Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 03:11:57 10/11/00
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On October 11, 2000 at 02:04:08, Christophe Theron wrote: >On October 11, 2000 at 00:12:03, Ratko V Tomic wrote: > >>> 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). > > > >No, this argument does not work: with a dedicated Windows engine like >Rebel-Tiger or Fritz, you also have Windows taking a lot of RAM and stealing CPU >cycles. > >The ONLY problem of being a DOS program is related to GUI issues, not playing >strength. > That assumes that the user is going into dos-mode rather then using a dos window in the windows GUI. Did you guys consider that as far as I know, there isn't a dos mode in Windows ME? How about running under win2k? Again, a dos window correct? Shame about the Rebel Centrury running as a dos program, but I may still pick up the package due to the tiger programs. JW
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