Author: ERIQ
Date: 09:11:45 10/10/02
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On October 10, 2002 at 02:39:16, Daniel Clausen wrote: >On October 09, 2002 at 18:21:08, ERIQ wrote: > >>what about not making a gui at all but just engine to run under xboard this >>would cover all unix boxes to include mac x ! or Chess tiger for that matter. I >>would gladly pay 50 bucks for either one. And if it is to much for any one >>programer what about letting someone else port it over. > >For engines which are not written in assembler, it would be a more or less >trivial task to port them to other OSes/platforms. This is not true for the GUI >though. While using xboard-compatible GUIS (xboard itself is just one of them - >eboard or knights are others) would be ok for people like me, it wouldn't be >acceptable for the average user. > >When you support a platform, there are some minimal costs you have, independant >on how many engines you will sell on that platform. For example, at least one >person in the support department should have heard of said platform. [which is a >bigger requirement than you might think now ;)] The market on non-Windows >platforms is small already. Selling an engine w/o a GUI would cut down sales >even more. The classic chicken-egg problem... sadly > >Sargon Ok but if making port of an engine isn't hard then not much money is spent but I am sure atleast a hundred people would be willing to spend $50.00 on cm9000 engine, or any other in the top five. sorry I fail to see what people have to lose by making a port for unix boxs.
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