Forum Archive : Snowie

Snowie vs. Jellyfish From:   Mark Driver Address:   mdriver@mail.usyd.edu.au Date:   1 April 2001 Subject:   Re: Student vs. Tutor Forum:   rec.games.backgammon Google:   9a6cja$j7g$1@spacebar.ucc.usyd.edu.au > I am just wondering if there is a benefit one has over the other. > Jellyfish Tutor or Snowie Student... Both are $100 and I am just not sure > if one is better that the other... Some points you might want to consider: Both play a very strong game. Snowie has better graphics but a smaller playing area than Jellyfish. Playing a game on Jellyfish involves far less moving of the cursor and clicking than on Snowie. In my opinion the functionality of the Jellyfish edit position function is better than that of Snowie. Perhaps the most important factor to consider is whether you will eventually wish to upgrade. Both can be upgraded to the full bells and whistles versions, but an upgrade to full spec Jellyfish is cheaper than the upgrade to Snowie Pro. However, Snowie Pro has far more functionality than Jellyfish Evaluator - you get what you pay for with the full spec versions.   Did you find the information in this article useful?           Do you have any comments you'd like to add?

 

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Announcement  (Olivier Egger, Apr 1998) 

Checker-play-according-to-score bug  (Peter Schneider+, June 2001) 

Error rates  (Gregg Cattanach, Oct 2000) 

Hints and questions  (Achim Müller+, Aug 1998) 

Luck calculation  (Gregg Cattanach+, Dec 1999) 

Questions and answers  (David Montgomery, Dec 1998) 

Running in low priority  (lmfback+, Oct 2004) 

Snowie 4.0  (SnowieGroup Info, Oct 2002) 

Snowie 4.3 update  (Gregg Cattanach, July 2005) 

Snowie cube evaluation  (Kit Woolsey, Sept 2007) 

Snowie vs GNU  (Stanley E. Richards+, Oct 2005) 

Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Mark Driver, Apr 2001) 

Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Daniel Murphy, Oct 2000) 

Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Gregg Cattanach+, Sept 2000) 

Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Wayne Crookes, Jan 1999) 

Snowie vs. Jellyfish  (Kenneth M. Arnold+, May 1998) 

Terminology  (Alexander Nitschke, Sept 1998) 

Using rollouts  (Michael J. Zehr+, Oct 1998) 

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