Author: Lex Loep
Date: 01:38:06 12/17/00
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On December 16, 2000 at 11:36:27, Christophe Theron wrote: >On December 15, 2000 at 19:42:53, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>>When there is a significant market for Linux programs, there will be a version >>>of Chess Tiger for Linux very quickly. Tiger is written in C and my daily >>>compiler is the GnuC, so I expect the port to be easy and quickly done. >>> >>>I still have to figure out how I can copy-protect my program for Linux, and how >>>much Linux users are ready to pay (if they are ready to pay). >>> >>> >>> >>> Christophe >> >>I would pay definately for the Linux version of Chess Tiger. That would be very >>interesting... Although, I would love to still have an autoplayer interface for >>Linux... ChessPartner is very good.. I wonder if it could be ported as well. > > > >I think Lex relies heavily on the MFC, so it would not be very easy. > >But only him can tell. > >Of course, once the engine is ported, people will ask for the GUI, the >autoplaying features, and so on... > >So we end up doing the same work twice... It must really be worth it! > > I have been investigating this, the port of the ChessPartner GUI to linux is a massive task, in the end I may sell a couple of hundreds more so I decided not to port to linux. I also asked somebody to check if ChessPartner works under WINE, news is it almost works, WINE is still missing some API's that are used by CP, you may try to get in touch with the WINE developers. Lex > > >>Also Christophe, have you been to the forum lately? >> >>I posted some questions, no answer as of yet. > > > >I check the forum once per week. I don't have enough time to watch it every day. > > > > Christophe
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