Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 13:36:59 07/16/01
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On July 16, 2001 at 15:32:26, Roy Eassa wrote:
>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!
I think you are badly informed. What are your sources for this?
Christophe
>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.
>>
>>
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>>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.
>>
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>>
>> Christophe
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