Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 12:45:19 07/04/01
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On July 04, 2001 at 11:28:25, Robert Dery wrote:
>Here's a 30-minute game I played between ChessTiger for Palm Beta5 against
>Fritz1, both using Permanent Brain.
Actually Chess Tiger for Palm beta 5 has no permanent brain.
> CT played on my PalmIII O.S.3 overclocked to
>22mh. Fritz1 played on a 286 PC (don't laugh) that I literally saved from the
>scrapheap. The 286 runs, according to the boot-up sequence, at 10 mh and has 1MB
>of Ram. Can any computer archaeologists tell me whether this is a fair contest?
The Palm has the fastest processor of the two.
From the "MIPS" speed test I see:
286 12MHz -> MIPS index = 0.7
DragonBall EZ 16.58MHz -> MIPS index = 1.8
So:
286 10MHz -> index=0.583
DBall 22MHz -> index=2.39
The Palm is 4.10 times faster than the 286.
So you should give Chess Tiger for Palm 30 minutes for the game, and 2 hours to
Fritz1 on 286.
>What other chess programs are likely to run on such specs? The monitor is a
>Hercules Monochrome (are you lot laughing again?), so I couldn't run ChessMaster
>2100
>on it, I suppose because it requires a better video card. I would,however, like
>to run other programs if possible. Any ideas, folks?
Maybe Psion or Cyrus would run on it. Then can be downloaded for free on the
Net. These two are programs from Richard Lang, probably close to the version of
ChessGenius that has been ported to the Palm.
You could also try to find an old VGA card (one with an ISA connector) and plug
it into the 286 instead of the Hercules card. Unless the Hercules card is
actually built on the motherboard...
If you plug a VGA card, you can connect the 286 to your PC color monitor.
Christophe
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