Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:10:07 02/14/01
Go up one level in this thread
On February 14, 2001 at 16:23:15, Ian Osgood wrote:
>On February 12, 2001 at 17:03:45, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On February 10, 2001 at 19:55:03, Ian Osgood wrote:
>>
>>>On February 09, 2001 at 08:09:09, Paul De Man wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hello there somewhere on earth,
>>>>
>>>>Can somebody help me to find THE program that will make my IPAQ smile with a
>>>>chess program? Where can I find it? Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>Paul, Brussels.
>>>
>>>Boy, have you come to the right place! I've been testing PalmChess (the best
>>>available, www.synctel.com) on my new 206MHz iPAQ against ChessGenius on my
>>>20MHz PalmIIIe. Amazingly, ChessGenius has a slight edge at equal time
>>>controls! (My test games are available upon request.)
>>
>>
>>Ouch! Do you realize what difference in playing strength it means, if the
>>programs were run on equal platform?
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Indeed. I'll be very curious to see whether ChessGenius gets a speedup when
>PalmOS moves to faster non-68k processors (StrongARM).
But if PalmOS moves to StrongARM, will ChessGenius specific 68K code still work?
Do you have informations about a 68K simulator for future PalmOS, and will it be
as fast as a standard DragonBall?
>In the meantime, it's a crying shame that no one is porting their professional
>Windows programs to WindowsCE. MFC and Win32 code should port painlessly, once
>you reconfigure your program to run in a smaller memory footprint (i.e. smaller
>book, smaller/optional hashtables, minimal/optional endgame tablebases).
Painlessly? Obviously you have read too much of Microsoft propaganda! :)
And what about chess programs written in x86 assembly?
Christophe
>I'm going to give it a go in March, porting either Crafty, gnuchess, Phalanx,
>The Crazy Bishop, or Arasan.
>
>Ian
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.