Author: Ratko V Tomic
Date: 21:12:03 10/10/00
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> On the REBEL 11 CD you have: > * Rebel Century 3.0 (DOS) > * Chess Tiger 13.0 (Windows) > * Gambit Tiger 1.0 (Windows) > * Rebel as an analysis engine for Chess Tiger and Gambit Tiger (Windows) > > This is the first time ever a native Windows Rebel engine is released. Now that the hard part of the work in porting Rebel engine to Win32 is done, why not postpone the release a month or so and make it play a real game as Win32 app, instead of just using it for analysis? Switching to the stand-alone DOS is a time consuming, sometimes flakey process under Win32 (the system sometimes won't boot back to Windows), while running it in a DOS box inside Windows, with Windows using up half the RAM and wasting CPU cycles on virtualizing all the hardware of the DOS box, is not the quite the same thing (to say nothing of the low res DOS graphics and DOS mouse support; once you get spoiled with CB/Fritz UI, it's hard to go back and play in DOS mode any more). Well, I'll get it anyway, however you and Ed finally release it, but given a choice, I would still rather wait a month or two for the full RC 3 engine running as native Win32 app. Other than Hiarcs 7.32, I liked the Rebel's (10b) playing style the best. And from the reviews here, the Gambit Tiger sounds it will turn out into an interesting opponent, as well. BTW are the CT & GT engines native Win32 bit apps or 16-bit Windows apps with some extender?
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