Author: George Sobala
Date: 11:42:53 08/26/02
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On August 26, 2002 at 12:20:18, Francesco Di Tolla wrote: >There are several solutions > >win4lin >http://www.netraverse.com/products/win4lin30/index.php >vmware >http://www.vmware.com/ > >none of the two supports Direct X hence most games won't run. > >I don't know if Fritz does use Direct X, but I guess Shredder and RebelWin (when >it will be there) will not. > >For a Direct X game the only I know is: http://www.transgaming.com/ which is not >fast in graphics but who cares for chess! > >I have no evidence at all that any of this wille vere run Fritz. > >ciao >Franz VmWare will allow Fritz (and all Windows chess programs) to run perfectly well. However it does so by creating a "virtual computer" on which you have to install a full operating system: in this instance a version of Windows (NT, 95, 98, 2000, XP - whatever). The virtual computer runs in a window within Linux. Performance is excellent for chess programs (VMWare will pass the Intel instructions straight to the processor) - eg see performance of redshift on ICC running on a humble K6-450 with "64M RAM" under Win/NT 4.0 on top of Redhat Linux 6.0 (with 192M real RAM) - currently blitz rating of about 2730 using the "suicide" setting of Gambit Tiger 2.0. VMWare is VERY expensive now however: I bought it a year or two back when hobbyist versions were well priced. They no longer pitch it towards the hobbyist market. Virtual PC allows the same under MacOs - but here the virtual PC actually emulates the Intel instructions, and thus performance for a chess program is abysmal. From what I remember when I looked at this, an 800MHz G4 used this way gives chess performance of about a 150MHz Pentium. I don't know if Chessbase programs work under Wine - which would be a free solution. Never tried.
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