Author: Paul
Date: 09:51:47 05/07/01
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On May 07, 2001 at 12:01:36, Christophe Theron wrote: >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! >>> >>> >>> >>>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. >> >>[snip] >> >>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 I don't know the Ipaq, but if it's possible to create a RAM drive maybe you could have *all* 3&4 piece egtb's on there, since they're only 29.6 MB all together :) Paul
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