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Subject: Re: CT for Palm TigerMark (Christophe)

Author: Rafael Vasquez

Date: 02:19:41 12/27/01

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On December 27, 2001 at 00:29:31, Christophe Theron wrote:

Ok Christophe,
I'm able to set my m505 to 1.35, but then the p/s for the test below falls to
475. Can we take the Nps as a measure of Tiger's Speed?

>>If I set the time level to one hour per game
>>and play 1.Na3 (Christophe,watchout with Nemeth's anticomputer opening)
>>ChessTiger will play 1...,d5 "P8 +0.36 d5 d4 e6 e3 a6 Nb1 Bb4+ Bd2 Nc6 Bxb4 Nxb4
>>93.77s 54311 pos 579 p/s Move2"
>>Tested on a Palm M505.
>>
>
>
>Yeah I noticed your name in my sales report recently.
>
>I knew I would very quickly hear about you again! :)
>
>Your TigerMark looks too high. When you overclock too much a Palm, it can
>actually run slower, and that could well be the case with yours (even if the
>TigerMark looks stellar).
>
>Do the following:
>
>1) use a REAL clock to see if Chess Tiger's clock runs at the right pace.
>2) if it does not run at the right pace, you MUST decrease the "speed" of your
>Palm with AferBurner. Actually you do not make it slower by doing this!
>3) repeat 1 and 2 until Chess Tiger's clock is following your REAL clock. When
>it is the case, you have reached the REAL fastest speed.
>
>The problem with overclocking too much is that it actually makes your Palm run
>SLOWER. This is explained in AfterBurner's HTML doc. The author of AfterBurner
>is not responsible of this (the problem is the Palm hardware), but he is trying
>to find a way to avoid the problem.
>
>A typical TigerMark for a m505 overclocked to 54MHz (like mine!), is slightly
>under 1.40 (might be 1.30 or 1.35 for example).
>
>Higher numbers are suspect.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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