Getting castro back

Ever since the update, we haven't had Casto playing on the server. I'm just wondering when and if it will return--it would be nice to have such a tricky opponent available. wanderer_c is still active, so at least someone has a set of scripts for Havannah bots.

If there's scripting help needed, I might be able to participate.

I did manage to get castro playing again with the new interface, but I don't think it accepts invitations quite yet. The main reason it hasn't been playing though is just that I haven't had a stable computer in a while. It's not so nice for me to constantly worry about restarting castro, nor for you to just have it disappear and forfeit games every time I go on vacaton (which is what happened to the last set of games). I just built a new computer that seems to finally be stable, so I may be able to start it up soon.

That said, Castro is open source: https://github.com/tewalds/castro or my newer version that plays many games: https://github.com/tewalds/morat . I run it on linux, but it probably works on osx and you could probably fix it to run on windows. If you do this, send me a patch. You'll want a copy of HavannahGui, which seems to not be available at http://mgame99.funpic.de/havannah.php anymore, but you can download from here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/n7pqwl5gdov34c5/AAA8bluEC_ugiDJ9KuZEGkzda/HGui-0.6.4_%282009-02-22%29.zip?dl=0 .

I just manually accepted a few games. Hopefully I don't surprise the person that had requested probably months ago. If you want to play, put in some invites and I'll se if I can get it to accept automatically, or just manually.

Awesome!