Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 06:49:39 02/13/03
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On February 13, 2003 at 03:59:49, Harald Faber wrote: >On February 13, 2003 at 03:09:32, Ed Schröder wrote: > >>Somebody noticed me on this: >> >>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/60293.htm >> >>It's seems to work with VMware that emulates an older OS, the costs of the >>emulation: a 5-10% speed loss. >> >>http://www.vmware.com/products/desktop/ws_features.html >> >>Ed > > >Ed, >is converting Rebel to at least a Winboard or even better UCI engine so much >harrassment that you avoid it like pest and cholera? I can't believe it. It's quite obvious that Ed had encountered some unexpected problems when attempting to convert his engine code to win32. AFAIK, it's a lot of assembler stuff in revel; i could imagine this make things tedious, not just a recompilation as in case of a C program. In order to support the winboard or the uci protocol, this conversion is unavoidable too. So, why do you think that's less work in this case ? >And IIRC you already had a former Rebel engine working as analysis engine under >ChessPartner, can the step to full Winboard/UCI support be that hard that you >are not willing (I am sure you are capable) to take this final step? >And what about your promise to release a Windows version? This leaves some >bitter taste - although your free Rebel 12 is a perl - because Rebel may run >under some Windows versions but is not Windows application. DOS is dead - since >ages! There are only a few hardliners who even accept special boot to run Rebel >in DOS (mode). That's not necessary because it runs fine under win-95, win-98, win2000, either using a dos box or via icon and pif-file. > >Ed, I am sure that MANY others would also honor a Windows-/Winboard-/UCI-Rebel - >at least engine - much more than another beta-x.eng. > >Don't you want to see this as final competition? ;-) I'm sure, Ed just wanted to release a free dos engine. And I do appreciate a lot. Thx, Ed. Uli
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