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Subject: Re: 2nd take : appeal to programmers for Palm chess engines

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 12:47:22 11/01/00

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On November 01, 2000 at 03:19:35, Martin Grabriel wrote:

how to protect for a palm version, and
i don't know a single dude owning a palm except myself, so
i doubt heavily on it ever being a commercial success.

apart from that, the cross compilers for the palm pc's are pathetic
to use a real polite word for them. For example the cross compiler
for philips nino palm pc's (75 Mhz 32 register mips processor inside!)
only runs windows NT 4.0 sp3,

but it doesn't run if you have a higher servicepack. So with sp5 which
i have currently installed, you can shake it.

not to mention win98,win95 or NT2000.

So to use a bit of an understatement, the support is real bad and
it's working even worse.

If you plan to look for a nino, note that NINOs are not
buyable at all anymore in Europe. It's amazing that i
managed to get one.

>I think more than half a year ago, I have appealed in this forum for programmers
>among you to produce a Palm version of your program, commercial or otherwise.
>This is my 2nd appeal.

>"Please..."

Are you prepared to pay for a version that runs on a stupid small palmpc?
note that chessprograms are about the only thing that might be a good
idea to run on palms, but if you invest time and money to get a COMMERCIAL
looking interface to work at it, then you sure do a lot of effort, and
afterwards your bankrupt.

>I think Chess Genius 1.2 is very successful and is capable of expert strength,
>enough to challenge mortals like us. Its save and load functions, although
>primitive is extremely useful.
>There are more than 60 free winboard engines floating around, can't just one
>have a Palm version? Pocket Chess and ChromaGames (Chess) are the other 2 other
>playable programs...but there is always room for more....



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