Author: Tom Likens
Date: 08:28:27 03/25/04
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On March 25, 2004 at 01:35:55, Christophe Theron wrote:
>On March 23, 2004 at 13:58:12, Vasik Rajlich wrote:
>
>>On March 23, 2004 at 07:16:08, Joshua Shriver wrote:
>>
>>>I agree with the other poster. I would just stick with scid and xboard or
>>>eboard.
>>>
>>>You mentioned you're running Windows under and emulator, which one? Reason I ask
>>>limits what can be done to solve the problem.
>>>
>>>Here are some possible options and comments:
>>>
>>>Emulation is very slow and is cpu intensive so it's going to hurt the engines
>>>strength. Emulation also means that whatever is running the OS is contained in a
>>>sandbox, meaning that there are no conventional outside connection (file viewing
>>>etc). Though there are some ways around that.
>
>
>
>Well you seem to be quite misinformed.
>
>The Windows emulators for Linux are almost as fast as a real Windows box, and
>offer many ways to exchange files and networking capabilities.
>
>Win4lin runs a Windows almost AS FAST as a real box. It can use the native Linux
>file system. It offers network sharing (if your Linux is connected to a network,
>Win4lin is also, automatically).
>
>VMware runs Windows slightly slower than Win4lin, but it is still very fast (did
>you think that the x86 instructions where interpreted or what?). It offers
>network sharing to access the Linux filesystem or any external network. It's
>very good. I can run simultaneously a Windows 98 and a Windows XP on my Linux
>box! I can test my applications for several versions of Windows on a single
>computer without rebooting!
>
>So to sum it up, I recommend Win4Lin and VMware. I would not recommend Wine, or
>just for a few applications (most of the stuff I have tried with Wine did not
>work). I do not know about Bochs, but I have heard that it does a complete
>hardware emulation, and that is supposed to be indeed very slow. But it can
>emulate a PC on a Mac!
>
>
>
> Christophe
I can second this. I use Win4Lin all the time and it works fine (some
applications run *faster* than their native speeds). Arena runs under it
as well as Fritz and a multitude of other programs (ChessMaster does
*not* run under it). One caveat though, you will need a legal copy of
Windows 95, 98 or ME to install before you can use it.
--tom
P.S. Christophe, how is the Chess Tiger version for Linux coming along?
*And* I would still be willing to pay for it!!
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