Author: William Kerr
Date: 09:44:12 02/01/00
Go up one level in this thread
On February 01, 2000 at 12:22:02, Mike Carter wrote: >I started writing a Visual Basic chess program but have decided to migrate to >C++. Checking out Microsoft compilers, the Enterprise version of 6.0 seems to >be overkill (and at $1300 out of price range!). Microsoft's Standard version of >C++ 6.0 is about $100 and the Professional version is $550. Assuming I'm using >this to write chess code exclusively, is the extra $450 justified to move up to >Professional? Or is another company (e.g. Borland) a better choice/value? (If >it matters, I have a Pentium II 400 MHz with 128Mb RAM and would eventually like >to port the program to WinBoard). Many thanks in advance for your opinion! > >Mike Carter (MrMike on ICC) >mcarter@tdi.net Look in Babbages or Electronic Boutique for in a bright yellow box called something like "Learn Visual C++ Programming" which includes the learning edition of MS VC++ 6.0. Its put out by Sams publishing I believe. It costs around $39. It does not have all the features of the standard edition but until you get deep into fancy GUI programming you probabily wont miss anything. It does allow you to do GUI programming however. Bill
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.