Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 06:48:43 06/09/02
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On June 07, 2002 at 20:20:28, martin fierz wrote: >aloha! > >i've been thinking about porting my checkers program to some mobile platform. i >was just wondering which... can someone tell me what is more popular at the >moment (and for the gurus: how about the near future?), palm or pocket PC? or >anything else? also, am i right in the assumption that on the palm you have much >less resources (ram, cpu power)? > >cheers > martin last August, I was able to get b&w pocket pc for ~$150 = that model was discontinued - and all color 206 Mhz Pocket pc go for about at least $300-350+. you now get a palm for <$100 , run a program such as Afterburner to clock it somewhere between 28-32 Mhz and get a either Genius or Chess Tiger ...Tiger may be slightly stronger - but it's not that much and I'm not 100% positive -- I think most people assume it's stronger - I'm starting a Game/30 round robin between Palm Tiger, Palm Genius, Saphire II, Mehpisto Genius 68030 and Kasparov 2100, Pocket Fritz (Shredder) and Pocket Genius -- Pocket Genius may be the strongest -- it's a more advanced program than the Palm Genius. Pocket Fritz Genius should finish 1-2 as they clearly have the fastest hardware. IMO, I think the Palm meets the general (Non chess players && Non wireless) user needs the best - chess players will like the pocket PC, because it is 10-20x faster than than than Palm. Also remember new Palms (MUCH FASTER!) Palm will be coming out in 6 months - and the Pocket PC will be running at 400 Mhz soon - so I wouldn't spend a lot of money right now on either one - Best Buy is a cheap Palm, with Afterburner and either Chess Tiger or Chess Genius - I would favor Tiger over Genius because it does have more time settings that I like (fischer clock, tournament settings etc - the Genius program is limited to Game in xx or average xx seconds per move) - the Genius program does have a nifty IR capability that allows you to play someone else that also has a Palm and Genius. Genius gets very high marks for simplicity and meeting the Palm programming standard. Ah what the heck - get BOTH - we need to keep these Chess Programmers finanically MOTIVATED!
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