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Subject: Re: Two small Tcl/Tk questions (now completely off-topic)

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 11:09:41 04/18/02

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On April 18, 2002 at 13:24:36, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On April 18, 2002 at 13:14:11, Roy Eassa wrote:
>
>>That's my goal.  Win32 first, then Linux, then -- surprise! -- Macintosh.
>
>Yay!!! =)
>
>
>>The issue for Macintosh is, I think, that CHEST has not been compiled for that
>>platform yet.  But I have a Mac and an old (but not incredibly old) Metrowerks
>>C/C++ compiler so I plan to give it a shot.
>
>As always, the Mac is a special case:
>
>(1) The new OS (OSX) is Unix-based (BSD-flavour) so it shouldn't be hard to
>compile CHEST. (A GCC-based compiler is available for free from Apple) I think I
>will try to compile CHEST this evening. Also Tk/Tcl are freely available with
>source, so it's not hard to compile this. (I did compile 8.4 some weeks ago, I
>think)
>
>(2) OS9 and below (which is _completely_ different than OSX)
>No idea really :) [I came to Mac 'recently' from NeXT]
>
>
>>I don't know if there are any fast, dedicated chess-problem-solving programs
>>for the Mac.
>
>We have Chessmaster 4000 or something! :)
>
>Sargon


Oh yeah, OS X.  I don't have it and I don't plan to get it.  For that, people
will probably have to use whatever I manage to create for Linux (which I also
don't have).

I was thinking about the classic Mac OS, which is what I use and will target
with a custom GUI if/when I get CHEST to build on the Mac.

(I've been a Mac user since early '88 and have a zillion hours and dollars
invested in older stuff that probably won't work under OS X.  I do NOT have
enough money, time, or interest to re-buy and/or re-install and/or re-configure
the hundreds of tools I've become dependent on over these 14 years.)



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