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Subject: Re: ARM version of Chess Tiger for Palm?

Author: Keith Evans

Date: 21:55:15 07/02/03

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On July 02, 2003 at 22:09:53, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On July 02, 2003 at 16:25:47, Michael Conway wrote:
>
>>To take advantage of the new ARM Palms running OS 5, many software developers
>>have programmed native ARM code (ARMlets) to replace their calculation-intensive
>>Motorolla 68k (OS 4) functions.  As this circumvents the Palm 68k interpreter
>>(PACE) built into OS 5, performance increases in ARM processor Palms have been
>>enormous.
>>
>>Are there plans to upgrade Chess Tiger for Palm in this manner?  Would it be
>>very difficult to do?
>
>
>
>Yes, and I'm working on it.
>
>Yes, it is difficult to do. ARMlets are toys, not real programs. For example you
>cannot have global variables in ARMlets.
>
>
>
>    Christophe

You can have global variables on Gameboy. Any chance of Tiger on Gameboy?
(There's already SmarThink on Gameboy - see "Ultimate Brain Games")



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