Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:01:36 05/07/01
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On May 07, 2001 at 10:26:14, Gordon Rattray wrote:
>On May 06, 2001 at 18:49:36, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On May 06, 2001 at 16:57:45, Torstein Hall wrote:
>>
>>>I just saw that ChessTiger for Palm is comming out. You get a free text based
>>>version. It will later come in a comersial version with its own graphical user
>>>interface. As a user of a Cassiopeia Pocket PC, I just envy you Palm owners your
>>>Chess Tiger, even if you have to live with a somewhat suboptimal pocket
>>>solution!
>>
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>>
>>The Palm, a suboptimal solution????
>>
>>Obviously you have never tried it. It's cheap, it's fast, it's robust, has a
>>large autonomy, can be overclocked, does everything you need, and you find
>>thousands of programs for it.
>>
>>As far as I know, almost all owners of Palms are happy with it. And a large
>>percentage of owners of WinCE or PocketPC computers are not happy with it.
>>
>>Anyway, there will be a PocketPC version of Chess Tiger for Palm. I will come
>>after the graphical Palm version.
>
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>
>Excellent. I'm a PocketPC owner, and a happy one at that. ;-) Are you porting
>only Chess Tiger to PDAs, or Gambit Tiger too? One way or another, this is
>great news. Thanks.
Gambit Tiger is going to be ported as well. In the Palm commercial version
you'll be able to switch between Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger easily with a
checkbox.
>p.s. my Compaq Ipaq has 64Mb RAM, will I be able to use some 4-piece endgame
>TBs? ;-) I bet all the Palm owners are thinking, "don't worry, your batteries
>won't last long enough to see the endgame..." ;-)
You can buy the extra battery pack for PocketPC. Only 15Kg, straps to carry it
on your back are provided, and you get an incredible 2 hours operating time with
it. :)
Christophe
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