Tim Mann has been responsible for XBoard versions 1.3 and beyond, and for WinBoard, a port of XBoard to Microsoft Win32 (Windows NT and Windows 95).
Mark Williams contributed the initial (WinBoard-only) implementation of many new features added to both XBoard and WinBoard in version 4.1.0, including copy/paste, premove, icsAlarm, autoFlipView, training mode, auto raise, and blindfold. Ben Nye contributed X copy/paste code for XBoard.
Hugh Fisher added animated piece movement to XBoard, and Henrik Gram
(henrikg@funcom.com) added it to WinBoard. Frank McIngvale added
click/click moving, the Analysis modes, piece flashing, ZIICS import,
and ICS text colorization to XBoard. Jochen Wiedmann ported XBoard to
the Amiga, creating AmyBoard, and converted the documentation to
texinfo. Elmar Bartel contributed the new piece bitmaps introduced in
version 3.2. John Chanak contributed the initial implementation of
ICS mode. The color scheme and the old 80x80 piece bitmaps were taken
from Wayne Christopher's XChess program.
Chris Sears and Dan Sears wrote the original XBoard. They were responsible for versions 1.0 through 1.2.
Evan Welsh wrote CMail. Patrick Surry helped in designing,
testing, and documenting CMail.
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