Author: Koundinya Veluri
Date: 12:16:10 11/12/01
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On November 11, 2001 at 23:29:35, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >My questions: > >1) What's your impression of the Unix market for Chess? >(UnixWare/SCO/AIX/IRIX/Solaris/NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/HP-UX/Digital-Unix) Not good. >Would you consider a port of your program for Unix? If I ever make a linux port, I might try a unix one too just to see how many downloads it gets. > >2) What's your impression of the Linux market for Chess? >Would you consider a port of your program for Linux? A linux port wouldn't hurt. I don't think I would port the GUI as that will probably be a waste of time, but I will consider a port of the command line version to linux, probably a long time from now though. > >3) What do you think about the AMD x Intel struggle? Intel finally has competition (has had for a while) and hopefully that'll keep the Intel chip's prices down, as I am a fan of Intel. I never tried AMD CPU's before but I was always happy with the Intel CPU whenever I bought a new one, even with my current P4. So until I get disappointed with a new Intel CPU, until Intel's prices go way up, or until AMD CPU's vastly outperform Intel's latest CPU's, I'm probably going to stick with Intel. > >4) Would you consider optimizing the code to run your program using an Alpha >processor? Definitely not. A few years from now, if i'm still doing chess programming, I might consider optimizing for the new 64-bit cpus like itanium or hammer. > >5) Do you agree with Microsoft's idea of "Software Activation" ? Would it be >aplicable to the Unix / Linux World ? The software activation is a pain. I hope that it's not applied to other operating systems. Linux is free so it probably would not make sense there. > >6) What's your impression about 3D graphics and Chess? What about the multimedia >resources? Aren't both 3d and multimedia neglected nowadays? Fritz has some music and speech which is good, but I think making a 3D board would be a waste of time. A 3D board on the screen is not at all the same as an actual chess board with 3D pieces. A 3D board on the screen is very annoying. I would prefer an actual chess board but for a program, a 2D board is good enough. I don't mind seeing some neat graphics on the pieces though. > >A. Ponti Regards, Koundinya
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