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Subject: Re: Virtual PC, MaC OS, and chess programs

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 02:41:54 07/09/04

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On July 08, 2004 at 18:15:16, Joshua Shriver wrote:

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>>>Plead and beg Mark Uniacke and Christophe Theron to port Hiarcs and Tiger to OSX
>>>to join Crafty, Ruffian and Deep Sjeng. Oh, and there's Gothmog.
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>>And don't forget Fruit!
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>>A good chess GUI for Mac OS is still missing, though.
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>>Tord
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>Still working on it ;)

So am I, in fact!  :-)

Progress is very slow, though.  I work on too many other projects at the
same time.

>I've been coding a SDL-based Chess GUI (using OS X as my dev machine).
>Since it's SDL based it will be able to run on Windows, Mac, Linux, FreeBSD,
>heck even Dreamcast.

I've never heard of SDL before.  What is it?

>Right now it's kinda pre-alpha. It can display the graphics but I haven't added
>support for chess engines, planning on using xboard 1 and 2, perhaps UCI
>eventually.

I'm planning UCI first, but I will probably add xboard 2 some time later.

>Whenever I get it done I'll post it here.

Cool!

Tord




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