Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 03:17:51 10/11/00
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On October 11, 2000 at 06:11:57, Jason Williamson wrote: >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 Rebel Century runs in a DOS window too. I have no problems at all running Century under W98, ME and W2000, with anything up to 200MB hashtables on my 256MB machines. Enrique
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