Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 22:47:16 07/02/03
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On July 03, 2003 at 00:55:15, Keith Evans wrote:
>On July 02, 2003 at 22:09:53, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On July 02, 2003 at 16:25:47, Michael Conway wrote:
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>>>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.
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>> Christophe
>
>You can have global variables on Gameboy. Any chance of Tiger on Gameboy?
>(There's already SmarThink on Gameboy - see "Ultimate Brain Games")
Chess Tiger for PalmOS native ARM code first. Then we will see.
Christophe
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