Delfi 5.0 UCI?

[Blackbirdx61]

I've been trying to get this engine to work in UCI mode in my Crafty Interface; it works fine Winboard mode but I want to be able to use my .bin library.
Anyhow, The engine just does not seem to work at all as a UCI engine; and when I input the uci command in the console program I get a null output result.

Has UCI support been removed from the Delfi series?

Does anyone have an old command list they could share for testing purposes.

I did try the 5.4 Engine but my processor does not seem to have the required extensions and it just does not work at all.

Ty for your time and help BB.

[H.G.Muller]

I don't know anything about the Crafty GUI. But I have seen other engines that worked perfectly fine in a GUI, but appeared totally dead when running them from the command line. It seems to have to do something with the Windows API not being device independent, but making a distinction between pipes and real keyboards.

I assume you want to use it under Polyglot (to handle the bin book). So perhaps you should first try to run Polyglot from the command line with this engine, using the command

polyglot -noini -ec delfi.exe -ed DELFIFOLDER

and see how it reacts to

xboard
protover 2

If the engine responded to the 'uci' command with options, you should see these options relayed as WinBoard options.

Or use UCI2WB instead of Polyglot with the command

uci2wb debug delfi.exe DELFIFOLDER

(and then give the same command), as that also gives a litteral transcript of everything the engine said.

[Blackbirdx61]

Sorry for the late reply, just got back to this thread tonight. TY will have a good look at this, BB.