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Subject: Re: Chess Tiger for Palm, free text mode version available

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 17:54:35 05/19/01

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On May 19, 2001 at 14:54:37, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On May 19, 2001 at 14:38:04, Will Singleton wrote:
>
>>On May 19, 2001 at 04:36:51, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>The FREE TEXT MODE version of Chess Tiger 14.1 for Palm is now available at
>>>www.chesstiger.com
>>>
>>>Complains about the lack of a graphic chessboard will be ignored! :)
>>>
>>>Feedback (especially if it is positive) is welcome.
>>>
>>>Enjoy! :)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>
>>Thanks, very cool.  It's been a lot of fun playing with CT for Palm.  The
>>text-mode interface works really well.  And I actually read the manual (unusual
>>for me), and tested the commands.  Nice epd and pgn handling.
>>
>>On my Visor Prism (33mhz), I get 337 nps.  Does that sound right?  Seems a tad
>>lower than I would have expected.
>
>
>I get 414 NPS on my Palm IIIx. OK, I have overclocked it to 26MHz (from 16) and
>removed the wait-states.
>
>You definitely need to go to PalmGear and get AfterBurner 3.0.
>
>With this tool your Palm will be able to compute more than 1000 NPS. You can
>expect a 100 points elo increase at least.
>
>I have heard that you can overclock the Visor Prism up to 45MHz without any wait
>state (and activate other optimizations as well).
>
>
>
>
>
>>Questions:  I assume in the final version you will be able to switch to another
>>application, then switch back to CT without restarting.
>
>
>Without restarting? What do you mean?
>
>Normally when you come back to Chess Tiger the last position and game is
>automatically restored. Do you mean it does not work on your Palm???
>
>

Sorry, I didn't look closely.  Since it repeats the boilerplate, I guess I
figured it was restarting.  Well, good, now I don't have to use the emulator to
play vs. Genius.

I notice the time display, during a game, only decrements the program's clock,
not the opponent.  Bug or what?

Will



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