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Comments: I wrote a program simular to "Play Minesweeper", "MineSweepHelper", which does simular thing with your program. But it put a step forward, it analysis also the background sequence. (it work only with Winmine 3.1) The executable and the source code are avaialbe for download at http://home.ust.hk/~ma_hty/html_stuff/MineSweepHelper.exe and http://home.ust.hk/~ma_hty/html_stuff/MineSweepHelper.zip respectively.
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07/10/02 10:44:08 PM  
Name: james
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Comments: E-mail me or post it for other srew-ups who are too embarased to admit their shortcomings. However, I have the sneaking suspicion that I am the only one. James
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07/10/02 10:38:11 PM  
Name: james
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Comments: I instaled the program with no problem, which is quite amazing considering my lack of computer knowledge. However, now when I enter a screenshot file name it always says: "Cannot find file:.....". I do save my screenshots as .bmp files, and even renamed one to match Benny's example, but still the same measage. What am I doing wrong? Perhaps I have to put the files in a certain place? or perhaps they are not he correct type of files? It is obviously just me because the program seems to have worked well for everyone else. HELP! James
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