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Subject: Re: Another question to Christophe Théron.

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:32:26 07/16/01

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Well, there are far more Mac users than Palm users.  Plus, I just read that
fewer than 1% of all Palm users have EVER loaded 3rd-party software onto their
Palm devices!

There are programmers who specialize in porting software between Mac & Windows.
I imagine it's a much easier job than creating the Palm version, which you did
so nicely.  It's also undoubtedly a much bigger market, with no significant
competition at the high end (unless you count Chessmaster 6000).

(PS: I have been known to port software between Mac & Windows myself, although
it's always been programs that I myself have written.)


On July 16, 2001 at 13:36:52, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 16, 2001 at 10:49:28, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>well since your here what about an engine for all flavors of unix ie, linux,
>>freebsd, mac x. Too run in xboard. maybe added to rebel so we have to buy cd.
>
>
>
>I'm sorry but at this time Linux and Mac do not promise any serious income, so I
>prefer focusing on Windows, PalmOS and PocketPC. It's quite an investment to
>port the engine to a new OS (even if the engine is written in portable C), so I
>cannot decide to do it without a strong enough reason.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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