Author: Matt Taylor
Date: 11:08:00 02/14/03
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On February 13, 2003 at 09:49:39, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: >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 ? The assembly code will assemble as-is for a 32-bit environment. It will not be particularly fast or efficient, but it doesn't need any conversion. The only stuff that would need conversion are graphics routines and the like. >>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. If it runs fine in Windows 2000, it will run fine in Windows XP. You may have to fiddle with it, but I've yet to find a program that breaks my claim. >>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 -Matt
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