Author: Pete Galati
Date: 18:59:34 01/03/01
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On January 03, 2001 at 17:37:55, Roy Eassa wrote: >On January 03, 2001 at 17:25:22, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: > >>On January 03, 2001 at 16:53:57, Roy Eassa wrote: >> >>>The Compaq iPaq, at over 200 MHz and 32MB RAM, yet weighing 6 oz., sure >>>looks like a winner. (Stereo sound, 320x240 resolution vs. Palm's 160x160, 4096 >>>colors, and a lot more, for like $500 US.) >> >>Yes, a marvelous machine.Please buy it just to tell us how many Windows for >>Pocket-PC crashes you have in a day! >> >>> >>>Are there ANY strong chess programs for the PocketPC platform? If not, maybe >>>it's time for one of you top-notch PC Chess programmers to team with (or hire) a >>>WinCE expert to get yours ported and OWN the market! >>> >>>(I'd buy the device and your program!) >> >>Please don't get upset with my post. If you want a mobile chess machine, buy a >>Palm (or a Visor) and Chess Genius for Palm. It's all that. Simple and >>efective;and if you are not a chess master, most probably Genius for Palm will >>defeat you or just give you a tremendous opposition. > > >I got a Visor for my birthday last month, and bought Genius 1.2 and like it >(it's a fine opponent but a pretty weak analyst). I'm just wondering what could >be done with all that extra speed (206 MHz versus 33 MHz) and RAM (32 vs. 8 MB). > I've heard that the code base for Genius 1.2 is a 1987 non-hashtable app. >Something a lot more modern could be ported to the PocketPC, I'd think. > >I also want to use the device as an MP3 player without buying a dedicated $250 >add-on (like you can for the Visor), plus would like the voice recorder, Excel, >web browser, etc., all of which come standard with the iPaq. And, as a >long-time Windows developer, I might find it easier to program for the iPaq >(although I already have a full time job so probably wouldn't make the time >anyway). > >By the way, I generally hate Windows and had heard awful things about earlier >versions of WinCE. But I've heard pretty good things about the latest >PocketPCs. > >And, of course, I lust for the speed/resolution/sound quality/features my Visor >lacks. What OS is on the iPaq? Pete
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