Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 14:37:20 07/09/04
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On July 09, 2004 at 05:41:54, Tord Romstad wrote: >On July 08, 2004 at 18:15:16, Joshua Shriver wrote: > >> >> >> >>> >>>>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. >>> >>>And don't forget Fruit! >>> >>>A good chess GUI for Mac OS is still missing, though. >>> >>>Tord >> >>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 http://www.libsdl.org/index.php :) It's a 2d/3d graphics, sound, network library. It's relatively easy to use, and extremely portable. Checkout that website, as I said earlier it's even ported to Dreamcast. Only changing 1 line of code I was able to port my app to Win, Linux and OS X. Using gcc. If you want/need to do some intensive 3d coding, you can also write OpenGL code withing SDL and just use SDL for sound, network, game controllers etc. Sincerely, Joshua Shriver
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