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Subject: Re: Mate engine: I need help from experts in Borland-Pascal 7 (for DOS!) ?

Author: Stan Arts

Date: 10:49:11 07/28/02

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On July 28, 2002 at 08:56:48, Steve Maughan wrote:

>Franz,
>
>You need to create a Thread to read the input while the engine is thinking in
>the main Thread.  Unfortunately TP7 is 16 bit and doesn't do Threads so you need
>to upgrade to Delphi 2 - 6 which all handle threads.  You should find that it's
>*really* easy to convert the program to Delphi.  You can even download a
>personal version from www.borland.com so see if it works.
>
>Regards,
>
>Steve Maughan

Besides delphi, you can also choose to use Free Pascal, which is very much like
TP7.0 in use,
and will be able to compile the TP code. Free Pascal is 32 bit and supports all
modern
stuff. :)

http://www.zeus.rug.ac.be/freepascal/fpc.html

Goodluck



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