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Subject: Re: Crafty 18.01 binaries for Macintosh PPC

Author: William Bryant

Date: 09:42:48 01/14/01

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On January 13, 2001 at 22:57:11, Will Singleton wrote:

>On January 13, 2001 at 22:11:35, William Bryant wrote:
>
>>Crafty 18.01 binaries for Macintosh have been sent to Bob by email and
>>should appear on his ftp machine soon.
>>
>>William
>>wbryant@ix.netcom.com
>
>I probably have asked before, but... have you got smp working for Os X?  If not,
>is there any form of mp?
>
>Will

That is an excellent question.

I do not have access to a SMP machine, and I am running OS 8.6 not 9.0.4 (so I'm
not going to try OS X beta).  Therefore, I have not tried to compile in SMP mode
to see if the SMP library stuff is compatible with the MacOS X implementation of
SMP.  It should be, but you never know.  If you want to try it, contact me and
I'll tell you the minor pitfalls to get Crafty to compile.

Of note, creating an OS X binary will be as easily as recompiling using the OS X
library stuff instead of the older Mac OS stuff.  It will then require Carbon
lib 1.0.4 to run on a non-OS X machines.  Therefore, I haven't compiled it for
OS X, yet.

Both Screamer and Crafty should easily become OS X applications when the need
arises.

What I really need (read want) now is a new computer.  I am hoping the PPC chip
will break the 500mhz barrier, so I have no plans to purchase one soon.
Although, the 500mhz G3 laptops are getting awful cheep relatively speeking.

Screamer now has PGN export support than imports seamlessly into ExaChess.  What
it needs is pondering and server support.  Yes, it is still at the top of my
list to do.  But birthdays (4 then 2 year so age), and especially work sap away
all my free time so it is, as always, a work in progress.

William
wbryant@ix.netcom.com



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